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Sears Roebuck

COMPANY

Founded 1886 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Richard W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck. Under the hand of billionaire Eddie Lampert, K-Mart acquired Sears in 2005 and assumed its name.

Official Website:
http://www.sears.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NASDAQ:SHLD

Corporate headquarters:
Manhattan, NY

Sales:
$50.7B (2007)

Employees:
300,000 (2008)

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dorrit J. Bern
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Charming Shoppes
Edward A. Brennan
Business
16-Jan-1934 27-Dec-2007 CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1984-95
William C. Crowley
Business
c. 1957   CFO of Sears Roebuck
Julian C. Day
Business
14-May-1952   CEO of Radio Shack
David F. Dyer
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Tommy Hilfiger, 2003-06
Anastasia D. Kelly
Attorney
c. 1949   EVP at American International Group
Barbara A. Klein
Business
c. 1954   CFO of CDW
Alan J. Lacy
Business
19-Oct-1953   CEO of Sears, 2000-05
Aylwin Lewis
Business
28-May-1954   CEO of Sears
Edward M. Liddy
Business
28-Jan-1946   Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Arthur C. Martinez
Business
1939   CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1995-2000
Lawrence J. Mosner
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Deluxe Corporation, 2000-05
Saiyid T. Naqvi
Business
c. 1949   President, Harley-Davidson Finance
Alice M. Peterson
Business
c. 1952   Syrus Global
Philip J. Purcell
Business
5-Sep-1943   CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005
Alvah C. Roebuck
Business
9-Jun-1864 18-Jun-1948 Sears Roebuck founder
Julius Rosenwald
Business
12-Aug-1862 6-Jan-1932 Sears executive and Good Samaritan
William L. Salter
Business
c. 1943   Former Sears executive
Richard W. Sears
Business
7-Dec-1863 28-Sep-1914 Sears, Roebuck founder
James D. Thornton
Business
c. 1949   Senior EVP at MBNA
Thomas J. Wilson
Business
c. 1957   CEO of Allstate
Robert E. Wood
Business
13-Jun-1879 6-Nov-1969 Chairman of Sears, 1939-54

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William C. Crowley
Business
c. 1957   CFO of Sears Roebuck
Eddie Lampert
Business
19-Jul-1962   Billionaire, Chairman of Sears
Aylwin Lewis
Business
28-May-1954   CEO of Sears
Steven T. Mnuchin
Business
c. 1963   Dune Capital Management
Richard C. Perry
Business
c. 1955   Perry Capital
Ann N. Reese
Business
c. 1952   CFO of ITT, 1995-98
Emily Scott
Business
c. 1962   CEO of J. Crew, 1983-2003
Thomas J. Tisch
Business
c. 1955   Four Partners Investment Partnership

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edward A. Brennan
Business
16-Jan-1934 27-Dec-2007 CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1984-95
Jim Cantalupo
Business
14-Nov-1943 19-Apr-2004 CEO of McDonald's, 2002-04
Donald J. Carty
Business
23-Jun-1946   CEO of American Airlines, 1998-2003
Alston D. Correll
Business
28-Apr-1941   CEO of Georgia-Pacific, 1993-2005
Julian C. Day
Business
14-May-1952   CEO of Radio Shack
W. James Farrell
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Illinois Tool Works, 1995-2005
Alan J. Lacy
Business
19-Oct-1953   CEO of Sears, 2000-05
Arthur C. Martinez
Business
1939   CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1995-2000
Michael A. Miles
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Philip Morris, 1991-94
Richard C. Notebaert
Business
1947   CEO of Qwest, 2002-07
Hugh B. Price
Activist
1941   President of the Urban League, 1994-2003
Julius Rosenwald
Business
12-Aug-1862 6-Jan-1932 Sears executive and Good Samaritan
Donald Rumsfeld
Government
9-Jul-1932   US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06
Patrick G. Ryan
Business
15-May-1937   CEO of Aon, 1982-2005
Dorothy A. Terrell
Business
12-Jun-1945   VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002
Robert E. Wood
Business
13-Jun-1879 6-Nov-1969 Chairman of Sears, 1939-54
Raul Yzaguirre
Activist
22-Jul-1939   National Council of La Raza

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Novelist
1-Sep-1875 19-Mar-1950 Tarzan
William L. Davis
Business
c. 1943   CEO of RR Donnelley, 1997-2004
William T. Dillard
Business
2-Sep-1914 8-Feb-2002 Founder of Dillard's
Dusty Foggo
Government
17-Mar-1954   CIA Executive Director, 2004-06
Harry C. Gambill
Business
c. 1948   CEO of TransUnion
Bruce L. Hammonds
Business
?   CEO of MBNA, 2003-05
Rosie O'Donnell
Talk Show Host
21-Mar-1962   The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Craig P. Omtvedt
Business
c. 1949   CFO of Fortune Brands
John L. Orr
Criminal
26-Apr-1949   California arson investigator, arsonist
Jack A. Smith
Business
c. 1935   Founder of Sports Authority

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Henry Dreyfuss
Inventor
2-Mar-1904 5-Oct-1972 Product designer, human factors engineer
C. Robert Kidder
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Borden Chemical, 1995-2002
Hersh Kozlov
Attorney
15-Nov-1947   Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lauren Hutton
Model
17-Nov-1944   Paper Lion and American Gigolo
Arnold Palmer
Golf
10-Sep-1929   Won 61 PGA tournaments
Ty Pennington
TV Personality
19-Oct-1965   Carpenter on Trading Spaces
Stefanie Powers
Actor
2-Nov-1942   Hart to Hart
Bob Vila
TV Personality
20-Jun-1946   Former host of This Old House
Billy Dee Williams
Actor
6-Apr-1937   Lando Calrissian, Colt-45 malt liquor pitchman


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