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![]() Macy's, Inc. headquarters, located on Macy's Herald Square (2018) | |
Formerly | Federated Department Stores, Inc. (1929–2007) |
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Company type | Public |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1929Columbus, Ohio, U.S. | in
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 722 (2022) |
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Key people | Tony Spring (chairman and CEO) |
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Number of employees | ~130,000 (2019) |
Parent | Campeau Corporation (1988–1992) |
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Website | macysinc |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
Macy's, Inc. (previously Federated Department Stores, Inc.) is an American holding company of department stores. Upon its establishment in 1929, Federated held ownership of the regional department store chains Abraham & Straus, Lazarus, Filene's, and Shillito's. Bloomingdale's joined Federated Department Stores the next year. Throughout its early history, frequent acquisitions and divestitures saw the company operate a number of nameplates. In 1994, Federated took over Macy's, the old department store chain originally founded in 1858 by American entrepreneur Rowland Hussey Macy. Despite Federated's long history of preserving regional nameplates, its acquisition of The May Department Stores Company in 2005 marked the end of those nameplates. By the following year, both the Macy's and Bloomingdale's brands had replaced them nationwide. Ultimately, Federated itself was renamed Macy's, Inc. in 2007, an acknowledgment of the the old store's venerable name.
Macy's, Inc. owns the department store chains Bloomingdale's and Macy's, and beauty store chain Bluemercury, all of which operate flagship stores in Manhattan. As of October 2022[update], it operates 722 locations in the United States, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The company was the world's largest fashion goods retailer and the 36th-largest retailer overall in 2010.[3] Macy's, Inc. has been headquartered within Macy's Herald Square in New York City since 2020, and was previously headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1945 until 2020.