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The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905.
In 1899, David May, the founder of May Department Stores, acquired E. R. Hull & Dutton Co. of Cleveland on Ontario Street, renaming it May Company, Cleveland. In 1914 May added an additional landmark building on Euclid Avenue, fronting on the southeast corner of Public Square.
A well-established Cleveland department store called E.R. Hull & Dutton Company had fallen into hard economic times. High inventories and mounting debt forced its-owners to liquidate their merchandise and negotiate a buyout.
- Richard Klein
- Cleveland
- 2014
The May Company's downtown store ultimately closed in January 1993, and its remaining stores were rebranded Kaufmann's, at the time a May-owned department store with Pittsburgh roots. The bulk of the building lay vacant for many years after the store closed.
Jun 11, 2018 · In the early 1990s, The May Department Stores Company continued to expand its reach through the acquisition of stores around the country, consolidating them into one of May ’ s own companies, depending on the geographic region in which they were situated.
Jul 24, 2019 · Then the Federal Trade Commission forced Federated, May, and other big department store groups to sign consent decrees that prohibited them from buying other department stores, usually for at least ten years. This drove them all to look at discount stores, grocery stores, and specialty retailers.
On October 17, 1992, May Company California's parent, May Department Stores, announced the merger of May Company California with its sister company J.W. Robinson's to form Robinsons-May, thus ending the May Company California existence.
