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Jun 9, 2020 · Way back in 1947, two men by the name of Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles founded Popular Merchandise, a low-price clothing company that catered to women. Fast-forward to 1983, when Popular...
In 1947, Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles founded Popular Merchandise, Inc., a store that did business as Popular Club Plan and sold low-priced women's clothing marketed through in-home demonstrations. Throughout the mid-1980s, sales from catalog operations grew rapidly.
1947: Popular Merchandise, Inc. is founded by Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles to sell low-priced women's clothing through in-home demonstrations. 1983: The first J. Crew catalog is mailed to customers. 1985: Clifford & Wills women's clothing catalog is launched. 1989: Company changes its name to J. Crew Group, Inc.
Flickr. It grew from a door-to-door clothing operation called the Popular Sale Club founded by Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles in 1947 to a company valued at $2.78 billion with total revenues...
Oct 1, 2022 · James Keyser/Getty Images. J. Crew's predecessor, Popular Club Plan, was founded by Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles. In 1983, Cinader's son, Arthur, and daughter, Emily, launched the J. Crew...
Oct 17, 2018 · Popular Merchandise, Inc. is founded by Mitchell Cinader and Saul Charles. 1983 Popular Merchandise Inc. becomes known as J. Crew, Inc. and mails its first catalog.
Oct 14, 2017 · Arthur Cinader, who died in 2017, was the founder of the J.Crew brand and a cousin of Saul Charles, a trustee of his father's catalog business. He was a pioneer of multichannel retailing and a lover of skiing, literature and Shakespeare.
