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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; 76 years ago (as Popular Merchandise, Inc.), 1983 (as J.Crew)
- US$2.54 billion (2019)
- 9,400 (2019)
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...
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 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 · Saul Charles, a co-founder of the J.Crew brand and a pioneer of multichannel retailing, passed away at the age of 90. He was a partner of the Rye, New York catalog business that became J.Crew, and a board member of the Vail ski resort. He was also an influential figure in fashion, a ski lover and a philanthropist.