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  1. Charles Philip Lazarus (October 4, 1923 – March 22, 2018) was an American entrepreneur, executive, and pioneer within the retail toy industry.Lazarus founded the Toys "R" Us retail chain, which evolved from a children's furniture store he originally opened in Washington, D.C. in 1948.

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  2. Mar 22, 2018 · March 22, 2018. Charles P. Lazarus, who founded ToysRUs, the toy store chain that for decades captured the hearts of American consumers but that eventually faded and succumbed to ...

  3. Mar 22, 2018 · The man who founded Toys R Us - the children's toy retailer - has died aged 94, one week after his company announced it was closing its doors. Charles Lazarus began selling toys in 1957 in large ...

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  5. Mar 22, 2018 · Toys 'R' Us founder dies at 94. Charles Lazarus, who founded Toys "R" Us 70 years ago, died Thursday, a week after the company announced it will be forced to shut down its U.S. operations. Lazarus ...

  6. Sep 19, 2017 · Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus has died. Here’s how he built — and lost — an empire. The 60-year-old American toy store chain intially chose to sell or close all 800 of its U.S. stores ...

  7. Mar 22, 2018 · Charles Lazarus, who transformed his father’s Washington bicycle business into Toys R Us, a retail giant that rivaled Santa Claus’s workshop as one of the world’s largest distributors of ...

  8. Mar 22, 2018 · ToysRUs founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94. By Laurence Arnold. Published 1:13 PM PDT, March 22, 2018. Charles Lazarus, who combined supermarket-style service with touches of whimsy in creating ToysRUs Inc., a retail success that fought high debt and fierce competition and finally succumbed just last week, he died. He was 94.

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