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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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The focus of the store changed in June 1957, and the first Toys "R" Us, dedicated exclusively to toys rather than furniture, was opened by Lazarus in Rockville, Maryland. Lazarus also designed and stylized the Toys "R" Us logo, which featured a backwards "R" to give the impression that a child wrote it. The store chain grew successfully and ...
- Charles Lazarus (original), WHP Global (revival)
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- 5 Wood Hollow Road Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, United States
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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...
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 games,...
By Laurence Arnold. Charles Lazarus, who combined supermarket-style service with touches of whimsy in creating Toys “R” Us Inc., a retail success that fought high debt and fierce competition and finally succumbed just last week, he died. He was 94.
Mar 19, 2018 · Topics. Inventions & Science. Inside the Rise and Fall of Toys ‘R’ Us. The retailer turned everyone into a “Toys ‘R’ Us kid”… by driving its competition out of existence. By: Erin Blakemore....
Mar 22, 2018 · Charles P. Lazarus, who founded Toys “R” Us, the toy store chain that for decades captured the hearts of American consumers but that eventually faded and succumbed to bankruptcy, died on...
