Sears

Sears Holdings Corporation was created by the mega-merger of department store retailers Sears, Roebuck and Kmart Holding Corp. in 2005. ESL Investments owns about 42% of Sears Holdings. The company is now the sixth largest retailer in the United States and has nearly 4,000 retail locations. The company's stock is traded on NASDAQ under the call letters SHLD and is ranked in the S&P 500 and as 48th on the "FORTUNE" 500.http://www.hoovers.com/company/Sears_Holdings_Corporation/rykkjji-1.html

The company operates as primarily a retail operation that sells merchandise in Canada and the United States. The retail outlets sell third party offerings as well as their own brand labels including Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Kenmore, DieHard and Craftsman. Products include clothing, home appliances, automotive accessories, tools, groceries, domestic goods, beauty products and footwear.http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SHLD+Profile

The company's main retail web site is Sears.com. For investor information from the parent company Sears Holdings, the investor site is located at [1].

Sears, Roebuck & Co. was founded primarily as a catalog to for rural Americans to buy things not found in the local general store. The business was incorporated in 1893, and the following year, the extensive catalog contained more than 300 pages and the following year the catalog added another 200 pages. The first Sears retail store was founded in 1925.http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=SHLD+Profile

1. Kmart
2. Orchard Supply Hardware
3. Sears stores
4. Land's End
5. Craftsman
6. DieHard
7. Kenmore
8. Joe Boxer
9. Martha Stewart Everyday