Business quickly picked up. The business continued to grow, and in the partners opened a second store in Seattle. By , however, year-old John Nordstrom had decided to retire from the shoe business, and passed on his share to his sons Everett and Elmer.
Carl Wallin retired the following year and likewise sold his share to the next generation of Nordstroms. In the shoe stores were renamed Nordstrom's. In John Nordstrom's youngest son, Lloyd, joined the partnership. The business that John Nordstrom left was substantially larger than the one he started back in It was up to the next generation of Nordstroms, however, to build on their father's success.
In the Nordstrom brothers doubled the size of their downtown Seattle store. The shoe stores survived the Depression, but faced another severe threat during World War II, when leather rationing prohibited U. The Nordstrom brothers had to search nationwide for supplies of shoes. In the postwar decades, the Nordstrom brothers built the company into the largest independent shoe chain in the United States.
In the Nordstroms opened two new shoe stores: one in Portland, Oregon, and one in a Seattle suburb--the latter located at Northgate Mall, the nation's first shopping mall. Nine years later, Nordstrom remodeled its Seattle flagship store, and stocked it with , pairs of shoes--the biggest inventory in the country.
By Nordstrom operated eight shoe stores and 13 leased shoe departments in Washington, Oregon, and California. In the early s, the Nordstrom brothers came to a crossroads of sorts. Spurred by their success, they were convinced that their business could expand. The brothers were unsure whether they should simply expand their shoe business to the East and South or branch out into other areas of retailing. The brothers chose to diversify, and purchased Best Apparel, a Seattle-based women's clothing store, in With the addition of apparel outlets, the company expanded rapidly.
In the Nordstroms opened a new Best Apparel store adjacent to a Nordstrom shoe store in suburban Seattle. In the company acquired a Portland retail fashion outlet, Nicholas Ungar, and merged it with the Nordstrom shoe store in Portland, which was renamed Nordstrom Best. In the late s, the modern Nordstrom department store began to take shape.
Between and , the company opened five stores that combined apparel and shoes. The firm diversified further in these years, as Nordstrom Best began to sell men's and children's clothing as well. In Everett Nordstrom turned 65, and he and his two brothers decided to turn over the reins of the company to the next generation of Nordstroms.
McMillan, and family friend Robert E. Bender--took control of the company. In August the company went public, offering Nordstrom Best stock on the over-the-counter market. Family members retained a majority of the stock, however. That same year saw the opening of the first Nordstrom Rack, an outlet store used to move old inventories at discount prices.
It was located in the basement of the downtown Seattle store. The firm continued to grow steadily throughout the s by opening new stores, increasing volume in existing stores, and diversifying. The following year, Nordstrom bought three stores in Alaska. In the firm launched a new division, Place Two, which featured, in smaller stores, a selected offering of men's and women's apparel and shoes. In Nordstrom expanded into the southern California market, opening an outlet in Orange County.
Buoyed by the success, Nordstrom's executives charted an aggressive expansion program, and began to open bigger stores in California. Their late s confidence presaged a decade of phenomenal, but controlled, growth. In a new expansion plan called for 25 new stores to be added in the s, and the Nordstroms projected that both earnings and total square footage would double by The projection was not sufficiently optimistic.
In Nordstrom established Nordstrom Rack as its third division, now consisting of a string of outlet stores. The chain's biggest growth area, however, was in the huge California market. By there were seven Nordstrom stores in that state. Five years later, Nordstrom had 22 full-size stores in California. Nordstrom increasingly came to be recognized as an efficient, upscale, full-service department store. Its aggressive customer service plainly brought results. The firm consistently maintained the highest sales per square foot of retail space ratios in the industry, nearly twice those of other department stores.
Nordstrom's success was due to a variety of factors. Throughout its existence, shoes accounted for a good deal of the firm's sales--about 18 percent in Throughout the s and s, expansion of the now-department store continued nationwide. In , the third generation of Nordstroms stepped down, passing the store to their sons.
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