Kuppenheimer

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Kuppenheimer
company_
fate = Bankruptcy
foundation = 1876
defunct = 1997
location = Chicago, Illinois later Atlanta, Georgia
industry = Clothing manufacturer & Retail
key_people = Bernard Kuppenheimer, founder
products = Fashion apparel
num_employees =
parent = Hartmarx later Men's Wearhouse
subsid =

B. Kuppenheimer & Co., or simply Kuppenheimer, was a mens clothing manufacturing and retail operation based in Chicago, Illinois and later Atlanta, Georgia. Bernard Kuppenheimer and his son started the firm in 1876, after having been a partner in the Chicago clothing firm of Kohn, Claybugh & Einstein. In 1906, the firm operated "The House of Kuppenheimer" branches in Boston and New York, with sales in Washington, D.C. handled by Isidor Grosner of 1013 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. [Display Ad, "The Washington Post", Nov 25, 1906, p. 8.] The company grew to employ close to 2,000 men and women at shops around Chicago in 1910. [ [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2746.html Encyclopedia of Chicago, Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) Entries: Kuppenheimer (B.) & Co. (accessed Sep 1, 2008)] ]

In March 1963, the firm was purchased by Louis Roth & Co., Inc. of Los Angeles for $3 million. ["Kuppenheimer Sold," "The Washington Post, Times Herald" Mar 24, 1963, p. A25.] The firm continued as a leading manufacturer of men's clothing until 1982, when it was purchased by Hart Schaffner & Marx (later Hartmarx). By the mid-1990s, after the headquarters moved to Atlanta, sales were lagging, many of its stores were closing, and it entered into bankruptcy. Hartmarx completed the divestiture of its retail operations when it sold the company in 1995, to an intermediate investment group. The Men's Wearhouse purchased the bankrupt Kuppenheimer in 1997, who closed many more Kuppenheimer stores and eventually folded the Kuppenheimer business into its own by liquidating the remaining assets. [ [http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1997/03/03/daily5.html "Men's Wearhouse to liquidate remaining Kuppenheimer stores," "Atlanta Business Chronicle," March 4, 1997] .]

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