[...] Neiman Marcus is a luxury specialty retail department store, operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and competes with other exclusive department stores such as Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, and Bloomingdale’s. The Neiman Marcus Group also operates the exclusive Bergdorf Goodman specialty retail department stores on Fifth Avenue in New York City and a direct marketing division, Neiman Marcus Direct, which operates catalogue and online operations under the Horchow, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman names. HistoryHerbert Marcus, Sr., a former buyer with Dallas’ Sanger Bros. department store, had left his previous job to found a new business with his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, A. L. Neiman, then employees of Sanger Brothers competitor A. Harris. In 1907 the trio found themselves with $25,000 from the success of sales promotion, they have built in Atlanta, Georgia, and two potential investments in which funds to invest. The choice to reject the unknown "sugary soft drinks business," the three leaders chose instead to return to Dallas to start a retail business, rather than take a chance on the young Coca-Cola . For this reason, the small business CEO Stanley Marcus was quoted in 1957 as saying jokingly that Neiman Marcus was "founded on bad business decision." Thus, the store was established on September 10 1907.In 1913, a fire destroyed the Neiman Marcus store and its merchandise. A temporary store has been created and opened in just 17 days. In 1914, Neiman Marcus opened in its new, permanent, on Main Street, Dallas Ervay Street. With the opening of the flagship store, Neiman Marcus increased its product selection to include accessories, lingerie and children's clothing, as well as the expansion of women's clothing department. In 1929, it began offering menswear. (The building of the main street, which many now call the "original" Neiman Marcus, received the historic status of the Texas Historical Commission in 1982.) In 1927, Neiman Marcus Creating the first week parade fashion retail in the United States. The store hosted a special broadcast, "One Hundred Years of Texas Fashions," in 1936 in honor of the centennial of Texas independence from Mexico. A 1957 profile of the store, "Neiman Marcus of Texas", describes the "grandiose and elaborate" gala, noting: "This is where one of the largest customers store, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, expressing the feeling of the shop in the eyes starry clientele, told the local press: "I dreamed my whole life of the perfect store for women. Then I saw Neiman-Marcus, and my dream has become reality. "In the 1950s and 60 Gittings operated a portrait studio Neiman Marcus. Clients included Lyndon Johnson, Howard Hughes and the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family.In 1969, the first outside of Neiman Marcus in Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex opened in Houston, as a store and became independent an anchor in the Houston Galleria in 1970. In 1971, the first Neiman Marcus outside Texas opened in Bal Harbor, Florida. Over the years, stores have been opened in over 30 cities across the United States, including Chicago, Atlanta, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Boston and Las Vegas.In the 1990s, the company opened a small shop concept called the "Neiman Marcus Galleries, which sold jewelry, gifts and accessories. The concept of evil and, ultimately, all three locations, Seattle, Cleveland and Phoenix, has been closed. Some believe that the sites were wrong and Neiman Marcus have mentioned the concept could be revived. In 1999, neimanmarcus.com, and shop online gift registry, started under the control of Neiman Marcus Group Neiman Marcus Direct division.On January 22, 2002, Neiman Marcus and the fashion community worldwide has mourned the death of Stanley Marcus, who had served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Marcus was the architect behind many of the store's most famous innovation, including fashion shows, New York strictly advertising for a regional channel, in-store art exhibitions, and the catalog of Christmas with It's bizarre and Hers gift including vicuna coat, a pair of aircraft, "Noah's Ark" (including pairs of animals), camels, and live tigers.Long since the retirement of his presidency of the company, Stanley Marcus has been one of the last links with its ownership.Over last 20 years, ownership of Neiman Marcus has gone through several hands. In June 1987 the company was spun-off from her parents in detail, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, and became a publicly traded company. General Cinema, which later became Harcourt General, approximately 60% interest until 1999, when Neiman Marcus was completely turned off from its parent company. On 2 May 2005, Neiman Marcus Group has been the subject of a leveraged takeover (LBO), the sale itself to two private investment Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus. Neiman Marcus todayUnlike many of his contemporaries department store, Neiman Marcus is still in operation today under the original name and is still headquartered in the city where he started. The Neiman Marcus Group includes the division of retail stores - which includes Neiman Marcus stores and Bergdorf Goodman - cusp (a contemporary boutique format) and the direct marketing division, Neiman Marcus Direct. These retailers offer upscale assortments of apparel, accessories, jewelry, beauty products and home decoration. The company operates 38 stores across the Neiman Marcus in the United States and two Bergdorf Goodman stores in Manhattan. Neiman Marcus is the largest MSA South Florida, where they operate five stores. The company also operates 20 clearance centers and three Last Call Horchow Finale Outlets furniture. These storage operations totaling more than five million square feet (500,000 m²) gross. Competitors in the luxury segment retail include Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and Barneys New York.Neiman Marcus Direct, produces the printed catalog and online operations under the Neiman Marcus, Horchow and Bergdorf Goodman brand names. Under the Neiman Marcus brand, Neiman Marcus Direct primarily offers women's clothing, accessories and household furniture. Horchow offers upscale furnishings, bedding, decorative accessories and table items. They also launched a new blog with the latest news in the world of fashion and beyond.Until recently, The Neiman Marcus Group ownership interest in Kate Spade LLC, a manufacturer of handbags and accessories. In October 2006, the Company acquired all the minority interests of 59.4 million dollars in November 2006 and sold the property to 100% of Liz Claiborne, Inc. for approximately $ 121.5 million. Another was the sale of a majority stake in Gurwitch Products LLC, which manufactures Laura Mercier cosmetics for Alticor Inc., for approximately $ 40.8 million.Neiman Marcus sold its credit card business to HSBC store in mid-2005, however, Neiman Marcus continued on HSBC taxes and interest rates in March 2008. The lawsuit was settled in May 2008. Notably, 50% of the Neiman transactions are using their private-label cards because Neiman Marcus agrees that property rights will store cards, credit cards American Express, cash or by check for purchases in their retail stores. (Cependant, entre automne 2005 et la mi-2006, Neiman Marcus brièvement testé l'acceptation des cartes Visa et MasterCard à un magasin dans le Missouri, ainsi que dans plusieurs restaurants en magasin en Californie, et Neiman Marcus a accepté toutes les principales cartes Online credit purchases from their web site opened in 1999). According to the 26 April 2007 The Wall Street Journal, Neiman Marcus quietly testing a co-brand credit card issued by HSBC with some of their best customers. The card, which runs on the American Express network is supposed to have been launched in 2008, at times, but settled the dispute between HSBC and Neiman Marcus May have delayed the new co-brand card full launch.Since in 1939, Neiman Marcus has issued an annual catalog of Christmas, which gets a lot of free publicity from the national press for a tradition of unusual and extravagant gifts not sold in its stores. Some have included "his and hers" the subject of a point, travel and cars (see below), to name a few. The showroom of Neiman MarcusIn fall 2004, Neiman Marcus has launched a new store within a store concept, the showroom of Neiman Marcus. This new department is dedicated to selling high-end furnishings and collections previously available only through Neiman Marcus catalogs companion, The Horchow Collection and NM by Mail. 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