Beall II became president of the corporation-the third generation. developed the new chain while his father ran the original downtown store until just prior to his death in 1979.ĭuring the 1960s and 1970s Florida experienced amazing growth and Bealls stores grew with it. In 1957, the second Bealls Department store was opened in Bradenton's Westgate Shopping Center and a third store followed in 1961 at the Venice Shopping Center in Venice, Florida. Air conditioning and an influx of new residents in the 1950s began to transform the face of Florida. They christened the business Bealls Department Store. In 1946, Robert was joined by his son E.R. In 1944 after paying off his debts he managed to repurchase the company.īealls Stores Bealls (Florida) store in 2007. He stayed on as manager through the depression. Hard hit and unable to pay his debts, Robert Beall lost his business to the bank. The Florida boom ended in a few years, only to be followed by the stock market crash. Business prospered during the Florida land boom of the 1920s and in a few years Beall had purchased a vacant lot and built a new modern department store which opened in Christmas of 1924. In 1920 the store was renamed to V-Dollar Limit Store as the maximum price went up to five dollars. opened a dry goods store in Bradenton, Florida called "Dollar Limit" he invested his entire savings in merchandise and empty wooden packing crates were used as the display tables. However, in 2022 they sold the rights to the Stage Stores chains (excluding Bealls) to BrandX.
They also acquired the rights to all of Stage's different chains, private labels, customer lists and a distribution center in Jacksonville, Texas. However, in 2020, Bealls bought Stage Stores intellectual property and acquired the rights to the Bealls name nationwide. īealls Florida was not affiliated with the Texas-based Bealls chain (formerly owned by Stage Stores), although the two brands overlapped in some markets with Bealls Outlet using the name Burkes Outlet where they overlapped. ˈ b ɛ l z/ is an American retail corporation with headquarters located in Bradenton, Florida, since its founding in 1915, the family-owned corporation now operates more than 650 stores under the names of bealls, Bealls Florida, Home Centric and Rugged Earth Outfitters. The Bealls store in Marble Falls has been closed for over two years now.Bealls Inc. The clearance sale will happen over the summer.īurkes Outlet and Home Centric are sister brands owned by Bealls Inc. “We are very excited.”Īlthough no firm dates have been announced, Garcia said the new store should be open by September. “It will be a lot more than we have now,” Garcia continued. The new combination clothing and home store will offer furniture and an expanded selection of decor. “We are going to start the new store with all-new merchandise.” “First, the whole store is going on clearance,” she said. It will become a Burkes Outlet and Home Centric, store manager Vida Garcia said. The Marble Falls Burkes Outlet is moving and expanding its merchandise, but before that happens, the store plans a huge clearance sale.Ĭurrently located at 1202 RR 1431, Burkes will move into the old Bealls building at 1400 RR 1431 West, across from H-E-B.
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