Federated Department Stores Inc. is selling 10 of its mall stores, including three in Maryland, to Boscov's Inc., a family-run department store chain based in Reading, Pa., the companies said ...

Retailing giant Federated Department Stores Inc. reported a 10% increase in fiscal third-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street expectations as strong October sales offset a slow start to the ...

Federated Department Stores Inc., owner of Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, has agreed to acquire May Department Stores Co., operator of Hecht’s and Lord & Taylor, for about $10.4 billion ...

Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to double its size by acquiring May Department Stores Co. in what amounts to an $11 billion bet that department stores have a future even as consumers ...

Soon after Federated Department Stores agreed to acquire the May Department Store Company in March 2005, Castle Hill Apparel, a mid-sized Seventh Avenue firm, faced the threat of becoming as ...

Federated Stores Inc. is developing a new, more centralized buying strategy that could save it millions of dollars and enable it to reduce prices. But the approach, which is central to Federated`s ...

Disappointing sales at the former May Department Stores Inc. chain, including Marshall Field’s, are beginning to take their toll on parent Federated Department Stores Inc. Citigroup Global ...

Federated Department Stores Inc. said it would close five distribution centers, affecting as many as 750 jobs, as it strove to cut costs and realign its Macy’s division after the acquisition of ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Federated Department Stores Inc. said Thursday its December sales at stores open at least one year rose 4.4%. Analysts, on average, had expected it to post a same-store ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Federated Department Stores Inc. said Thursday March same-store sales, or sales generated at stores open at least a year, rose 3.4%. Total sales for the five weeks ended ...