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Geisse was born on September 1, 1920, [2] in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of aeronautical inventor John Harlin and Esther (née Wattawa) Geisse. [3] He grew up in the Washington, D.C., area [3] and attended St. John's College High School. [4] He was set to graduate from the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1942, [1] [5] [6] until ...
Target's president, Douglas J. Dayton, went back to the parent Dayton Corporation and was succeeded by William A. Hodder. Senior vice-president and founder John Geisse left the company. Geisse was later hired by St. Louis-based May Department Stores, where he founded the Venture Stores chain. Target Stores ended the year with eleven units and ...
Jun 12, 2020 · Venture Stores was a discount department store chain founded by Target creator John Geisse and May Company Executive Dave Babcock. Borrowing heavily from his...
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Geisse is the author of The Better Quality Upscale Discount Store Concept in America. He left Dayton in 1968 and soon joined the May Company and headed up the launching of their own upscale discount division, Venture Stores. He left May Co. in 1975, moved to Indianapolis, and was the chairman and CEO of Ayr-Way Stores from 1976 to 1977.
Feb 21, 2022 · What if I told you the man who co-founded Target was forgotten? Even his own company doesn't know his name. Millions of people have shopped at Target, but fe...
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Aug 18, 2009 · John Geisse was full of life and it showed in our first meeting. As he revealed to a group of us what the membership warehouse concept was all about – a new retail idea formulated by Sol Price on the west coast – we were already drooling at the opportunity to be involved on the ground floor of a business that was sure to succeed.
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Father of ten children. John F. Geisse (died Feb 21, 1992 aged 71) was a pioneer in mass merchandising. Geisse is the author of the Better Quality Upscale Discount Store Concept in America and was inducted into Discount Store News Discount Hall of Fame in 1984. Geisse launched three successful retail chains.
