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Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales.
In 1949, when Samuel Wurtzel opened Ward's--Richmond, Virginia's first retail television store--his goal was to provide the community with a new technology that would change the face of consumer electronics forever.
Jan 14, 2013 · In 1949, Samuel S. Wurtzel opened the first Wards Company retail store in Richmond, VA. By 1959, Wards Company operated four television and home appliance stores in Richmond. Wards Company officially changed its name to Circuit City and became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1984.
- Lorri Freifeld
But led by Wurtzel’s son Alan, who had become CEO in 1972, the company closed or sold a number of unprofitable outlets, and by the late 1970s it was ready to start expanding again. It did so with a new name and a new retail model inspired by the early discount stores: the Circuit City “superstore.”.
Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s.
May 29, 2018 · In 1949, when Samuel Wurtzel opened Ward's — Richmond, Virginia's first retail television store — his goal was to provide the community with a new technology that would change the face of consumer electronics forever. More than 50 years, over 600 stores and several name changes later, the technology continues to change, but Circuit City's ...
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Wurtzel’s father, Sam Wurtzel, opened a television store known as Wards, the first location in the eventual Circuit City empire, in Richmond, Va., in 1950. The idea came to him when he was passing through the city, stopped for a haircut and heard the barber talking about the South’s first television station, which had just debuted there.
