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Breuners Home Furnishings
Breuners Home Furnishings or Breuners is an online furniture company that was a chain of brick and mortar furniture stores in the United States for 148 years before declaring bankruptcy in 2004.〔(Company History ), Breuners.com, access date September 10, 2008〕
Founded in California during the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century, its stores served California and Nevada before expanding to the east coast in the late 20th century.〔(Obituaries ), Stanford Alumni Magazine, September/October 2005, access date August 10, 2008〕 In 2004 the company declared bankruptcy,〔(Company News; Breuners Home Furnishings files for bankruptcy ), ''New York Times'', July 15, 2004, access date September 8, 2008〕 closed all its retail stores, and now operates solely through the Internet.〔(Breuners Company History ), access date September 8, 2008〕
==History==
The store was founded in 1856 by William Robert “Bill” Breuner’s great-grandfather〔 John Breuner (1828–1890) to cater to prospectors during the California Gold Rush.〔(Genealogical Society marks 110 years of researching family ), by Anallee Allen, ''Oakland Tribune'', February 28, 2008, access date August 15, 2008〕 The first store opened in Sacramento, California with subsequent branches in Oakland, San Francisco and later throughout California and Nevada. The company went public in 1968 under Bill Breuner.〔 Breuner sold the company in the 1970s〔(Obituary: Beth Breuner Grebitus was civic pillar in Sacramento ), by Robert D Dávila, ''Sacramento Bee'', August 6, 2008, access date August 12, 2008〕 and it was acquired by Marshall Fields in 1983.〔 At its height Breuners operated 40 retail outlets.〔 The stores were large bigboxes around .〔(Former Breuners to receive a makeover ), by Christine Morente, ''Oakland Tribune'', January 24, 2007, access date August 15, 2008〕 By the 1990s the company was based in San Diego and in 1995 expanded into the New York and New Jersey markets by acquiring Huffman Koos’ 13 stores for 36.9 million dollars.〔(Company News; Breuners Home Furnishings to acquire Huffman Koos ), ''New York Times'', September 20, 1995, access date August 15, 2008〕 Breuners also owned Good’s Furniture stores.〔(Company News; Breuners Home Furnishings files for bankruptcy ), New York Times, July 15, 2004, access date September 10, 2008〕
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