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Spencer Gifts LLC, doing business as Spencer's, is a North American mall retailer with over 600 stores in the United States and Canada. It offers rock and roll clothing, custom T-shirts, band merchandise, Playboy decor and apparel, sex toys, gag gifts, room decor, collectible figures, fashion and body jewelry, and fantasy and horror items. The company also operates the Spirit Halloween line of temporary Halloween retailers. ==History== Spencer Gifts was originally founded in 1947 in Easton, Pennsylvania by Max Spencer Adler as a mail-order catalog that sold an assortment of novelty merchandise. In 1960, Max's brother Harry Adler, who had been with the company since 1947, sold his shares and left. In 1963, Spencer Gifts opened its first retail store in the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where it operates to this day. After opening approximately 450 stores under the name Spencer Gifts, Adler merged Spencer Gifts with entertainment conglomerate MCA in 1967. At some point later, the store began to be referred to as "Spencer's". In 1990, Spencer Gifts closed its mail-order catalog division. In 1993 and 1996, respectively, Spencer Gifts acquired the DAPY line of stores and opened its first GLOW! store. The DAPY and GLOW! trademarks were retired sometime before 2007. In 1995, MCA was acquired by Seagram Company Ltd. and was renamed Universal Studios. Spencer Gifts began to operate Universal Studios stores as a subsidiary of its parent company. In 1997, Spencer Gifts opened its first store in Canada. In 1999, Spencer's acquired a Halloween seasonal retailer, Spirit Halloween. In 2000, Spencer's expanded into the United Kingdom. The chain opened up to fourteen stores in the United Kingdom before closing them sometime in the mid-2000s. In 2001, Vivendi acquired Universal Studios and rebranded the entire organization as Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Less than two years later, in 2003, GB Palladin, a joint venture between Gordon Brothers Group and Palladin Capital Group, acquired Spencer Gifts from Vivendi. Steven Silverstein became Spencer Gifts' CEO and also the CEO and president of Spirit Halloween. In the fall of 2004, Spencer Gifts began its store redesign by opening four new stores in Deptford, New Jersey, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Concord, New Hampshire and Des Moines, Iowa. In 2005, Spencer's opened its first store in Puerto Rico at Plaza Carolina. The chain had three more stores on the island located in Plaza del Norte, Montehiedra Town Center and Las Catalinas Mall. As of 2015, all of its Puerto Rican outlets appear to be closed. In 2006, Spencer's began its "Spirit of Children" program, which raises donations through its Spirit Halloween stores for, and hosts Halloween parties in, children's hospitals in Canada and the United States. Since 2007, the program has raised over $16 million for over 130 children's hospitals. Acon Investments acquired the company in 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spencer Gifts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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