Strouss

Strouss was a department store serving the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Strouss

Industry	Retail Department Store
Defunct	1986
Fate	Merged by the May Company with Kaufmann's
Successor	Kaufmann's (1986-2005) Macy's (2006-present)
Headquarters	Youngstown, Ohio
Key people	C.J. Strouss
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products and housewares
Parent	May Company

History

Strouss-Kaufmann's transition logo

The company was founded as Strouss-Hirshberg Co. by Isaac Strouss and Bernard Hirshberg, two young Americans of Jewish descent.^[1] It was long the leading department store in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys. Under the ownership of May Department Stores, which purchased Strouss in 1947, its name was shortened to Strouss and was expanded throughout northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania under the leadership of C.J. Strouss, then president of Strouss. In 1986, May Company made a corporate decision to consolidate the Strouss division into Kaufmann's. May promptly shut down many of its former locations in 1987 in part due to the depressed economy of the Youngstown metropolitan area and a strategic decision by May Company to focus on mall-only retail locations within the Kaufmann's division.

See also

• List of department stores converted to Macy's