Kohl’s is an American department store retail chain, operated by Kohl’s Corporation. The first Kohl’s store was a corner grocery store opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1927 by Maxwell Kohl.
The company acquired the Chicago-based department store chain Bradlees in 1986 and the Montgomery Ward chain in 2000. It is the second-largest department store chain in the United States as of February 2013
Kohl’s is headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The company operates 1,162 stores[3] in 49 states as of November 1, 2019. Kohl’s has a total of 18 distribution centers located throughout the United States: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
The company was founded by Polish immigrant Maxwell Kohl, who opened a corner grocery store in Milwaukee in 1927.
In 1962, British American Tobacco Company acquired a controlling interest in Kohl’s.
In 1972 the Kohl family regained full control of the business.
In 1979 Kohl’s began to expand nationwide.
Kohl’s expanded rapidly throughout the 1980s and 1990s opening an average of 10 stores per year.
Kohl’s entered the e-commerce market early; it launched its first website in April 2000 and began to offer online shopping services to customers in June 2001.
Kohl’s Corporation is an American retail chain that operates over 1,000 stores across the country. The company was founded by Maxwell Kohl in 1927 and has since grown to become one of the largest department store chains in the United States. Today, Kohl’s offers a wide range of products and services both online and in-store
