KB Toys, the Glossary
K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores.[1]
Table of Contents
65 relations: American City Business Journals, AOL, Bain Capital, Big Lots, Black Friday (shopping), Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chief executive officer, Circus World (store), Class action, Closeout (sale), CNNfn, Creditor, Damages, Denver, District attorney, Dividend recapitalization, Donald Kaufman (collector), Dow Jones & Company, Eastern United States, EToys.com, FAO Schwarz, Guam, Hasbro, Initial public offering, Insolvency, Intangible asset, Lee, Massachusetts, Lego, LinkedIn, Los Angeles Times, Melville Corporation, Midwestern United States, Napa County, California, Napa Valley Register, Nasdaq, North America, Outlet store, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, PolitiFact, Pop-up retail, President (corporate title), Privately held company, Public offering, Puerto Rico, Restructuring, Sears, Share (finance), Shopping mall, Store-within-a-store, Strip mall, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- 1922 establishments in Massachusetts
- 2009 disestablishments in Massachusetts
- American companies established in 1922
- Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004
- Former entities
- Retail companies disestablished in 2009
- Retail companies established in 1922
- Toy retailers of the United States
- Toys "R" Us
American City Business Journals
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
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Bain Capital
Bain Capital, LP is an American private investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, with around $185 billion of assets under management.
Big Lots
Big Lots Stores, Inc. (stylized as Big Lots!) is an American discount retail chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, United States. KB Toys and Big Lots are toy retailers of the United States.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States.
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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.
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Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Circus World (store)
Circus World (originally Child's World) was a toy store chain started and operated by Sidney Rubin. KB Toys and Circus World (store) are Defunct retail companies of the United States and toy retailers of the United States.
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Class action
A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.
Closeout (sale)
A closeout or clearance sale (closing down sale in the United Kingdom) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale.
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CNNfn
CNNfn (with "fn" an initialism for "financial network") was an American cable television news network operated by the CNN subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner from December 29, 1995, and of AOL Time Warner until December 15, 2004.
Creditor
A creditor or lender is a party (e.g., person, organization, company, or government) that has a claim on the services of a second party.
Damages
At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury.
Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
District attorney
In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.
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Dividend recapitalization
A dividend recapitalization (often referred to as a dividend recap) in finance is a type of leveraged recapitalization in which a payment is made to shareholders.
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Donald Kaufman (collector)
Donald Lewis Kaufman (8 October 1930 – 12 October 2009) was an American toy collector amassing millions of dollars' worth of antique items in his country home in western Massachusetts.
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Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (also known simply as Dow Jones) is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour.
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Eastern United States
The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.
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EToys.com
eToys.com was a retail website that sold toys via the Internet. KB Toys and EToys.com are Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008, retail companies disestablished in 2009, toy retailers of the United States and toys "R" Us.
FAO Schwarz
FAO Schwarz is an American toy brand and retail chain. KB Toys and FAO Schwarz are toy retailers of the United States and toys "R" Us.
Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
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Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. (a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.
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Insolvency
In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company (debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent.
Intangible asset
An intangible asset is an asset that lacks physical substance.
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Lee, Massachusetts
Lee is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Lego
Lego (stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.
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LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881. KB Toys and Los Angeles Times are Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008.
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Melville Corporation
Melville Corporation was a large retail holding company incorporated by Ward Melville in 1922 from Melville Shoe Company. KB Toys and Melville Corporation are American companies established in 1922, Defunct retail companies of the United States and retail companies established in 1922.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Napa County, California
Napa County is a county north of San Pablo Bay located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Napa Valley Register
The Napa Valley Register is a daily newspaper located in Napa, California.
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Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Outlet store
An outlet store, factory outlet or factory store is a brick and mortar or online store where manufacturers sell their merchandise directly to the public.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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PolitiFact
PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials, candidates, their staffs, lobbyists, interest groups and others involved in U.S.
Pop-up retail
Pop-up retail, also known as pop-up store (pop-up shop in the UK, Australia and Ireland) or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces that last for days to weeks before closing down, often to catch onto a fad or scheduled event.
President (corporate title)
A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.
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Privately held company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.
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Public offering
A public offering is the offering of securities of a company or a similar corporation to the public.
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Puerto Rico
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Restructuring
Restructuring or Reframing is the corporate management term for the act of reorganizing the legal, ownership, operational, or other structures of a company for the purpose of making it more profitable, or better organized for its present needs.
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.
In financial markets, a share (sometimes referred to as stock or equity) is a unit of equity ownership in the capital stock of a corporation, and can refer to units of mutual funds, limited partnerships, and real estate investment trusts.
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A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores.
Store-within-a-store
A store-within-a-store, also referred to as store-in-store (North America) or shop-in-shop (U.K. et al.), refers to a space within a larger retail store, designated for use by a specific brand to feature its products, clearly branded with signs and other branding elements like color, materials, layout, etc.
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Strip mall
A strip mall, strip center, strip plaza or simply plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America and Australia where the stores are arranged in a row, with a footpath in front.
The Berkshire Eagle
The Berkshire Eagle is an American daily newspaper published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and covering all of Berkshire County, as well as four New York communities near Pittsfield.
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The Daily Journal (New Jersey)
The Daily Journal is a newspaper printed in Vineland, New Jersey from Monday to Saturday.
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The Herald-Palladium
The Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties.
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The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)
The Republican is a newspaper based in Springfield, Massachusetts, covering news in the Greater Springfield area, as well as national news and pieces from Boston, Worcester and northern Connecticut.
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The Standard-Times (New Bedford)
The Standard-Times (and Sunday Standard-Times), based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the largest of three daily newspapers covering the South Coast of Massachusetts, along with The Herald News of Fall River and Taunton Daily Gazette of Taunton, Massachusetts.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Ticker symbol
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.
Toy store
A toy store or toy shop is a type of retail business specializing in selling toys.
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. KB Toys and toys "R" Us are Bain Capital companies and toy retailers of the United States.
Tulsa World
The Tulsa World is an American daily newspaper.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area
The Washington–Baltimore combined metropolitan statistical area is a statistical area, including the overlapping metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
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Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Wholesaling
Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services.
See also
1922 establishments in Massachusetts
- Association of Field Ornithologists
- Baikar
- Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
- Camp Half Moon
- Charles R. Wilber School
- Concord Academy
- D'Amore-McKim School of Business
- Eaglebrook School
- Fall River F.C. (1922–1931)
- Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum
- Gremio Lusitano
- Harold H. Anthony House
- Harvard Business Review
- KB Toys
- Lechmere station
- Leominster State Forest
- Lowell Memorial Auditorium
- Marlborough Country Club
- Massachusetts Route 119
- Massachusetts Route 28
- Memorial Bridge (Massachusetts)
- Miss Massachusetts
- R. H. Long Motors Company
- Raytheon
- Rogers Hall School
- South Shore Hospital
- Spencer State Forest
- Statue of Anne Hutchinson
- Triton Babies Fountain
- WBIX
- WMAF (Massachusetts)
- Walden Pond
- Wenham Museum
- World War I Memorial (Boston)
2009 disestablishments in Massachusetts
- Bement Camp and Conference Center
- Berkshire Opera Company
- Boston Aztec
- Boston Renegades
- BusRadio
- Camp Nawaka
- Cyrk (company)
- Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
- KB Toys
- Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Skating Rink
- Massachusetts Twisters
- Metropolitan Boston Hockey League
- New England Surge
- North American Women's Baseball League
- Northeastern Huskies football
- Western Mass Lady Pioneers
American companies established in 1922
- Advance Publications
- Allen & Company
- Allen Edmonds
- Belle Tire
- Birds Eye
- Buffalo Union-Carolina Railroad
- C. R. Anthony Co.
- Dagmar (automobile)
- Edison Brothers Stores
- Edward Jones Investments
- First National Bank Alaska
- Fortunoff
- Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester and Camilla Railway
- Gibbs & Cox
- Guy Carpenter
- Judy Company
- KB Toys
- La Choy
- Langenstein's
- Melville Corporation
- NexBank
- Ohio Bell
- Olean Wholesale Grocery
- Page Organ Company
- Palmer Communications
- Pennsylvania Paper and Supply Company
- R. H. Long Motors Company
- Raytheon
- Red Owl (retail chain)
- Regis Corporation
- St. Louis Music
- Standard Oil of Colorado
- State Farm
- The Fountain Pen Shop
- Thom McAn
- Time Inc.
- Trusted Media Brands
- USAA
- WESCO International
- Walter M. Murphy Company
- Werner Co.
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Wirtz Corporation
- Wish Farms
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004
- ATA Airlines
- Acclaim Entertainment
- Aloha Air Cargo
- Aloha Airlines
- Anchor Hocking
- Arrow Air
- At Home (store)
- Atlas Air
- Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
- Avianca
- Balmain (fashion house)
- Black Angus Steakhouse
- Briazz
- Commerce One
- Dolly Madison
- Don Pablo's
- Drake's Cakes
- Factory 2-U
- Fannie May
- Fanny Farmer
- Footstar
- Frank's Nursery & Crafts
- Gadzooks (retailer)
- GameWorks
- Giovanola
- Global Aviation Holdings
- Haynes International
- Hot 'n Now
- Interstate Bakeries
- Jillian's
- Just For Feet
- KB Toys
- Lionel, LLC
- Merita Breads
- Metro3D
- PSA Airlines
- RCN Corporation
- Reynolds Brothers
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson
- Schlotzsky's
- The Athlete's Foot
- Thom McAn
- Tower Records
- Trump Entertainment Resorts
- US Airways
- US Airways Group
- Wonder Bread
Former entities
- Extinct languages
- Former constellations
- KB Toys
- Lost works
- Obsolete scientific theories
- Obsolete taxa
- Obsolete units of measurement
- Overruled United States Supreme Court decisions
- The 3DO Company
Retail companies disestablished in 2009
- ...instore
- A&P Canada
- Affiliated Foods Southwest
- Atomic Records (Milwaukee record shop)
- Borders (UK)
- Builders Square
- Celebrations Group
- Chevrolet-Saturn of Harlem
- Circuit City
- Club Libby Lu
- Dorian's
- Drug Fair
- EToys.com
- Entertainment UK
- First Quench Retailing
- Fortunoff
- FreshXpress
- G.I. Joe's
- Giant Markets
- Goody's (department store)
- Gottschalks
- Hechinger
- Highburton Co-operative Society
- Home Décor Products
- InterTAN
- KB Toys
- Land of Leather
- Loeb (supermarket)
- MK One
- Manny's Music
- Mervyn's
- Mosaic Fashions
- Moulton Co-operative Society
- Plus (German supermarket)
- Principles (retailer)
- Robinson Department Store (Japan)
- Smith & Hawken
- Steve & Barry's
- Tevrow + Chase
- The Maxx (retail store)
- Uni-Mart
- West Coast Video
- Woolworths (United Kingdom)
- Yardbirds Home Center
Retail companies established in 1922
- Allen Edmonds
- Atlantis Bookshop
- Belle Tire
- C. R. Anthony Co.
- Canadian Tire
- Collins Booksellers
- Edison Brothers Stores
- Foodstuffs (company)
- Fortunoff
- Fred Meyer
- Hield
- KB Toys
- Lane Drug
- Langenstein's
- Melville Corporation
- Olean Wholesale Grocery
- Red Owl (retail chain)
- Regis Corporation
- Reidy's Home of Music
- Repco
- Rosebys
- The Fountain Pen Shop
- Thom McAn
- Vinmonopolet
- William Harvey (department store)
- Zern's Farmer's Market
Toy retailers of the United States
- Big Lots
- Build-A-Bear Workshop
- Bunnies By The Bay
- Child World
- Circus World (store)
- Disney Store
- Dispensa's Kiddie Kingdom and Castle of Toys
- EToys.com
- Entertainment Earth
- FAO Schwarz
- Five Below
- Fred's
- HobbyTown USA
- KB Toys
- Kidrobot
- Kip's Toyland
- Kmart
- Lakeshore Learning Materials
- Learning Express Toys
- Lionel Kiddie City
- Noodle Kidoodle
- Ollie's Bargain Outlet
- Right Start
- S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes
- Store of Knowledge
- Target Corporation
- The Lego Group
- ThinkGeek
- Toys "R" Us
- Tru Kids
- Walmart
- Zany Brainy
Toys "R" Us
- BowMac sign
- EToys.com
- FAO Schwarz
- G.I. Joe vs. Cobra
- Interstate Department Stores
- KB Toys
- Macy's
- Olympia Theatre (New York City)
- Tabeo
- The Toy Box
- Toys "R" Us
- Toys "R" Us Canada
- Toys "R" Us UK
- Toys "R" Us, Inc. v. Step Two, S.A
- Tru Kids
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB_Toys
Also known as K B Toys, K*B, K*B Toys, K-B Toys, KB Toy Store, Kay Bee Toys, Kay*Bee Toys, Kay*bee, Kay-Bee Toy Store, Kay-Bee Toys, KayBee Toys, Kay•Bee Toys, Kay•bee, K•B, K•B Toys, Toy Works.
, The Berkshire Eagle, The Daily Journal (New Jersey), The Herald-Palladium, The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), The Standard-Times (New Bedford), The Wall Street Journal, Ticker symbol, Toy store, Toys "R" Us, Tulsa World, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States, Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, Wayback Machine, Wholesaling.