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K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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) »

  2. 1922 establishments in Massachusetts
  3. 2009 disestablishments in Massachusetts
  4. American companies established in 1922
  5. Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004
  6. Former entities
  7. Retail companies disestablished in 2009
  8. Retail companies established in 1922
  9. Toy retailers of the United States
  10. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.

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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.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Toy store

A toy store or toy shop is a type of retail business specializing in selling toys.

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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.

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Tulsa World

The Tulsa World is an American daily newspaper.

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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.

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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.

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See also

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

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.