ZCMI
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Company type | Department store |
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| Fate | Converted to Meier & Frank or sold to Dillard's |
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| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. |
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| Parent | The May Department Stores Company (1999–2001) |
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Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) was an American department store chain. It was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 9, 1868, by Brigham Young. For many years it used the slogan, "America's First Department Store."
History
Even though the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had been headquartered in Salt Lake City for some twenty years by that time, they were despised by the surrounding community, as Young had disparaged non-Mormon merchants who had engaged in price gouging on necessities, and encouraged boycotting these businesses in 1866.[1] Business owners who were LDS Church members were routinely charged higher prices by wholesalers who discovered they were dealing with church members.
Partly because of the impending completion of the railroad, and partly to create a more fair business atmosphere, it was Young's idea to encourage businesses owned by LDS Church members to band together under one roof. By pooling their resources, they were able to make larger orders to sell materials and goods exclusively (at the time) to fellow LDS Church members.[2]Template:Rp
ZCMI was formally organized in 1868 and incorporated for a 25-year renewable contract in 1870.[3]Template:Rp The central component of this was the LDS Church's purchase of the Eagle Emporium, a conglomerate of mercantile companies owned by William Jennings.[2]Template:Rp
ZCMI became a formidable business force, eventually manufacturing its own line of boots and shoes, and a line of work clothes. It also sold everything from housing needs, lumber, nails, and the like, to household needs such as fabric, needles, thread, food preservation products, furniture, and draperies, even some beauty products; nearly everything the pioneers needed to survive and thrive.[4]
Based in Salt Lake City, it quickly became a household name in the community. The LDS Church was a significant influence in the company, retaining a majority interest in ZCMI until its eventual sale in December 1999.[5] The store was established by a vote from the Council of Fifty, an early organization in the LDS Church. The store president would often also be LDS Church president, with Harold Harper Bennett being the first store president to not also hold the church office.
In 1990, ZCMI opened its first concept store called ZCMI II. Featuring a smaller floor plan than its usual stores, this concept sold solely men's and women's clothing and shoes, while lacking other departments such as housewares, linens, and children's clothing. The first of these opened at Tri City Mall in Mesa, Arizona in 1990.[6]
In October 1999, as a result of losses for two consecutive years, along with mounting economic and social pressures, ZCMI was sold to May Department Stores Company of St. Louis,[5] ZCMI operated under its original name as a part of May's Portland-based Meier & Frank division until April 2001, when the stores adopted the Meier & Frank name. In addition to the name change, the Utah stores in Logan and St. George, along with the Idaho stores in Idaho Falls and Pocatello, were sold to Dillard's in March 2001.[7] May Co. was sold to Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) in 2005.[8] In September 2006, all Meier & Frank stores were converted to Macy's.[9]
The façade of ZCMI was used in the City Creek Center, retaining the original ZCMI nameplate as a front for Macy's.
See also
- ZCMI Center Mall – former LDS Church shopping center near Temple Square, Salt Lake City
- Zion's Central Board of Trade
- Zions Securities – LDS Church property portfolio
- List of department stores converted to Macy's
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Godfrey, Matthew C. (2007). Religion, politics, and sugar : the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921. Lehi, Utah: Utah State University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-87421-658-5. OCLC 74988178.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bradley, Martha Sonntag (1991). ZCMI, America's First Department Store. ZCMI. ISBN 978-0875794822.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bradley, Martha Sonntag (1991). ZCMI, America's first department store. ZCMI. ISBN 978-0875794822.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bradley, Martha Sontag (1994), "Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI)", Utah History Encyclopedia, University of Utah Press, ISBN 9780874804256, archived from the original on November 3, 2022, retrieved March 27, 2024
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knudson, Max B. (October 15, 1999). "May agrees to buy ZCMI". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. A1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jean Novotny (February 28, 1990). "Utah chain to open 1st ZCMI II store in Valley mall today". Arizona Republic. pp. C2. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dillard's to buy Logan ZCMI store". HJ News. March 29, 2001.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Byron, Ellen (28 February 2005). "Federated Agrees To Acquire May In $11 Billion Deal". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barbaro, Michael (August 26, 2006). "After Smooth Sales Talk, Stores Take Macy's Name". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zobell, Albert L. Jr. (October 1968), "ZCMI: America's First Department Store", Improvement Era, 71 (10): 32
External links
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- Utah state history: ZCMI
- Utah Heritage Foundation details on the ZCMI building façade in downtown Salt Lake City
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