Carol Williams

JS Stores, Inc. provides specialty stores catering to discerning customers with preferences for distinctive, quality merchandise. The company owns a substantial portion of the real property used in its business, through its consolidated & wholly-owned real estate subsidiary Jacobson Stores Realty Co. The company operates stores in eighteen cities in Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Florida. The principal distribution functions are performed at service centers in Jackson, Michigan and Winter Park, Florida. Functions common to all stores, such as management coordination, merchandising, sales promotion, data processing and accounting are centralized at the corporate headquarters in Jackson, Michigan

May Department Stores International, Inc.( MDSI) was a design and sourcing company. MDSI previously owned all trade names and marks associated with proprietary brand merchandise and developed and distributed the proprietary brand merchandise bearing those trade names and marks for May. MDSI has approximately 40-50 private labels in use at the department store divisions. The company was headquartered in St. Louis, MO.