Store Profiles: Robinsons-May

Robinson's-May is the result of two stores that merged in 1993: J.W. Robinson's and May Company California.

Robinson's was acquired by Associated Dry Goods in 1957, which merged with May in 1986.
But the May name itself dates back to 1881, when Asher Hamburger founded A. Hamburger & Sons in Los Angeles, California. May Company acquired Hamburger in 1923, and the store was renamed May Company California.

As suburbia arose, both May Company and Robinson's expanded, but limited themselves to locations in Southern California. That would change in 1989, when May canned it's Phoenix-area Goldwater's division and divided the stores between Robinson's and May Company California.

Not long after the creation of Robinsons-May, the company took over operations of Foley's Tucson-area stores in 1997. This would be followed up by a merger of operations with Portland-based Meier & Frank, which was consolidated into Robinsons-May's North Hollywood headquarters in 2002.

Robinsons-May: January 31, 1993 to September 9, 2006 at 9:30am PST