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By Dave Southern

 Abercrombie & Fitch Co, JC Penney, and Pacific Sunwear are three of Americas popular clothing stores. Abercrombie started out as a hunting and camping gears store; JC Penney a dry goods retailer; and Pacific Sunwear a store for surfers.

Ever wonder how your favorite apparel store came to be? Check these three stores out and learn how they soared to be among USAs most admired clothing retailers.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH

David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch founded the Abercrombie & Fitch Co in 1892. David Abercrombie, a former a railroad surveyor, topographer, and miner loved the outdoors. He had a store and factory offering gears used for hunting, fishing, and camping. Ezra Fitch, a thriving lawyer in New York, was one of his clients. And in 1900 the two became partners, thus Abercrombie became Abercrombie & Fitch.

Yet their partnership did not last long as they would often disagree about the companys future undertakings. In 1907, Abercrombie left the job in the hands of Fitch. Opting to feature an outdoor touch for the shop, Fitch arranged a tent and campfire right in the store premises. An expansion for both stocks and the store happened. Abercrombie & Fitch was the first New York shop to deliver outdoor clothing for men and women. The company eventually grew to become the globes biggest sporting merchandise store. It took pride in offering the greatest, most indispensable compilation of guns and fishing equipments, too.

Abercrombie & Fitch’s instituted a name as supplier to the sporting greats. The store even had provided a African Safari outfit for President Theodore Roosevelt. US presidents beginning from Theodore Roosevelt to Gerald Ford ultimately would purchase something from A&F.

When the company experienced bankruptcy, Oshman’s Sporting Goods restored the name; Abercrombie & Fitch however, swung its concentration to modern sporting gears as well as to a more generous range of men and womens clothing. The Limited, Inc. obtained Abercrombie & Fitch in 1988, and totally removed sporting merchandise.

JC PENNEY

In 1902, 26 year-old James Cash Penney established his first retail store in a tiny mining town in Wyoming. Counseled by his physician to transfer to a place with cooler temperature, young Penney transferred to Colorado. There he worked for a dry goods retail store owned by T. M. Callahan. Penney was soon promoted by Callaham, and assigned him to work in his branch in Evanston, Wyoming. There, Penney partnered with Guy Johnson.

After a few years of being a salesperson, Johnson and Callahan made Penney a business partner. Penney, along with the two opened the Golden Rule store, his first dry goods retail shop. Callahan and Johnson eventually parted ways leaving Penney in charge of three shops. Employing the values of his former associates, Penney spread out the branches all through the Rocky Mountains. In 1912, he owned 34 shops. The following year, Penney integrated the firm as J.C. Penney Company, Inc. In 1917, Penney became the chairman of the board when J.C. Penney carried 175 shops. The firm went on to rapidly launch more stores.

These days, as United States top and largest clothing as well as home furnishing seller, JC Penney presents an extensive collection of quality, fashionable, and reasonably priced private and exclusive brands. It now has a total 1,073 stores in all of US, Puerto Rico and Mexico.

PACIFIC SUNWEAR

The Pacific Sunwear started out as a store offering surfing apparels. It was Tom Moore who founded it in 1980 in Newport Beach, California. A year following it, Moore together with his business associates inaugurated its second branch this time in a mall at Santa Monica Place, the location that has become Pacific Sunwears territory for nearly 20 years. The achievement of its first shopping mall shop set off an additional 10 branches. And, as business entrepreneurs financially backed the company in 1987, Pacific Sunwears branches got bigger to 21 stores.

The company went to make several transformations and had its share of failure too when Pacific Sunwear ventured outside of California. Branches had to labor much to sell tees and shorts when it was freezing outside. Michael W. Rayden, an industry expert led the new management and widened client interest by taking on a fresh perspective for the company. Apart from presenting shirts, shorts, and hats alone, Rayden integrated stylish teenaged men’s casual wear from company brands like Mossimo, Stussy, and Billabong. This powerful strategy of trying to interest suburban, male teenagers worked out well. In 1993, sixty branches operated in California and other States such as Washington, New Jersey Arizona, and Florida.

When Rayden resigned from Pacific Sunwear to be President of Limited Too, Greg Weaver took his place. With Weaver leading, Pacific Sunwear aims to become the dominant seller of casual clothes and footwear for Americas young people with its over 300 branches.

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The Great MMA Fighter Fedor Emelianenko
By Phoenix Delray

 Fedor Emelianenko is said to be one of the best heavyweight fighters in the world. Known in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) as The Last Emporor, Fedor Emelianenko has proven that he is one of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts champions who has ever lived. ESPN, The Wrestling Observer, and The Fight Network all couldnt agree more.

Fedor Emelianenko was born on September 28, 1976 in Luhansk, part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. His father was a steel worker, and his mother had been an elementary school teacher. Fedor Emelianenko has two other brothers who also are fighters, though not quite to the extent that he does. All three of the boys are involved in Mixed Martial Arts. Aleksander, Fedor, and Ivan Emelianenko all have many years experience in fighting.

Fedor Emelianenko began as a small child training in the arts of Judo and Sambo, and had all but mastered the fighting styles before he was 10 years old. Fedor Emelianenko was not a large or oversized child at all; he was said to have been below average in size, and no one would ever have guessed that he would have turned out to be a fighter. He claims that it is through his dedication and will power that he was able to get as far as he has today as a champion fighter.

Fedor Emelianenko did not go into fighting as a career right after he was done with school. He graduated from high school in 1991 to attend a professional trade school. He did graduate from the trade school, and from there, Fedor Emelianenko enlisted in the army, and was a firefighter in the army for two years from 1995 to 1997. Once Fedor was out of the army for two years, he courted and married a girl he had been with for a long time, and not long afterwards, their daughter Masha was born.

All the while that Fedor Emelianenko had been in the army and in school, he had continued his training in Judo and Sambo, and by 1997 he was certified as a Master of Sports in both areas. He was asked by the Russian National Team to join them. He did join the team, and in 1998, he won the bronze medal in the Russian Judo Championship. Only two years later in 2000, he began competitions at the professional level in combat Sambo and Mixed Martial Arts.

The fans who follow this great fighter are extremely dedicated to Emelianenko. They admire his courage, his perseverance, and his determination even at a young age to not let his small size keep him from following his dreams of becoming a great fighter.

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