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Gottschalks (NYSE: GOT[1]) is an American department store. It was founded by German immigrant Emil Gottschalk in 1904 in Fresno, California. Gottschalks has 63 stores and 10 specialty stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada.) It is the largest independently-owned department store in the United States.
The company started trading stocks in 1986. In 1995 the company went online. The company grew in Southern California with the acquisition of Harris Department Stores. In 2000 the Seattle based department store Lamonts was acquired.
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