16 Facts About Dillard's

Dillard's, Inc is an upscale American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dillard's has stores in 27 more states; however, it is absent from the Northeast, most of the Upper Midwest, the Northwest, and most of California, aside from three stores in smaller cities.

Dillard's is the outgrowth of a department store founded in 1938 by William T Dillard; its corporate headquarters remain located at the eastern edge of Little Rock's Riverdale area and many of its executives and directors are members of the Dillard family.

Expansion of the Dillard's chain increased rapidly during the 1970s, mainly through expanding into new malls being built in smaller cities in Texas.

In 1982, Dillard's leased three units of the defunct Lowenstein's chain in Memphis, Tennessee.

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In 1987, Dillard's purchased 26 of Joske's 27 stores in Texas and Arizona as well as the four-unit Cain-Sloan chain in Nashville, Tennessee, from Allied Stores Corp.

That same year, Dillard's co-founded CDI Contractors, a construction company that would help build, remodel, and repair most of its locations, with William "Bill" Clark and Braggs Electric Construction Company.

In 1999, Dillard's opened stores at Mall of Georgia and Arbor Place Mall near Atlanta, Georgia.

In 2005, Dillard's opened stores at Perimeter Mall and Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia as well as St Johns Town Center in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2008, Dillard's closed their travel agency, Dillard's Travel, alongside all in-store locations due to economic conditions.

Additionally, Dillard's announced that it had completed a transaction to acquire the remaining fifty percent interest in CDI Contractors, LLC and CDI Contractors, Inc, which it did not already own.

In late 2018, Dillard's announced a location would open in fall 2019 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the site of the former Younkers in Empire Mall.

In September 2019, Dillard's remained headquartered in Arkansas, with 260 "full-line" stores and 29 clearance centers.

Dillard's was a significant owner of property in the United States, and it owned 44.

In May 2020, Dillard's had reopened all but two of its locations in Tampa Bay, according to its website at the time.

At the time, Dillard's had 257 department stores, and 28 clearance stores, and had reopened stores in 21 states or more.