COMPANY

Department store chain, founded by James Cash Penney in 1902 as the Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer, WY.

Official Website:
http://www.jcpenney.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NYSE:JCP

Corporate headquarters:
Plano, TX

Sales:
$18.8B (2006)

Employees:
150,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ken C. Hicks	Business	c. 1952		CEO of Foot Locker
William R. Howell	Business	c. 1936		CEO of JC Penney, 1983-97
Ron Johnson	Business	c. 1958		CEO of JC Penney, 2011-13
James E. Oesterreicher	Business	c. 1942		CEO of JC Penney, 1995-2000
J. C. Penney	Business	16-Sep-1875	12-Feb-1971	Founder of J. C. Penney Company
Allen I. Questrom	Business	13-Apr-1941		CEO of JC Penney, 2000-04
Beryl B. Raff	Business	c. 1950		EVP at JC Penney
Myron E. Ullman	Business	c. 1946		CEO of JC Penney

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Ackman	Business	11-May-1966		Pershing Square Capital Management
Colleen C. Barrett	Business	14-Sep-1944		President of Southwest Airlines
Thomas J. Engibous	Business	31-Jan-1953		CEO of Texas Instruments, 1996-2004
Kent B. Foster	Business	1944		CEO of Ingram Micro, 2000-05
Gerry Laybourne	Business	19-May-1947		CEO of Oxygen Media, 1998-2007
Leonard H. Roberts	Business	19-Feb-1949		CEO of Radio Shack, 1999-2005
Javier Teruel	Business	c. 1950		Colgate-Palmolive EVP
R. Gerald Turner	Educator	c. 1946		President, Southern Methodist University
Myron E. Ullman	Business	c. 1946		CEO of JC Penney
Mary Beth West	Business	c. 1962		Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Foods

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
M. Anthony Burns	Business	1-Nov-1942		CEO of Ryder System, 1983-2000
Maxine K. Clark	Business	6-Mar-1949		CEO of Build-a-Bear Workshop, 1997-13
Ken C. Hicks	Business	c. 1952		CEO of Foot Locker
William R. Howell	Business	c. 1936		CEO of JC Penney, 1983-97
Ron Johnson	Business	c. 1958		CEO of JC Penney, 2011-13
Vernon Jordan	Business	15-Aug-1935		Advisor to Bill Clinton
Juanita M. Kreps	Government	11-Jan-1921	5-Jul-2010	US Secretary of Commerce, 1977-79
James E. Oesterreicher	Business	c. 1942		CEO of JC Penney, 1995-2000
Burl Osborne	Publisher	25-Jun-1937	15-Aug-2012	Dallas Morning News
Jane C. Pfeiffer	Business	29-Sep-1932		Chairman of NBC, 1978-81
Allen I. Questrom	Business	13-Apr-1941		CEO of JC Penney, 2000-04
Ann Richards	Politician	1-Sep-1933	13-Sep-2006	Governor of Texas, 1991-95

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Susan E. Engel	Business	c. 1946		CEO of Lenox Group, 1996-2007
Paul Simon	Politician	29-Nov-1928	9-Dec-2003	US Senator, one-time Presidential candidate
Jeffrey Tambor	Actor	8-Jul-1944		Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show
Sam Walton	Business	29-Mar-1918	5-Apr-1992	America's richest man, founded Wal-Mart

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Bennett	Politician	18-Sep-1933		US Senator from Utah, 1993-2011

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ellen DeGeneres	Comic	26-Jan-1958		Ellen
Kenny Rogers	Country Musician	21-Aug-1938		The Gambler

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