SUPER ACE PRECISION BUILT (1960s)
Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, it began as a mail ordering catalog company, then began opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005 the company was bought by the management of the American big box chain Kmart, which formed Sears Holdings on completion of the merger.