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B. Altman & Co. was a New York City-based department store founded in 1865 by Benjamin Altman and later joined by Michael Friedsam. The company had stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York state, as well as its block-long main store at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan.
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Benjamin Grannis born in 1757 was a large manufacturer of boots and shoes in New Haven, Conn., doing business under the firm name of B. Granniss & Sons, with a branch house in New York under the firm name of C. B. Granniss and Co., and another in Charleston, S. C., doing business as Granniss, White & Co., in Richmond, Va. as Granniss, Son & Brothers; and in Petersburgh, Va. as Granniss & Co.
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Benjamin Siegel, who was born in Germany on March 15, 1860, came to the United States in 1876. In 1877 he began his career in a general merchandise store in Selma, Alabama, later relocating to Detroit, Michigan where he organized the B. Siegel Co. in 1881.
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Carl Franz Bally was born in Schonenwed, Switzerland in 1821. He was the son of a silk ribbon weaver, and together with his brother had taken over the family business in 1847. Carl Franz expanded the company to include an elastic tape that was used by shoemakers.
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Bata Shoes (in Czech Baťovy závody) is a large, family owned shoe company. It is currently headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates in 68 countries.
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Bonwit Teller was a department store in New York City founded by Paul Bonwit.
Bonwit opened a store at Sixth Avenue and Eighteenth Street in 1895. Two years later he formed a partnership with Edmund D. Teller and relocated their establishment - now known as Bonwit Teller - to Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. The firm was incorporated in 1907 as Bonwit Teller & Company and in 1911 relocated yet again, this time to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street.
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The Bruno Magli company started in 1930s as a family business by Marino, Bruno and Maria Magli in a small workshop at the basement of their home in Bologna, Italy.
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