To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple. A unit of length used in surveying, equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12 centimeters. An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data.
Sale to The Bon-Ton. Carson's and its associated stores became part of The Bon-Ton Stores Inc. in a $1.1 billion deal completed on March 6, 2006. The group's merchandising and marketing base remains in Milwaukee. Bon-Ton converted Elder-Beerman stores in Indiana and Michigan to the newly shortened Carson's name in 2011 and 2012. The chain expanded into Metro Detroit in 2013 with the conversion of three Parisian stores.
The Bon-Ton History. The Bon-Ton was founded in 1898 when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel, opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room dry goods store and millinery in York, Pennsylvania. The store grew and in 1929 the company was incorporated as S. Grumbacher & Son, Inc. Maxâs son, Max Samuel, joined the family business two years later in 1931. Bon-Ton opened a second store in Hanover, Pennsylvania, 1946. The company started to expand more rapidly when it acquired Eyerlyâs in Haggerstown, Maryland in 1948 and McMeenâs in Lewistown, Pennsylvania in 1956.