Gordon Segal

Gordon Segal (* around 1940) is the founder and former CEO of the North American furniture chain and mail order company Crate & Barrel .

Segal graduated from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 1960 . He worked as a real estate agent before setting up their first retail store in Old Town Chicago in 1962 with wife Carole Browe Segal and borrowing $ 17,000 . The basic concept was to buy housewares in a contemporary design in Europe from producers or designers and to sell them directly to end customers, bypassing the intermediate trade. Since the share capital was insufficient for the shop fittings, they presented the goods on the boxes (crate) and barrels in which they were delivered.

True to the concept, the mail order business was opened in 1967. Well over a hundred branches in the United States followed. In 1998 Otto Versand took a 51% stake in the company. Segal remained CEO until he handed over this role to his long-term employee Barbara A. Turf in May 2008.

In 2007 Segal was named Multi-Channel Retailer of the Year by the German Mail Order Association .

Web links

• Talking Management (video english)

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1. ↑ History of Crate & Barrel. Retrieved September 17, 2008 . 
2. ^ Crate and Barrel Names Barbara Turf to Succeed Co-Founder Gordon Segal. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2009 ; Retrieved September 17, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Press release of the bvh. (PDF; 123 kB) Accessed September 17, 2009 .