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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s.
Dec 7, 1985 · Samuel S. Wurtzel, founder of Circuit City Stores Inc., died Thursday at his home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 78 years old. Mr. Wurtzel was born in Sea Bright, N.J. In 1949 he moved to Richmond...
Wurtzel’s father, Sam Wurtzel, opened a television store known as Wards, the first location in the eventual Circuit City empire, in Richmond, Va., in 1950. The idea came to him when he was passing through the city, stopped for a haircut and heard the barber talking about the South’s first television station, which had just debuted there.
Wurtzel, Samuel & Wurtzel, Alan L. (1907-1985) (1933-) Circuit City Stores Inc. Overview. Father and son Samuel S. Wurtzel and Alan L. Wurtzel propelled the Circuit City Stores into a conglomerate specializing in consumer electronics, digital video programming, music software, and automobile sales.
Nov 22, 2016 · When the enterprise operated as Wards Company TV stores in the 1950s, founder Samuel S. Wurtzel took a personal interest in his employees.
beginning, founder Sam Wurtzel quickly built the company into a national chain, and his son Alan turned it into a household name. By 2000, Circuit City employed more than 60,000 people at 616 locations across the United States. Circuit City is also one of American retailing’s great fail-ures. In November 2008, the 59-year-old company filed for
May 29, 2018 · Circuit City was founded by Samuel S. Wurtzel, an importer-exporter who owned a business in New York.
