Eddie Bauer
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• (EBH) is an American holding company, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, which operates the Eddie Bauer clothing store chain
• EBH was formed after Eddie Bauer's former parent company, Spiegel, Inc
• , went bankrupt in 2003
• Eddie Bauer currently operates three independent sales channels:nRetail stores - sells "premium" merchandisenOutlet stores - sells merchandise and inventory overstocks at lower pricesnDirect order center - sells merchandise through call centers in Groveport, Ohio, and the company's website
• The company was established in 1920 in Seattle by Pacific Northwest outdoorsman, Eddie Bauer (1899 – 1986)
• In 1940 Bauer patented the first quilted down jacket
• He later patented numerous other designs
• The company was the first independent company which the United States Army hired and allowed to use a logo on the Army-issued uniform
• Bauer retired and sold the company in 1968
• General Mills bought the company in 1971; in 1988, Spiegel bought it from General Mills