Company type | Department Store |
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Industry | retailing |
Founded | Rochester, New York, United States (1911 ) |
Founder | Benjamin Forman |
Defunct | 1994 |
Fate | Acquired by McCurdy's |
Successor | Kaufmann's (1990–2006) Macy's (2006–present) The Bon-Ton |
Key people | Edward Forman |
Products | clothing, merchandise, |
B. Forman Co. was a retail store in Rochester, New York, specializing primarily in high-end women's clothing. Once the largest store of its kind between New York and Chicago, the company, founded by Benjamin Forman in the first decade of the twentieth century, closed in 1994. B. Forman Co., along with McCurdy & Co., created Rochester's Midtown Plaza.