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ALFRED G. GOLDSTEIN
Sears Specialty
Merchandising
Al Goldstein has been president of AG Associates, a consulting and
private investment company since 1993.
From
January 1987 until his retirement in April 1993, Goldstein was president
of Sears Specialty Merchandising. Upon rejoining Sears in 1987,
he was responsible for building a profitable $2 billion group of
specialty retailing businesses. Goldstein directed the acquisition
of Western Auto Company and its subsidiaries, Tire America and NTW,
Pinstripes Petites, and Eye Care Centers of America as well as restrategized
and redirected Sears' internally developed businesses, including
Sears Business Centers, Paint and Hardware Stores, and direct marketing
operations.
In
addition to the specialty business, Sears Logistics Services (Sears'
transportation, warehousing and distribution unit), Sears Catalog,
direct marketing business, and Sears Canada, were among his responsibilities.
Goldstein
was employed by American Can Company (Primerica) from 1979 through
1986. He joined American Can as corporate senior vice president
of consumer businesses in 1979. He was initially responsible for
its paper towel and bathroom tissue business, the Dixie Cup Company,
the Vogue-Butterick Pattern Company and American Can's forest products
business with its 2.2 million acres of woodlands, four pulp mills,
three saw mills, four paper manufacturing plants and its trunk railroad.
Later he was given responsibility for American Can's waste recovery
and plastics packaging businesses.
From
1983 through 1986, Goldstein was president and chief operating officer
of American Can's (Primerica) specialty retailing sector that included
the Fingerhut Companies, Musicland, Sam Goody, Dunham's Sporting
Goods, and the Pickwick Distribution Company. He was chairman and
chief executive officer of Fingerhut and Musicland.
From
1956 to 1979, Sears, Roebuck and Co. employed Goldstein in a series
of buying, merchandising, marketing, factory management and administrative
positions that led from management trainee to vice president and
general manager of its Women's Apparel, Notions, and Textiles group.
A member
and former officer of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business
Alumni Association, Goldstein is a member of the board of executive
advisors of THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE and Northwestern
University's Kellogg School of Management Center for the study of
Ethical Issues in Business, where he is also a visiting lecturer.
In addition, he serves on the marketing committee of the board of
trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago, and is a member of the
board of directors of the United Negro College Fund.
Goldstein
has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in business.
He served in the US Army, military intelligence.
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