Apparel Companies Y

One Company, a Century and a Half of History

Y is one of the shortest letters in this directory, with a single entry - but that entry carries more history than most letters combined. Younkers began as a family-run dry goods business in Keokuk, Iowa in 1856, grew into Iowa's best-known department-store chain from its Des Moines headquarters, and traded for more than 160 years before its stores closed on August 29, 2018, in the liquidation of its parent company, The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.

The Younkers profile linked below is kept as a full company record: a verified snapshot stating plainly that the chain is closed, the story of its growth across Iowa and the Midwest, its years inside Proffitt's, Saks and then Bon-Ton, and what happened to the name afterwards - it was sold to CSC Generation in September 2018, relaunched briefly as an online store, and passed to BrandX.com in 2021, whose younkers.com site currently shows only a 'coming soon' notice. Closed companies stay in this directory as profiles and history; they are simply no longer presented as operating stores.

Using This Directory

Use the letter bar to move through the full A-Z company index, or open the single chip below to go straight to the Younkers profile. This section of the Apparel Search website is for locating fashion companies by name; it does not include every apparel company, but it offers a useful selection, and new listings are added periodically. The shop box above is a directory service - it searches marketplace listings for Younkers-branded clothing, which marketplace and resale sellers still carry - it is not a link to a Younkers store, because no Younkers store is operating.