Paul W. Gilbert

JS Stores, Inc. provides specialty stores catering to discerning customers with preferences for distinctive, quality merchandise. The company owns a substantial portion of the real property used in its business, through its consolidated & wholly-owned real estate subsidiary Jacobson Stores Realty Co. The company operates stores in eighteen cities in Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Florida. The principal distribution functions are performed at service centers in Jackson, Michigan and Winter Park, Florida. Functions common to all stores, such as management coordination, merchandising, sales promotion, data processing and accounting are centralized at the corporate headquarters in Jackson, Michigan