Editing Gottschalks (section)

==Expansion==

The number of Gottschalks units doubled from nine in 1985 to 18 in 1988 and annual revenues increased from $112 million to $196 million in the process. Part of this growth came via the acquisition of two small family-run department store chains in 1987 and 1988, for a total of $11 million.
[[File:Brock's Department Store Logo.png|thumb|Brock's department store logo]]
'''Brock's (Malcolm Brock and Co.)''' stores and 500 employees were added in [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]], the Downtown flagship and in the [[Valley Plaza Mall]].<ref name="brocks_leask">{{cite news |title=Gottschalks adds new chains |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23678057/santa-maria-times/ |publisher=Santa Maria Times |date=September 15, 1988}}</ref>
[[File:Leask's Department Store CA Logo.png|thumb|Leask's department store logo]]
The acquisition of '''Samuel Leask & Sons''' chains added three stores and 150 employees, in:<ref name="brocks_leask"/>
* [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]], {{convert|80000|sqft|sqm}}
* [[Scotts Valley, California|Scotts Valley]] {{convert|11000|sqft|sqm}}
* [[Aptos, California|Aptos]], {{convert|9000|sqft|sqm}}
* a store to be built in the [[Capitola Mall]] in [[Capitola, California|Capitola]]

The chain also refined its specialty store offerings, converting its Bobbie West juniors stores into Petites West boutiques mid-decade in order to attract smaller-sized Asian and Latin women.

The company's stock started trading on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] in 1986 under the symbol GOT.<ref name="Gottschalks About Us">{{cite web |url=http://www.gottschalks.com/CompanyInfo/about.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20040310001748/http://www.gottschalks.com/CompanyInfo/about.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-03-10 |title=About Gottschalks |publisher=Gottschalks |access-date=2009-01-15}}</ref> In 1988, the company closed its flagship store in Fresno, California due to unsatisfactory sales.<ref name="FundingUniverse">{{cite web |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Gottschalks-Inc-Company-History.html |title=Gottschalks, Inc. |publisher=FundingUniverse |access-date=2009-01-15 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=<!--undated-->}}</ref>
[[File:Harris-Gottchalks Transition Logo.png|thumb|Harris-Gottschalks logo]]
In 1995, the company went online. In 1996, they opened a {{convert|125000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} store in the troubled [[Park Lane Mall|Park Lane Centre]] in [[Reno, Nevada]], which had lost its two department store anchors [[Sears]] and [[Weinstock's]] to a larger competitor mall. The company grew in [[Southern California]] with the 1998 acquisition of [[Harris Department Store]]s, which operated as Harris-Gottschalks stores by then. In 2000, the [[Seattle]] based department store [[Lamonts]] was acquired.<ref name="Fresno Bee Gottschalks" />