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    KB Toys stores—formerly known as Kay-Bee Toys until a 1997 brand makeover streamlined the chain’s image—were an omnipresent sight at malls across the United States in the ‘80s and ‘90s. But by 2009, the company had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed its last 460 stores.
    KB Toys went out of business in 2009 and Toys R Us acquired the brand, according to CNBC. Strategic Marks acquired the KB Toys name in 2016, according to CNNMoney.
    KB Toys went out of business in 2009.
     
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    KB Toys - Wikipedia

    Retail sales began during the 1970s, using the name Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby. In 1999, the company operated 1,324 stores across the United States and was the second-largest toy retailer in the U.S., but it later declared bankruptcy in both 2004 and 2008 before going out of business on February 9, 2009. See more

    K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores. The company was founded in 1922 as Kaufman Brothers, a wholesale candy store. The company opened a wholesale toy store … See more

    In December 1999, The Equal Rights Center (TERC) and two black customers filed a federal lawsuit against KB Toys over one of the company's policies in which personal checks could not be used to pay for purchases at certain stores that experienced … See more

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    Brothers Harry and Joseph Kaufman originally opened a wholesale candy store, Kaufman Brothers, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on April 1, 1922. During the 1940s, the … See more

     
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