Career
In 1945, while taking graduate classes in retailing at New York University, she took a position at Lord & Taylor. After five years, she went to Bonwit Teller as a millinery buyer. When she left Bonwit Teller in 1975 to become President of Wamsutta Trucraft Home Fashions, she had risen to senior vice president and general merchandise manager. She returned to Bonwit Teller five years later in 1980 as President/CEO. Galland presided from 1980 to 1983, a time when the company's brand had undergone a decline. The company was acquired in 1979 by Allied Stores Corporation, which closed Bonwit-Tellers flagship store on Fifth Avenue. Galland oversaw the opening of a new Bonwit store, a third the size, in the Trump Tower.
She eventually left Bonwit Teller again to form her own eponymous marketing/consulting firm, Helen Galland Associates. Bonwit Teller and all its remaining stores closed for good in 1990.
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