1980: Media World operates four television and home appliance stores in Anytown, Aa. Annual sales volume is approximately $1 million.
1981: Expands operations via licensed departments in mass merchandising discount stores around the country.
1982: Offers new service plan to customers. Media World loans customers a television if their set cannot be repaired in the home.
1984: Opens fifth conventional television and appliance store in the South Plaza Shopping Center in Anytown, Aa.
1985: Begins offering customers automotive and household supplies, appliances, children's toys, clothing, and gasoline.
1966: Opens sixth conventional television and appliance store in the Regional Mall Anytown, Aa. Sales reach $23 million for the fiscal year.
1989: Acquires Consumer Electronics, Inc., a retailer of audio and hi-fidelity equipment that operates four conventional stores in the Anytown, Aa., metropolitan area; nine licensed audio departments in mass merchandising stores.
1991: Opens two specialty audio stores in Anytown, Aa.
1993: Opens five additional specialty audio stores.
1999: First personal computers hit Media World store shelves.
2002: Sales hit the $2 billion mark for the fiscal year.
2006: Media World exits the appliance business. The space once occupied by appliances creates room for new products, including DVD movies, video games and digital cameras.