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Selfridges Group, along with KaDeWe Group, is owned by the Central Group from Thailand, which acquired it in 2021 jointly with Austria-based Signa Holding, which lost joint control in late 2023. Shareholders successfully ousted Signa Holding's founder, René Benko , who was pressured to relinquish his voting rights amid the financial turmoil. [ 2 ]
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. [1] It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. [1]
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The marketing techniques which had proved successful at Selfridges' flagship Oxford Street store were employed across the group. The first purchase made by the company was the Bon Marché group in south London, owners of Pratts of Streatham, Barrett Brothers of Clapham and Quin & Axten, as well as the eponymous Brixton flagship. [ 1 ]
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) [1] [3] was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership of Selfridges led to his becoming one of the most respected and wealthy retail magnates in the United Kingdom.
Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London.It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909. [1] Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m 2) of selling space, [2] the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK [1] (after Harrods). [2]
Selfridges in Oxford Street, London in wartime Britain (December 1944) Another store to revolutionize the concept of the department store was Selfridges in London, established in 1909 by American-born Harry Gordon Selfridge on Oxford Street. The company's innovative marketing promoted the radical notion of shopping for pleasure rather than ...
In 2018, the Westons were named Ireland's richest family for the tenth year running, with a wealth of €11.42 billion. [8]In the Sunday Times Rich List 2020 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, "Guy Weston, Galen Weston Jr., George G. Weston and family" placed 8th in the list, with an estimated family fortune of £10.53 billion.