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Its flagship store, known in French as "le Printemps Haussmann" (French: [lə pʁɛ̃tɑ̃ osman]), is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, along with other well-known department stores like the Galeries Lafayette.
Galeries Lafayette (French pronunciation: [ɡalʁi lafajɛt]) is an upmarket French department store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates a number of locations in France and other countries.
It contains many places of cultural, historical and architectural interest, including the Palais Garnier (home to the Paris Opera), on the Place de l'Opéra, together with the InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel's Café de la Paix, as well as Boulevard Haussmann, with the Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, two large department stores, in ...
Other department stores followed the lead of Printemps, with La Maïtrise at Galeries Lafayette in 1921 under Maurice Dufrêne, Pomone at Le Bon Marché in 1923 under Paul Follot and Studium Louvre at Magasins du Louvre in 1924. [10]
FIB controls around 30 subsidiaries, including Hermione People & Brands, which acquired 22 Galeries Lafayette stores in 2018, and an additional three stores and an outlet in 2021.
The design and function of department stores in Germany followed the lead of London (specially Harrods), Paris (Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, Bon Marche), Chicago (Marshall Fields) and New York (Macy, Siegel, Cooper & Co). [105] Specially important were the Wertheim and Tietz companies, both established in the 1890s.
Galeries Lafayette – operating from 2017 to 2021; YKM – operated from 1950 until being acquired by Boyner in 2012 [21] Marks & Spencer; Printemps, Galleria Ataköy – operating from 1988 to 1998 [22]
Au Bon Marché soon had half a dozen or more competitors including Printemps, founded in 1865; La Samaritaine (1869), Bazar de Hotel de Ville ; and Galeries Lafayette (1895). [19] [21] The French gloried in the national prestige brought by the great Parisian stores. [22]