Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Building, Birmingham. Selfridge stores are known for architectural innovation and excellence, and are tourist destinations in their own right. [37] The original London store was designed by Daniel Burnham, who also created the Marshall Field's main store in his home town of Chicago.
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. He was known as the 'Earl of Oxford Street ...
MILAN — The closing of the deal between Thailand’s Central Group and Signa to buy Selfridges Group under a 50/50 partnership is expected by the end of June, but the wheels have already been ...
The new company was over subscribed and opened with a working capital of £3.3 million. Stores in the group retained their local, often long-established, identities but were united under the banner of 'SPS'. The marketing techniques which had proved successful at Selfridges' flagship Oxford Street store were employed across the group.
Thailand’s Central Group and Austria’s Signa, which purchased Selfridges Group in a pre-Christmas deal said to be worth 4 billion pounds, are taking the long view on U.K. an
Selfridges nameboard. Selfridges was 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 necessity and its techniques were adopted by modern department stores the world over.
Selfridges Group is a retail business that operates 25 department stores (as of January 2024) in four chains across three countries in Europe: [1] Arnotts (Ireland) Brown Thomas (Ireland) De Bijenkorf (The Netherlands) Selfridges (United Kingdom)