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La Samaritaine (French pronunciation: [la samaʁitɛn]) is a large department store in the first arrondissement of Paris; the nearest metro station is Pont-Neuf. [1] Founded in 1870 by Ernest Cognacq it is now owned by the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH .
DFS T Galleria in City of Dreams, Macau DFS T Galleria in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. DFS Group (DFS) (Chinese: 迪斐世) is a global travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. Established in 1960, its global network consists of stores located in major global airports and downtown locations featuring over 750 brands.
La Semeuse de Paris was a consumer credit company owned by the La Samaritaine department store in Paris. It sold coupons to working class consumers, who paid in installments. They could spend the coupons at La Samaritaine or other stores. The Art Deco building that housed the company is now a historical monument.
Robert Warren Miller (born May 23, 1933) is an American-British billionaire, entrepreneur, co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and sailing champion.He is the father of Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg, and Pia Getty, dubbed by tabloids and high society as The Miller Sisters.
Frantz Jourdain (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃ts ʒuʁdɛ̃]; 3 October 1847 – 22 August 1935) was a Belgian architect and author.He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store built in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in three stages between 1904 and 1928.
Decoherence-free subspaces, subspace of a system's Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the environment; Demand Flexibility Service, a demand response system for electricity supplies in the United Kingdom; DFS Kopernikus (Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus), a series of satellites
AS Samaritaine is a professional football club of Martinique, based in the northeastern town Sainte-Marie. Founded in 1920, [1] their home games are staged at their Xercès-Louis stadium, which is named after a Martinique-born French international footballer of the 1950s, Xercès Louis. In 2009, the club were relegated due to financial problems.
In 1993, DFS was floated on the stock market as DFS Furniture Company plc and valued at £271 million. [6] This brought the Kirkham family to the attention of thieves, who in 1994, broke into the family home at Sprotbrough while they were on holiday. The burglars bound and gagged the housekeeper and made off with money and jewels worth £2.4 ...