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Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upmarket department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. [1] It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. [ 1 ]
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 United Kingdom [1] (after Harrods). [2]
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 ...
The British department store, which has been sold to Thailand’s Central Group and Austria’s Signa, has long been a retail disruptor, and a believer in shopping-as-entertainment.
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 Group was a holding company of European department stores.At the time of its acquisition by the Central Group and Signa Holding in 2022, it owned the full-line stores Arnotts and Brown Thomas in Ireland, De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, and Selfridges in the United Kingdom.
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. was made managing director. A year later Cole Brothers of Sheffield was added and by 1929 Selfridges combined trading activities formed the biggest retail group in Europe. [2] The Selfridge Provincial Stores were: [3] John Barnes, Finchley Road, London; Barrett Brothers, Clapham [3] Blinkhorn & Son, Gloucester and Stroud