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De Bijenkorf was founded in 1870 by Simon Philip Goudsmit (1845-1889), starting as a small haberdashery shop at 132 Nieuwendijk, one of Amsterdam's oldest streets and to this day a main shopping street. Initially limited to yarn and ribbons, and employing a staff of four, the stock expanded gradually. After the death of Goudsmit in 1889 ...
The first HEMA opened in Amsterdam on 4 November 1926, set up by the owners of the luxury department store De Bijenkorf.Originally, as a price-point retailer at prime locations in town centres, goods were sold using standard prices (hence its name), with everything having a standard price of 10, 25 or 50 cents, and later also 75 and 100 cents.
Simon Goudsmit in 1870 opened a haberdashery shop at Nieuwendijk 132, Magazijn de Bijenkorf, which grew to become the present-day De Bijenkorf chain of department stores. [6] Another successful retailer who started on the Nieuwendijk was Anton Sinkel, who opened a shop at Nieuwendijk 174-176 in 1821, which grew to a chain of stores around the ...
Damrak seen from the Dam. Right is the Bijenkorf and the tower of the Beurs van Berlage. The Damrak is an avenue and partially filled in canal at the centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands, running between Amsterdam Centraal in the north and Dam Square in the south. It is the main street where people arriving at the station enter the centre of the city.
The highlight of this residential area is the Gelderlandplein, a shopping centre with several clothing shops, jewelries, restaurants, supermarkets and others. It is one of the few shopping centres in Amsterdam but while the others, like Magna Plaza and Bijenkorf, are located in the city centre, the Gelderlandplein is in this residential area.
Stadshart Amstelveen is a shopping center that forms the city center of Amstelveen, a suburb of Amsterdam.The shopping center was built around the previous, smaller Binnenhof shopping center and the former 1960 Square, today Stadsplein ("city square"), and was redesignated with its present name in 1998.
The Piazza Center ("the Piazza") is a building and indoor shopping center in the city center of Eindhoven anchored by a branch of the upscale De Bijenkorf department store chain and by a Decathlon sporting goods superstore. [1] Opened in 1969, the Piazza was originally an open-air square, housing a red marble sculpture group designed by Mario ...
De Bijenkorf (Amsterdam) department store built. Querido Verlag (publisher) in business. 1917 1917 Potato riots. [4] Amsterdam-Zuid development begins per Plan Zuid. 1919 Public library opens. Het Schip apartment building erected. Disteldorp and Vogeldorp areas built in Amsterdam-Noord. [31] Population: 647,120. [32] 1920