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Selfridges Group, along with KaDeWe Group, is owned by the Central Group from Thailand, which acquired it in 2021 jointly with Austria-based Signa Holding, which lost joint control in late 2023. Shareholders successfully ousted Signa Holding's founder, René Benko , who was pressured to relinquish his voting rights amid the financial turmoil. [ 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.
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]
With the advent of the Second World War Harry Selfridge left Britain for the safety of America and in 1941 his title of president was removed and he was ousted from the board of Selfridges & Co. [1] The struggling SPS group, reduced to sixteen department stores by this time, was sold to the John Lewis Partnership in 1940. [4]
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.
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Alannah Elizabeth Weston (born January 8, 1972) is an Irish-Canadian [2] businesswoman who is the former chairman [3] of the Selfridges Group. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] She is a member of the Weston family and serves as a director of the family's holding company, Wittington Investments .