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Location: 87–135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, ... Harrods is a Grade II listed luxury department store on Brompton Road in ... The UK's second-biggest shop, ...
Harrods Group (Holding) Limited, doing business as the Harrods Group, is a British holding company that owns the Harrods luxury department store in Knightsbridge, London, England. The original Harrods store was founded in 1849 by Charles Henry Harrod , and the first holding company, Harrod's Stores Limited, was formed and listed on the London ...
Knightsbridge is home to many expensive shops, including the department stores Harrods and Harvey Nichols, and flagship stores of many British and international fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik, and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that cater to wealthy individuals.
Also operates a builders merchant (C.T. Baker, the original business) and two franchise branches of the Budgen's supermarket chain, including the largest by floor area in the UK in Holt and a smaller branch in Aylsham. The CT Baker group also owns a number of other retail properties in Holt.
Between 1937 and 1980, Harrods Estates opened in a further six locations which have since closed, four within the UK and two international offices. [3] In 2005 it opened a second office at 61 Park Lane, Mayfair which remains today. [3] 2013 saw the launch of a third office, located in Chelsea, London. [9]
The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London opened on 15 March 1909 and is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods). [3] Other Selfridges stores opened in the Manchester area at the Trafford Centre (1998) and at Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).
In October 2003, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts opened their first store location in the United Kingdom. The store situated in the world-famous Harrods department store in London became one of 35 stores in the UK, but it closed in June 2011.
Hans Place (usually pronounced / ˈ h æ n z / HANZ) is a garden square in the Knightsbridge district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, immediately south of Harrods in SW1. It is named after Sir Hans Sloane , 1st Baronet, PRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), physician and collector, notable for his bequest, which ...