Banana Republic is an American upscale clothing and accessories retailer owned by The Gap. It was founded in 1978 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler, who originally called the company "Banana Republic Travel & Safari Clothing Company". In 1983, Gap purchased the company, changed the name to "Banana Republic," and rebranded the stores to achieve a more upscale image. In the 2020s, VP of design Nicole Wiesmann has re-envisioned the brand with ad editorial campaigns that evoke luxury brands like Loro Piana with higher-end garments that have been compared favorably with Ralph Lauren, The Row, and Burberry.
The Galeries Lafayette is an upmarket French department store chain, the biggest in Europe. Its flagship store is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris but it now operates a number of locations in France and other countries. In 2019, Galeries Lafayette recorded earnings of over five billion euros. It is a part of the company Groupe Galeries Lafayette and has been a member of the International Association of department stores since 1960.
Torbalı is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 577 km2, and its population is 207,840 (2022).
Mexx is a fashion brand of Turkish company Eroğlu Holding that was created in the Netherlands by Rattan Chadha in 1986 by merging his brands Moustache and Emmanuelle. The brand's name is a combination of two of Chadha's previous business ventures, a men's line "Moustache" and a women's line "Emanuelle" It takes the first letter of both brands and add two kisses to it: Mexx. M (oustache) + E (manuelle) + XX = MEXX. The advertising campaign "Everything should be XX" from 1986 caught on attention and Mexx became popular.
Bağdat Avenue is one of the most important high streets on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It runs approximately 14 km (8.7 mi) from Maltepe in the east to Kadıköy in the west, almost paralleling the coastline of the Sea of Marmara. The most important part of the street runs 6 km (3.7 mi) from Bostancı to Kızıltoprak within the district of Kadıköy. Bağdat Avenue is usually seen as the counterpart of Istiklal Avenue on the European side of the city in terms of its importance and glamour although it lacks the fine heritage of historic buildings to be found on Istiklal Avenue with almost all its architecture modern.
Boyner Group is one of two major groups, alongside Beymen Group that grew out of Osman Boyner's textile and clothing manufacturing and retailing enterprises. "Boyner" is also the name of the Boyner Group division Boyner Büyük Mağazacılık, which operates the Boyner department store chain.
Vakko is a Turkish luxury fashion company founded by Vitali Hakko survived by his son Cem Hakko. It produces and retails textiles, leather goods, and accessories.
Cem Boyner is a Turkish businessman in the textile industry, owner of department stores, and was a short-time politician.
Zorlu Center is a multiple-use complex in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey containing an upscale shopping mall, a five-star Raffles hotel and a Cinemaximum megaplex, as well as residences and offices. It is home to Zorlu PSM, the largest performing arts center in the country, as well as the country's first Apple Store.
Galataport is a 400,000-square-metre (4,300,000 sq ft) mixed-use development located along 1.2 km (0.75 mi) of shore in the Karaköy neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey on the European shore of the Bosporus strait near its confluence with the Golden Horn right in the heart of the city. It includes the city's cruise ship terminal, around 250 shops and restaurants, a Peninsula hotel, the Istanbul Modern art museum, and other cultural and entertainment facilities; the complex also hosts festivals.
A101 Yeni Mağazacılık A.Ş. or often shortened as A101 is a Turkish retail company founded in 2008, with their headquarters being located at Üsküdar, İstanbul.
Metropol İstanbul is a mixed-use complex in Ertuğrul in the Ataşehir district on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. The complex consists of three towers, a residential tower, an office tower and a main tower, a hotel, and one of the largest shopping centers in Turkey with a 16 screen cinema. The project was proposed in 2011. The first phase of the building complex was opened in 2018 while the shopping mall portion opened in 2019. The residential and office blocks measure more than 800 thousand m². The complex cost $800 million to construct and is now the second tallest building in Istanbul and Turkey.
Vadistanbul is a shopping center and mixed-use complex in the Ayazağa neighborhood, Sarıyer district, Istanbul. It forms the northern edge of the Istanbul Central Business District, a series of clustered residential and office towers, shopping malls, hospitals, universities, venues, etc. stretching 10km northward from Taksim Square. It opened in 2017 and is 103,000 m2 (1,110,000 sq ft) in size including a 2,000-square-meter decorative pool with a water and flame jet show. Seyrantepi station on line M2 of the Istanbul Metro is east of the area and is connected by a funicular, Istanbul's first monorail line, that brings passengers to Vadistanbul station. It is a project of Invest Construction.
FLO both a footwear corporation based in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 1960. It employs about 15,000 people as of 2024. Its division FLO Mağazacılık operates more than 850 stores in 30 countries, of which about 500 in Turkey as well as Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, and Kenya. It also operates e-commerce channels serving multiple national markets as well as a awholesale network and merchandising.
DeFacto is a Turkish retail clothing company founded in 2003, the second-largest in Turkey, with annual sales expected to be 11 billion Turkish lira in 2025
Ali Osman Boyner is a Turkish businessman, the founder of a number of large Turkish clothing manufacturing and retailing enterprises including Altınyıldız, from which sprung Boyner Holding, and Beymen, one of the two most upscale Turkish department store chains.
Eroğlu Holding is a company based in Avcılar, Istanbul, Turkey that manufactures and retails clothing. Since 2015 it has owned the brand Mexx, with about 300 stores and about 5000 total sales points in 56 countries at the time, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ramsey is a Turkish clothing retailer, designer, manufacturer and marketing enterprise founded by Remzi Gür and owned by Gürmen Group, which also operates the KİP brand. Ramsey retails its own clothing under its house brand in its boutiques, but also 40% of Ramsey's production is for other, foreign, brands.
Atelier Rebul is a brand of fragrances, cosmetics, hair care products et al., based in Istanbul, Türkiye. Its roots go back to the Rebul Pharmacy on the city's famous Istiklal Caddesi, which French pharmacist Jean Cesar Reboul founded in 1895. It operates an eponymous chain of own-brand retail stores in Türkiye and other countries.
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