The Hudson's Bay Company is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada and the United States. It has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 2001 to 2005.
Zellers was a Canadian chain discount department retailer that was based in Brampton, Ontario. It was founded in 1931 and was acquired by Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1978.
Hudson's Bay, formerly and still colloquially The Bay, is a Canadian department store chain. It is the main brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America.
Metro AG is a German multinational company based in Düsseldorf which operates business membership only cash and carry stores primarily under Metro brand. Until 2020 it was also active in general retail business through Real division, which was sold to an investor consortium.
The Robert Simpson Company Limited, commonly known as Simpson's until 1972, then as Simpsons, and in Quebec sometimes as Simpson, was a Canadian department store chain that had its earliest roots in a store opened in 1858 by Robert Simpson.
El Corte Inglés S.A., headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. El Corte Inglés is Spain's only remaining department store chain. El Corte Inglés has been a member of the International Association of department stores since 1998.
Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain, and the oldest department store in the United States. As of August 2019, it had 38 stores and one outlet store. The flagship store at the Lord & Taylor Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City operated from 1914 until 2019. The chain had been a subsidiary of Le Tote since November 2019.
Saturn is a German chain of electronics stores in Germany and Luxembourg. With Media Markt it constitutes Media-Saturn Holding, owned by the retail trade company Ceconomy, which was spin-off from Metro Group in 2017.
The Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz is the tallest building and the eleventh-tallest structure in Berlin and the 29th-tallest building and tallest hotel-only building in Germany. The 37-floor high-rise is in the northeast of Alexanderplatz in the central Mitte district and has a height of 125 metres.
Leonhard Tietz was born on 3 March 1849 in Birnbaum an der Warthe, Province of Posen, Prussia and died on 14 November 1914). He was a German merchant of Jewish origin.
Hermann Tietz was a German merchant of Jewish origin. Tietz was born on 29 April 1837, in Birnbaum an der Warthe near Posen and died on 3 May 1907 in Berlin). He was buried in the Weißensee Cemetery.
The Schocken Department Store in Stuttgart, built in 1924–26, was one of the most prominent examples of the Modernist New Objectivity movement in German architecture, and demolished despite protests in 1960. Along with other departments stores designed by its architect Erich Mendelsohn, it introduced a style later popularised internationally as Streamline Moderne.
Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. With chain of stores Saturn it constitutes Media-Saturn Holding, owned by the retail company Ceconomy, which was demerged from Metro Group in 2017.
Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH is a German department store chain whose headquarters are in Essen. Until 30 September 2010 the company was a subsidiary of Arcandor AG and was responsible within the group for the business segment of over-the-counter retail.
Galeria Kaufhof GmbH is a German department store chain whose headquarters are in Cologne.It has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1930 to 2010, with various CEOs acting as presidents of the Association over time.
GIB Group was a Belgian conglomerate, consisting of various retail and restaurant chains that existed until 2002. GIB Group owned GB super/hypermarkets, Brico, Inno, Quick restaurants, Lunch Garden self-service restaurants, Auto 5 car wash/service chain, Nopri, GIB Immo, Christiaensen and Unic.
Horten AG (Aktiengesellschaft) was a German department store chain founded by Helmut Horten in 1936 and headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Signa Holding GmbH is Austria’s largest privately owned real estate company. Signa was founded in 2000 by the Tyrolean entrepreneur René Benko. Over the years, the two-man company with an initial focus on classic real estate development has become a pan-European real estate group with more than 150 employees and offices in Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg, Zurich, Bolzano, Berlin and Hamburg. The principal focus of the Signa Group of Companies is the long-term investment in real estate in prime city centre locations. Additionally Signa became the biggest owner of malls in Mid Europe with over 46.000 employees.
Saks Off 5th, formerly Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, is an American off-price department store chain founded in 1990, and a subsidiary of the luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue. Since 2013, both Saks Off 5th and Saks Fifth Avenue have been owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), along with HBC's namesake Canadian department stores. It is comparable to other off-price stores including Nordstrom Rack, and traditional department stores.
