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Hamashbir Lazarchan ( he, המשביר לצרכן) is an Israeli chain of department stores. Hamashbir consists of 33 branches across the country.New Hamashbir Lazarchan Ltd.
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It is distinct from its predecessors, the consumer cooperative Hamashbir (1916–1930), reorganised as the wholesale supplier Hamashbir Hamerkazi in 1930. The original Hamashbir was set up with the goal of supplying the Jewish communities of Palestine with food at affordable prices during the terrible shortage years of the First World War.


History

The chain was founded by the
Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...
in 1947. In 2003, Rami Shavit and a group of investors acquired the department store chain, operating the company under the new name, New Hamashbir Lazarchan Ltd.New HaMashbir Latzarchan Ltd.
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In 2007, the company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with a NIS 6.6 million stock offering and bonds valued at NIS 50 million.


Branches

In 2011, a new branch of Hamashbir opened at
Zion Square Zion Square ( he, כיכר ציון, ''Kikar Tziyon'') is a public square in Jerusalem, located at the intersection of Jaffa Road, Ben Yehuda Street, Herbert Samuel Street, and Yoel Moshe Salomon Street. The square is one of the vertices of ...
in Jerusalem. The 7-story building incorporates elements of two 19th-century historic buildings previously slated for preservation. The building was designed by Jerusalem architect Amazia Aaronson. It faces the square and Jaffa Road.A new consumer shrine?
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