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department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic app ...

s. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. Note: "trading" is British English for "in operation".

Africa

Botswana

Choppies Choppies Enterprises Limited is a Botswana multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. The retailer initially sold only food-based (both fresh groceries and wholesale long-life foods) and other f ...

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* Woolworths *

Sefalana Sefalana, is Botswana's second largest food retailer. It operates more than 1200 stores across Africa. The company's headquarters are in Gaborone, Botswana. Sefalana is a public company listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange. History Sefalana ...

Spar SPAR, originally DESPAR, styled as DE SPAR, is a Dutch multinational that provides branding, supplies and support services for independently owned and operated food retail stores. It was founded in the Netherlands in 1932, by Adriaan van Well, ...

Pep Pep is energy or high spirits; it may refer to: * Pep band, an ensemble of instrumentalists * Pep, the dog in ''Putt-Putt'' (series) * Neilson Dairy confectionery brand * Pep, New Mexico * Pep, Texas * Pep Cereal, by Kellogg * Pep Comics, by MLJ ...

Pick n Pay Stores The Pick n Pay Group is a retail business in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. The Group operates through multiple store formats under three brands – Pick n Pay, Boxer and TM Supermarkets. Pick n Pay also operates one of the largest on ...

Ghana

Melcom Melcom is a supermarket chain consisting of 42 shops spread all over Ghana. It was started in 1989 by Indian magnate Bhagwan Khubchandani. His late father, Ramchand Khubchandani, had arrived in the then Gold Coast in 1929 as a 14-year-old to wo ...

* Shoprite * Woolworths - stores closed in 2019

Kenya

Tuskys Tuskys (formerly Tusker Mattress), is a Kenyan supermarket chain. It was one of the large supermarket chains in the Great Lakes Area. It employed nearly 6,150 people, 6,000+ in Kenya, and 150 in Uganda. Location The head office of Tuskys is ...

Naivas Naivas Supermarket, often referred to simply as "Naivas", is the largest supermarket chain in Kenya, with 84 outlets as of June 2022. A that time, Naivas was the largest supermarket chain in Kenya, ahead of Quick Mart Limited with 51 outlets in ...

Uchumi Supermarkets Uchumi Supermarkets, often referred to simply as Uchumi, is a Kenyan supermarket chain. The word means "economy" in Swahili. Overview Uchumi is headquartered in Kenya. , Uchumi is one of a number of Kenyan supermarket chains that serve Kenya, ...

Carrefour Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, whic ...

Nigeria

* Shoprite *

South Africa

* Ackermans * Cash & Carry *

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* Edgars *

Makro Makro is a Dutch international brand of warehouse clubs, also called cash and carry stores. Makro was founded by SHV Holdings, a Dutch conglomerate based in Utrecht in partnership with German company Metro AG, with the first warehouse club ...

* Shoprite *

Truworths Truworths is a Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the coun ...

* Woolworths *

Tanzania

* Shoprite *

Uchumi Uchumi Supermarkets, often referred to simply as Uchumi, is a Kenyan supermarket chain. The word means "economy" in Swahili. Overview Uchumi is headquartered in Kenya. , Uchumi is one of a number of Kenyan supermarket chains that serve Kenya, ...

* Woolworths

Tunisia

* Géant

Zimbabwe

* Edgars

North America

Canada

Currently trading: *

Canadian Tire Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations a ...

– auto repair garage, hardware, home renovations, sports, garden centre, electronics, auto parts, furniture, food, housewares, towels; franchised stores with independent owners *

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation (doing business as Costco Wholesale and also known simply as Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores (warehouse club). As of 2022, Costco i ...

– Canadian unit of US-based chain; warehouse superstore, food, electronics, furniture, clothing, car repair *

Fields Fields may refer to: Music * Fields (band), an indie rock band formed in 2006 * Fields (progressive rock band), a progressive rock band formed in 1971 * ''Fields'' (album), an LP by Swedish-based indie rock band Junip (2010) * "Fields", a song b ...

– discount chain owned by FHC Holdings Ltd.; chain was purchased by Hudson's Bay Company in 1981 but broke away in 2012 *

Hart Hart often refers to: * Hart (deer) Hart may also refer to: Organizations * Hart Racing Engines, a former Formula One engine manufacturer * Hart Skis, US ski manufacturer * Hart Stores, a Canadian chain of department stores * Hart's Reptile Wo ...

- Department store chain founded in 1960. Stores located across Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. *

Holt Renfrew Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited (doing business as Holt Renfrew and known colloquially as Holt's) is a Canadian luxury department store chain founded in 1837 by William S. Henderson. It has been owned by the Weston family since 1986, and was previo ...

– high-end department store *

Holt Renfrew Ogilvy Holt Renfrew Ogilvy, formerly and still colloquially Ogilvy (french: La Maison Ogilvy), is a Canadian department store located on Saint Catherine Street West in the downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has been owned by the Selfridges ...

– high-end department store in Montreal * Hudson's Bay – department store owned by

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

(HBC). Formerly called The Bay *

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, and ...

– US-based high end department store *

The North West Company The North West Company is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories, as well as the US states of Alaska, Hawaii, and several other countries and US terri ...

– retail, primarily northern and smaller towns *

Real Canadian Superstore Real Canadian Superstore is a chain of supermarkets owned by Canadian food retailing giant Loblaw Companies. Its name is often shortened to Superstore, or, less commonly, RCSS. Originating in Western Canada in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the b ...

- chain of grocery stores that also carry electronics, fashion, household items and have instore services such as pharmacies, wine shops, GoodLife Fitness locations and gas stations. Located in five provinces in Canada. *

Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street and ...

– high-end department store *

Simons Simons is a surname of Scandinavian origins and a variant of Sigmundsson, a patronymic surname with roots in proto-Germanic ''*segaz'' and ''*mundō'', giving a rough translation of "protection through victory". Notable people A * Alan ...

– Department store founded in 1840. Stores in Québec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. * Taylor's – Quebec department store *

Walmart Canada Walmart Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Walmart which is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. It was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company. Originally consisting of disco ...

– part of US multinational

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...

Winners Winners Merchants International L.P is a chain of off-price Canada, Canadian department stores owned by TJX Companies. It offers brand name clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, fine jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Products are at a ...

Homesense HomeSense (stylized as Homesense in Europe and the United States) is a Canadian chain of discount home furnishing stores owned by TJX Companies. It originated in Canada in 2001, and was expanded to Europe in 2008 and the United States in 2017. O ...

Marshalls Marshalls is an American chain of off-price department stores owned by TJX Companies. Marshalls has over 1,000 American stores, including larger stores named Marshalls Mega Store, covering 42 states and Puerto Rico, and 61 stores in Canada. M ...

– part of US company

TJX Companies The TJX Companies, Inc. (abbreviated TJX) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Discount store, off-price department store corporation, headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was formed as a subsidiary of Zayre, Zayre ...

Defunct: * Adilman's Department Store – Saskatoon, SK (1921–1974) * Army & Navy Stores *

Ayre and Sons Ayre & Sons, Ltd. was a department store chain in Newfoundland, Canada. The chain was formed in 1859 in St. John's, Newfoundland by Charles R. Ayre. Ayre opened his flagship store on Water Street in St. John's in 1859. After Newfoundland joined ...

– Newfoundland-based department store chain; once operated as many as 80 stores coast-to-coast (1859–1991) * Biway – discount store based in Ontario, defunct 2001 *

The Bon Marché The Bon Marché, whose French name translates to "the good market" or "the good deal", was a department store chain launched in Seattle, Washington, United States, in 1890 by Edward Nordhoff. The name was influenced by Le Bon Marché, the note ...

– independent discount variety store in St. John's, Newfoundland 1919–1971 *

Bowring Brothers Bowring Brothers Ltd. (or simply Bowring) was a Canadian operator of retail stores, mostly focused on gifts and home decor, throughout Canada. History Bowring was formed in 1811 as a private company by Benjamin Bowring and his family, who had ...

– St. John's, NL, department store, also national home decor store chain 1811–2019 * Bretton's – high-end department store, 1985–1996 * Caban – Club Monaco's Home Store, 2000–2006 *

Caplan's Caplan's (C. Caplan Limited) was a department store in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Caplan's began as a small dry goods shop in 1897, and operated over time at various locations throughout Ottawa. In 1916, the store moved to Rideau Street, where it g ...

– Ottawa, Ontario department store; founded in 1897, closed in 1984 *

Consumers Distributing Consumers Distributing (known in Quebec as Distribution aux Consommateurs, and informally as Consumers) was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996. At its peak, the company operated 243 outlets in Canad ...

– Canadian catalogue discount retailer (formerly Consumers Distributing Ltd., 1957 to 1996) *

Eaton's The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...

– went bankrupt in 1999; acquired by Sears Canada; defunct in 2002; as with the closure of Woodward's a decade earlier (see below), the vacancies left by Eaton's stores sparked a number of major shopping mall renovations and reconfigurations across the country *

Freimans A.J. Freiman Limited, or Freimans ( ), was a landmark department store at 73 Rideau Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1918 by Archibald J. Freiman. Archibald Jacob Freiman was born in Lithuania in 1880, and emigrated to Hamilton, On ...

– longtime Ottawa retailer, acquired by the Bay in 1972 *

Home Outfitters Home Outfitters (known as Déco Découverte in Quebec; originally called Bed, Bath & More) was a Canadian retail home decor chain, owned by Hudson's Bay Company, that sold bedding, towel A towel is a piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for d ...

– home goods store, subsidiary of Hudsons Bay Company, 1999–2019 *

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– discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967–1978 *

Kmart Kmart Corporation ( , doing business as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American retail company that owns a chain of big box department stores. The company is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The company was inc ...

Canada – discount department store, usually in the suburbs, created by S.S. Kresge sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997; many of these stores closed outright; the few that remained were converted to HBC's

Zellers Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...

banner * Laliberté – Quebec City department store, founded in 1867, closed 2020 * Larocque's Department Store 1923–1971 Ottawa, Ontario; constructed in 1923 to cater to the Francophone community of Lowertown; William Noffke made additions to the space in 1930; Management and ownership taken over by Joe Vineberg 1931 with relatives Harry and Sol Goodman of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Closed circa 1970–1971; now the Mercury Court Building, housing offices of Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. and shops. Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. renovated and expanded the space from 1989 to 1993. Features include a Mercury weathervane by the American sculptor W. H. Mullen, which was rescued from the Sun Life Building, demolished in 1949. The building was included amongst other architecturally interesting and historically significant buildings in

Doors Open Ottawa Doors Open Ottawa is an annual event held in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that gives the public access to many of the city's unique and historically significant buildings. Among the buildings included are government offices, museums, radi ...

, 2012. * Goodman Department Store-

New Glasgow New Glasgow is a town in Pictou County, in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated on the banks of the East River of Pictou, which flows into Pictou Harbour, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait. The town's population was 9,075 ...

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-Truro in Nova Scotia-Ottawa-Montreal. Established in 1904 by Harry Goodman, his brother Sol Goodman and the Vineburg Family under the name Vineburg Goodman & Co. Goodman's was northern Nova Scotia's first and largest department store with 34 departments. The Ottawa store operated under the name of Larocque noted above. Goodman Co. closed in Antigonish, New Glasgow and Truro in 1984–1985. The stores were redeveloped shopping centres in Antigonish by developer Brian MacLeod and in New Glasgow the largest store by Brian MacLeod, and lawyers Richard Goodman Q.C. (grandson of former owner) and Gregory MacDonald Q.C. * LW Stores – furniture, hardware, home, grocery, health & beauty, clothing liquidation retailer *

Marks & Spencer Marks and Spencer Group plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks's or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer with headquarters in Paddington, London that specialises in selling clothing, beauty, home ...

– British retailer's Canadian stores first opened 1973 and closed 1999 * Metropolitan – discount department store chain (1908–1997); sister chain of

SAAN Stores SAAN Stores Ltd. was a Canadian chain of discount department stores founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba. SAAN is short for Surplus Army, Air Force, Navy. The chain's head office was in Mississauga, Ontario, and its main distribution center and Stores ...

and Greenberg Stores, later converted to the SAAN name *

Miracle Mart Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s. History The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...

– discount grocery store operated by Steinberg's, defunct 1992; some outlets of the spinoff grocery chain, Miracle Food Mart, were acquired by Dominion Stores *

Morgan's Henry Morgan & Company ( colloquially Morgan's) was a Canadian department store chain founded by Henry Morgan in 1845. The first store was located in Montreal, and expanded to include 11 stores in Ontario and Quebec before being bought by Hudson's ...

– merged with Hudson's Bay Company *

Murphy-Gamble Murphy-Gamble Limited was a long-time department store in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The store was located at 118 Sparks Street in a 1909 building designed by C.P. Meredith, and for years used the slogan "Ottawa's Smart Store". Murph ...

– Ottawa store, acquired by

Simpson's 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. ...

Ogilvy's Charles Ogilvy Limited, or Ogilvy's, was a department store in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1887. For much of the 20th century, Ogilvy's was one of Ottawa's higher-end department stores. Charles Ogilvy (1861-1950) was born in Edinburg ...

(Charles Ogilvy Limited) – Ottawa-area chain, merged with Robinson's in the 1980s, defunct 1990s * Compagnie Paquet – Quebec City department store; founded in 1850; merged with Syndicat de Québec in the 1970s, closed in 1981 * Peoples – 1914–1995; discount store closed at the same time as its parent company

Wise Stores Wise Stores was a department store chain located in Eastern Canada. It was founded in 1930 in Montreal by Alex Wise and constituted on March 31, 1949, as Wise Stores inc. By October 1988, the company had 28 stores and acquired 15 Continental ou ...

; not to be confused with the Canadian jewelry store chain * Pollack – Quebec City department store; two stores in Quebec City and one in Montreal; operated from 1915 to 1978 * Prange & Prangeway – H. C. Prange Co.; opened in 1887; chain was acquired by

Younkers Younkers Inc. is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa. The retailer had evolved over more than 150 years to include a presence in locations throughout Iowa ...

in the autumn of 1992 * S&R Department Store – discount store in Kingston (1959–2009) and Belleville. *

S.S. Kresge Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the ...

– smaller, downtown locations *

– discount stores (1947–2008); most of chain's locations and SAAN name bought on asset basis by The Bargain! Shop *

Sam's Club Sam's West, Inc. (doing business as Sam's Club) is an American chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Walmart Inc., founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton as Sam’s Wholesale Club. , Sam's Cl ...

– opened 2005 and expanded to 6 locations; closed in 2009 *

Sayvette Sayvette was a discount department store in Canada from 1961 to 1977. The chain was announced in February 1961, and launched its first store at Thorncliffe Market Place in a Toronto suburb (now East York Town Centre) that September. Over 70,000 cu ...

– discount department store, defunct 1970s *

Sears Canada Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Sears� ...

– Canadian unit of Sears (1984–2018) *

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– Ontario chain of retail department stores; various locations from Sarnia to Kingston; founded in 1961 by Samuel Joseph Lipson (August 15, 1911 – November 12, 2006). A discount department store with the slogan "Sentry – Guards your dollar", this small regional chain closed in the early 1980s. * Shop-Rite – catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company, 1970s-1982 *

– acquired by the

and closed 1991; name now owned by

2001–2008; now owned by 1373639 Alberta Ltd, a Sears Canada shell company * Simpsons-Sears Limited – name retired and renamed

Inc.; 1952–1984 * Spencer's – Western Canada, bought by

* Syndicat de Quebec – Quebec City department store; founded in 1867; closed in 1981 * Target – Newfoundland discount variety store chain (1981–1995); never related to the American company *

Target Canada Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary was formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases fr ...

– part of US giant

Target Corporation Target Corporation (doing business as Target and stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh largest retailer in the United States, and a compon ...

(2013–2015) *

Towers Department Stores Towers, operating as Bonimart in Quebec, was a Canadian discount department store chain owned by the Oshawa Group, a now-defunct grocery retailer and distributor. History Towers Marts began as a New York-based chain. The first Canadian store wa ...

/BoniMart – sold to Zellers in 1990 and name retired in 1991, with closure of final stores *

– similar to Hart Stores *

Woodward's Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company. History Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...

– Western Canada; defunct 1993; most stores converted to

and The Bay; its closure sparked a wave of major renovations and reconfigurations in malls across Canada between 1993 and the early 2000s *

Woolco Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...

– discount department store, usually in the suburbs, acquired by Wal-Mart in 1994 *

Woolworth's Woolworth, Woolworth's, or Woolworths may refer to: Businesses * F. W. Woolworth Company, the original US-based chain of "five and dime" (5¢ and 10¢) stores * Woolworths Group (United Kingdom), former operator of the Woolworths chain of shops ...

– closed Canadian stores in 1994, though some became Woolco (such as the

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outlet); others that did not close outright were reconfigured and rebranded as

The Bargain! Shop The Bargain! Shop Holdings, Inc., also known as TB!S, is a Canadian discount variety store chain operating in all English language, Anglophone Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces in Canada. The Bargain! Shop originated as a closeout s ...

* XS Cargo – discount retailer chain dealing in clearance items; defunct 2014 *

Yaohan or ; ) was a Japanese retail group, founded in 1930 by and his wife . Initially a single shop, it was expanded by their son Kazuo Wada into a major supermarket chain with most retail outlets located in Shizuoka prefecture, south of Tokyo. It ...

– single location in Vancouver of Japanese chain in the late 1990s *

– discount retailer chain (1931–2020), store leases purchased by

in 2011, with brand name replaced & stores changed to Target in 2013. The last two stores using the Zellers name, were closed in 2020.

El Salvador

* Carrion – department store chain in El Salvador *

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

Siman SIMÁN is a department store from El Salvador, has 100 years of operation and currently has regionalized along Central America. History SIMÁN was founded on December 8, 1921, by Don J. J. Simán, of Palestinian origin, when he decided to open ...

– department store chain in Central America with stores in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica Defunct: * Sanborns – branch of Mexico's exclusive department store chain

Mexico

* C&A
Cimaco
*

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

– biggest department store chain in Mexico *

El Palacio de Hierro El Palacio de Hierro (officially ''El Palacio de Hierro S.A. de C.V.''; en, The Iron Palace) is an upscale chain of department stores in Mexico. Its flagship store in Polanco, Mexico City, reopened in 2016 after an extensive renovation of US$300 ...

– high-end department store *

– US-based high-end department store * Sanborns – division of Carso Comercial, nationwide, famous for their coffee-shop-style restaurant, bars, and compact merchandise areas selling limited selections of giftable merchandise, pharmacy, newsstand, and cosmetics. * Sears Roebuck de México – division of Carso Comercial *

Suburbia A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include Commercial area, commercial and mixed-use development, mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a ...

Puerto Rico

Burlington Coat Factory Burlington, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American national off-price department store retailer, and a division of Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation with more than 1,000 stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico, with it ...

* Capri (department store) * J. C. Penney *

Macy's Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...

T.J. Maxx TJ Maxx (stylized as T•J•maxx) is an American department store chain, selling at prices generally lower than other major similar stores. It has more than 1,000 stores in the United States, making it one of the largest clothing retailers in ...

Topeka Topeka ( ; Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central Uni ...

United States

South America

Argentina

Defunct: * Casa Tía *

Harrods Harrods Limited is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. It is currently owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. The Harrods brand also applies to other ...

Bolivia

Big Sur Big Sur () is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of California between Carmel and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery. Big Sur ha ...

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Brazil

Currently trading: * C&A *

Daslu Daslu is an upmarket multi-brand boutique-department store in São Paulo, Brazil. The boutique is known as the "fashion designers mecca" of Brazil as it houses more than 60 labels plus 30 store-in-stores and is the place where Brazilian socialite ...

Lojas Americanas Lojas Americanas is a Brazilian retail chain founded in 1929 in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, by the Austrian-Brazilian Max Landesmann and Americans John Lee, Glen Matson, James Marshall and Batson Borger. Currently, the company has 1,94 ...

Lojas Renner Lojas Renner (Portuguese for Renner Stores) is the largest Brazilian department stores clothing company, headquartered in Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was the first Brazilian corporation with 100% of shares traded on Stock Exch ...

Lojas Riachuelo Lojas Riachuelo (English: ''Riachuelo Stores'') is a Brazilian department store company founded in 1947 in the city of Natal, Brazil. Currently, the company operates 302 stores. The company its headquartered in Natal, and have a central offi ...

* Máquina de Vendas Defunct: *

Mappin Mappin was a traditional department store in Brazil, based in São Paulo, with the official name of Casa Anglo-Brasileira S/A. With origins in 1774 in the city of Sheffield, England, it was later brought to Brazil by the brothers Walter and Hebe ...

Mesbla Mesbla S.A. was a chain of Brazilian department stores that began operations in 1912 as a subsidiary of a French firm, and had its bankruptcy declared in 1999. History The beginning In the building number 83 of the Assembleia street, in t ...

* Muricy *

Chile

Currently trading: * Almacenes París – belongs to the Cencosud Group *

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– largest and oldest department store in Chile *

La Polar La Polar is the fourth largest retail company in Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a lo ...

* Ripley * Abcdin Defunct: * J. C. Penney – two stores in Santiago area (one in Alto Las Condes as a full-store, one in Parque Arauco as an only-furniture store); closed because of poor sales in 1999; converted to Almacenes París and Casa&Ideas stores. *

Gala-Sears Gala-Sears (Grandes ALmacenes de América-Sears) was the subsidiary of Sears Roebuck in Chile, which formally began operations on April 2, 1982, the day after the opening of Mall Parque Arauco. It was one of the first international commercial ventu ...

– five stores (one full store and four minor stores) in Santiago area; Chilean division of Sears; closed because of poor sales in 1983; converted to Falabella. * Muricy – two stores in Santiago area; closed because of bankruptcy in 1990; converted to Almacenes París. Supermarkets and discount stores: *

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– supermarket chain, belongs to the Cencosud Group *

Líder Líder (Spanish for ''Leader'') is a Chilean hypermarket chain originally owned and operated by Distribución y Servicio (DyS) but sold to US American corporation Walmart in 2009.

– supermarket chain, belongs to the D&S Company, a

joint venture

Colombia

Currently trading: * Casa Tía *

– Chilean company; opened first store in Colombia in 2006 *

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Defunct: *

* Ripley

Ecuador

* Almacenes Tía * Almacenes De Prati – department store and retail business; clothing, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, and home goods * Comandato

Paraguay

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Peru

Currently trading: *

* Oeschle * Ripley Defunct: * Almacenes París – was end operations in 2020 * Saga – sold to Falabella (Chile) and rebranded as Saga Falabella in 1995 Supermarkets and discount stores *

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- hypermarket property of Chilean

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Plaza Vea Supermercados Peruanos S.A. (Spanish: ''Peruvian Supermarkets'') is a Peruvian second largest supermarket chain. Although its operations were concentrated around Lima at first, the chain started to expand in Peru by opening stores in Arequipa, Chi ...

– hypermarket property of Supermercados Peruanos *

Tottus Tottus is a chain of Chilean hypermarkets that competes with Wong, Metro and Plaza Vea supermarkets in Peru. Tottus also operates stores in Perú.

– hypermarket property of Chilean Falabella Holdings *

Vivanda Vivanda is a Peruvian supermarket chain with 8 stores located in Lima. It was launched by Supermercados Peruanos S.A. in 2005. Vivanda offers grocery products, health and beauty aids and an Interbank Interbank is a Peruvian provider of finan ...

– supermarket property of Supermercados Peruanos *

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– supermarket property of Chilean Cencosud

Uruguay

Defunct: * London París

Venezuela

Currently trading: *

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* Traki Defunct: *

- sold to Organización Cisneros in 1984, rebranded to Maxy's until it became defunct in 1995. Supermarkets and discount stores *

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Asia

Brunei

Hua Ho Department Store Hua Ho Department Store is a retail department store chain in Brunei. It was founded by Lau Gim Kok in 1947; since then, the business has expanded rapidly in the country, followed by few agricultural farms to supply produce and poultry to the sup ...

Cambodia

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China

China Resources Vanguard China Resources Vanguard, doing business as China Resources Vanguard Shop or Vanguard (), operates the supermarket chains of China Resources. It is the third-largest supermarket chain in Hong Kong. As of 31 December 2014, there are 4866 shops o ...

Beijing Hualian The Beijing Hualian Group (, using the trademark BHG) is a leading People's Republic of China, Chinese retailer founded in 1998, headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the fifteen large national retail enterprises supported by the Ministry of Com ...

* C&A *

Dashang Group Dashang Group (), headquartered in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, operates department stores, Xinmate (New Mart) supermarkets and other retail business. It is the largest retailer in Northeast China. General Dashang Group with its headquarter ...

* Isetan and Mitsukoshi Department Stores *

Jiuguang Department Store Jiuguang () is a Chinese department store chain, a joint venture between Chongguang Department Store and Jiubai Group () of Shanghai. Chongguang Department Store is operated by the Lifestyle International Group (), which continues Sogo's op ...

* Pacific Sogo *

Parkson Parkson Holdings Berhad (doing business as Parkson; ; ) is an Asian-based department store operator with an extensive network of 131 stores as of 2017, spanning approximately 2.1 million m2 of retail space across cities in Malaysia, China, Vietnam ...

Defunct: * Seiyu – sold to Beijing Hualian Group *

Wing On Wing On () is a department store company in Hong Kong. The company is owned by a Hong Kong listed company Wing On Company International Limited (), incorporated in Bermuda. The holding company of the listed company itself is Wing On Internation ...

– after civil war in 1949, the store's business moved outside China to Hong Kong; its properties and asset in China were nationalized under the Communist system *

Hong Kong

Currently trading: * APiTA *

c!ty'super , stylised in logos as "c!ty'super" (the company name is City Super Limited), is a retail chain in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Positioned as a mega lifestyle specialty store, its core format of upmarket supermarkets sell primarily fresh produce and ...

– since 1996 *

Citistore Citistore (Hong Kong) Limited () or Citistore () is a department store company in Hong Kong. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henderson Land Development, a flagship enterprise owned by Dr. Lee Shau Kee. Established in 1989, it has branches in ...

Harvey Nichols Harvey Nichols is a British luxury department store chain founded in 1831, at its flagship store in Knightsbridge, London. It sells designer fashion collections for men and women, fashion accessories, beauty products, fine wines and luxury f ...

JUSCO is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" (or hypermarket) and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of the ÆON supermarket chain. The JUSCO name was adopte ...

– part of

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Lane Crawford Lane Crawford (HK) Limited () is a retail company founded in 1850 with speciality department stores selling luxury goods in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Its headquarters are in , Wong Chuk Hang. Lane Crawford is a part of The Lane Crawford J ...

– since 1850 *

New World Development New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property developer in Hong Kong, property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The ...

Seibu Department Stores is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of S ...

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– since 1900 * Sogo – since 1980 *

– since 1907 *YATA – since 1990 as Seiyu. Sold in 2000 to Sun Hung Kai, rebranded as YATA in 2008 Defunct: *

Daimaru is a Japanese department store chain, principally located in the Kansai region of Japan. The chain is operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary of J. Front Retailing. At one time Daimaru was an independent company, , hea ...

– closed in 1998 *

Isetan ( unlisted on March 26, 2008, ) is a Japanese department store. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Isetan has branches throughout Japan and South East Asia, including in Jinan, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Shanghai, Singapore and Tianjin, and formerly in Ba ...

Matsuzakaya ( TYO: 8235, delisted) is a major Japanese department store chain operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary of J. Front Retailing. When the chain was an independent company, , it had its headquarters in Naka-ku, Nagoya. ...

* Seiyu – locations sold to Sun Hung Kai in 2000, now operates as YATA * Tokyu *

– bankrupt in 1997

India

1-India Family Mart 1-India Family Mart is a chain of value retail stores in India operated by Nysaa Retail Pvt. Ltd. The chain has the total of 100 stores across 81 cities of East and North of India. 1-India Family Mart has established the first store in Uttar Prad ...

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Easyday Future Group is an Indian conglomerate, founded by Kishore Biyani and based in Mumbai. The company is known in Indian retail and fashion sectors, operating supermarket chains Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar, lifestyle stores Brand Factory and Centra ...

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** Nilgiri's *

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* Namdhari's Fresh * Pantaloons *

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* Safal * Shoppers' Stop *

* Spencer's *

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* Westside

Indonesia

Currently trading: * Foreign department store brands: ** AEON (company), ÆON – Jakarta, Tangerang, Bogor **Galeries Lafayette – Jakarta ** Lotte Department Store, Lotte – Jakarta ** LuLu Group International, LuLu – Jakarta, Tangerang ** Marks & Spencer, M&S – Jakarta, Tangerang, Bandung, Surabaya, Bali, Medan **

– Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Solo ** Sogo – Jakarta, Tangerang, Surabaya, Bali, Medan, Samarinda ** Seibu Department Stores, Seibu – Jakarta * Local department store brands: **Citrus – Bogor, Jakarta, Semarang ** Lima Cahaya – Kalimantan ** Matahari (department store), Matahari – nationwide ** Ramayana – nationwide ** Robinson – nationwide ** Cahaya – nationwide ** Sarinah – Jakarta ** Surya – Papua ** Transmart – nationwide ** Yogya - Java Defunct *

* JCPenney *Printemps (cancelled opening in 1997) *

*Hanshin Department Store, Hanshin (cancelled opening in 1997) *

*Centro – local department store brand *Lotus – local department store brand

Israel

* Castro (clothing), Castro * Hamashbir Lazarchan * Honigman

Japan

Laos

* Big C

Macau

* New Yaohan Defunct: *

Malaysia

Currently trading: *

(3 stores) * G2000 *

(4 stores) *

– branches in 1 Utama, Gurney Plaza, Sunway Pyramid, and Suria KLCC. * Metrojaya (6 stores) * Pacific * Padini (28 stores) *

(37 stores) * Servay Hypermarket, Parkwell (only at Sarawak and Sabah Region) * Robinson & Co., Robinsons (2 branches in KL) * Sogo * SaSa (56 stores) * Tangs – A store in Starhill Center, KL but closed down in 2004; made their comeback debut at Pavilion KL before Pavilion branch closed down. Currently have branches at 1 Utama, Empire Subang, Genting Grand Hotel & First World Plaza (including a factory store outlet at Genting Premium Outlets) and The Shore, Melaka. Defunct: *

* Printemps *

– branches taken over by Parkson

Pakistan

* Metro Cash and Carry, Metro

Philippines

* Isetann Department Store, Isetann * Manels *

* SM Department Store, SM Store

Saudi Arabia

(Riyadh) *

Singapore

Currently trading: * Beijing Hualian Group – formerly known as Seiyu Group (Bugis Junction, Lot 1, The Clementi Mall, Jurong Point, Junction 8) *

(Shaw House and Centre, Tampines Mall, Parkway Parade, NEX) *

(Paragon, Causeway Point) * Mustafa (Little India) * Robinson & Co. **

– franchise (313@Somerset, Jewel Changi Airport, Marina Square, One Raffles Place, Paragon, Plaza Singapura, Parkway Parade Vivocity, Waterway Point, Wheelock Place) * Takashimaya (Ngee Ann City) * Tangs (Tang Plaza - Orchard Road, VivoCity) *OG (Chinatown, Bugis, Orchard Road) Defunct: *

– branches now closed in Singapore *

– branches now closed in Singapore * Sogo – branches now closed in Singapore * Tokyu – branches now closed in Singapore * Robinson & Co. **John Little (department store), John Little – branches now closed in Singapore **Robinson & Co., Robinsons – branches now closed in Singapore *

– branches now closed in Singapore

South Korea

* AK Plaza – five branches throughout the country, Main shop in Guro, SW Seoul and Bundang new city and Suwon & Pyeongtaek station shop, A AeKyung group company * Galleria Department Store – six or five branches throughout South Korea, because EAST and WEST are considered one store in Gangnam, Southern Seoul, Main department store in Daejeon & Cheninan, Chungnam area. A Hanwha group subsidiary. * Happy World (Haengbokhan Sesang) Department Store – Yangcheon-gu, Mokdong, Seoul * Hyundai Department Store – 15 branches throughout the country main brand in Gangnam Apgujeong dong & Gangnam coex shop, Pangyo new city & Kintex shop at NE Seoul exhibition center * Lotte Department Store – more than 30 branches throughout the country, including three Young Plazas and one Avenuel at jamsil 123-storey skyscraper mall complex, 8 overseas branches in Russia, Moscow, China, Vietnam, Hanoi, and Indonesia, Jakarta The top department stores with Lotte hotel complex. * M Department Store – Chuncheon, Gangwon-do (South Korea), Gangwon-do * NC Department Store - Part of E-Land Group, E-land group company, it has 19 branches throughout the nation including Seoul Garden 5 mall, Southern Seoul along with Hyudnai city mall. * Say Department Store – Seo-gu, Daejeon, Seo-gu, Daejeon * Shinsegae Department Store – 13 branches throughout the country including Myeongdong shop and starfield mall in Hanam SE Seoul & Goyang, Northern Seoul. * Taepyung Department Store – Dongjak-gu, Seoul Defunct: * Printemps – Seoul branch (1988~1997) * Sampoong Department Store collapse, Sampoong Department Store – collapsed due to building weakness in 1995 (1989~1995)

Sri Lanka

Currently trading: * Barefoot (retailer), Barefoot * Cargills (Ceylon) PLC, Cargills * ODEL

Taiwan

* Breeze Center * Dayeh Takashimaya Department Store, Dayeh Takashimaya * Hayashi Department Store * Ming Yao Department Store * Pacific Sogo, Far Eastern Sogo * Mitsukoshi, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi

Thailand

Currently trading: * Big C * Central Group, Central Retail Corporation – group includes: ** Central Group, Central **

– franchise stores ** Central Group#Robinson, Robinson ** ZEN (department store), ZEN (Ratchaprasong) * Daiso Grand * Diana Department Store, Diana (Hat Yai-Songkhla, Pattani) * The Erawan Group – group includes: ** Ploenchit Center (Sukhumvit) * Esprit Holdings, Esprit * Forever 21 * G2000 * Gap Inc., Gap * Gaysorn Group – group includes: ** Amarin Plaza (Ratchaprasong) – taken over from the Erawan Group ** Gaysorn Plaza (Ratchaprasong) * H&M * Klang Plaza Group – group includes: ** Klang Plaza (Nakhon Ratchasima) ** Klang Villa (Nakhon Ratchasima) * The Mall Group – group includes: ** The Emporium (Bangkok), Emporium (Sukhumvit) ** EmQuartier (Sukhumvit) ** The Mall Group, The Mall ** The Paragon (Khet Pathum Wan) * Pantip Plaza (Pratunam Market) * Siam Piwat – group includes: ** Siam Center (Khet Pathum Wan) ** Siam Center, Siam Discovery (Khet Pathum Wan) * Tesco Lotus Department Store * Tokyu (MBK Center, Khet Pathum Wan) * Topland Group (Phitsanulok) – group includes: ** Topland Arcade ** Topland Plaza * Uniqlo * Zara (retailer), Zara Defunct: *

* Thai Daimaru *

– closed department store section and changed supermarket name section to Maxvalu Tokai * Printemps * Seiyu * Sogo *

United Arab Emirates

Currently trading: * Bloomingdale's (The Dubai Mall) *

* Galeries Lafayette (The Dubai Mall) *

(Mall of the Emirates) * Lulu Hypermarket, LuLu Hypermarkets, Supermarkets & Department Stores *

Defunct: *

(2004-2016) * House of Fraser (2013-2021) * Robinsons Department Stores Online, Robinsons (2017-2021)

Vietnam

* AEON (company), AEON * Big C * Diamond Plaza (HCMC) * Lotte (conglomerate), Lotte *

* Takashimaya

Lebanon

* Aishti * Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, BHV * Farra Design Center

Europe

Albania

* Coin (department store), Coin – part of Gruppo Coin (Italy) * OVS (company), OVS – part of Gruppo Coin (Italy)

Austria

* Kastner & Öhler

Belgium

* Galeria Inno – part of the German GALERIA Holding GmbH (Galeria Kaufhof)

Bulgaria

* TZUM (Sofia), TZUM- dismantled in the 1990s. Several modern malls function in Sofia, Varna, Bourgas, etc.

Czech Republic

* Bílá labuť, Bílá Labuť * Kotva Department Store, Kotva * Desirred

Cyprus

– operated by Ermes Department Stores Ltd *

Denmark

Currently trading: * Illum (Copenhagen) * Magasin du Nord (Copenhagen, Lyngby, Field's, Rødovre, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg) * Salling (department store), Salling (Aarhus and Aalborg) Defunct: * Anva * Daell's *

Estonia

Currently trading: * Stockmann Defunct: * Anttila *

Finland

Currently trading: *

* Sokos * Stockmann Defunct: * Anttila * Pukeva

France

* Le BHV Marais * Galeries Lafayette * Le Bon Marché * Printemps Defunct: * La Samaritaine – to be transformed * Prisunic – acquired by Monoprix * Uniprix – acquired by Monoprix

Germany

Currently trading: * Alsterhaus – located in Hamburg, part of the KaDeWe Group * Apropos (store), Apropos – luxury department store / concept store, located in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg * Breuninger – ten luxury department stores, with head office in Stuttgart * Galeria Kaufhof – subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Company, HBC and the leading German department store group * Galeries Lafayette Berlin – Berlin branch of the French department store * HEMA (store), Hema – Dutch group operating 6 department stores in Germany * Kaufhaus des Westens, KaDeWe – located in Berlin, part of the KaDeWe Group * Ludwig Beck – luxury department store, founded in 1861, located in Munich * Müller (German trade company), Müller – not really a department store, more a large chemists that sells additional goods such as housewares, multi-media, toys * Oberpollinger – located in Munich, part of the KaDeWe Group *Peek & Cloppenburg * Woolworth GmbH, Woolworth – German branch of the Woolworth group, independent from the international Woolworth group, now German owned by the Tengelmann Group Defunct: * Hermann Tietz, Hertie – merged with Karstadt * Horten – merged with Kaufhof; all stores were renamed "Kaufhof" or "Galeria Kaufhof" or have been closed * Karstadt – merged with Kaufhof *

* Mitsukoshi – the German store has been closed * Schocken Department Stores, Schocken – merged with Horten and later Kaufhof * Wertheim (department store), Wertheim

Greece

Currently trading: * Attica Department Stores, Attica at Golden Hall * Fokas Department Stores (closed) * Hondos Center – mainly cosmetics * Notos Galleries

Hungary

* Corvin *

* Skala

Iceland

* Hagkaup

Ireland

Currently trading: * Arnotts (Ireland), Arnotts * Brown Thomas * BT2 – subsidiary of Brown Thomas * Dunnes Stores Defunct: * Clerys – closed in 2015 * Darrers * Roches Stores – acquired by Debenhams Foreign-Operated: *

* House of Fraser *

Italy

* Aumai - Chinese department store * Coin (department store), Coin – part of Gruppo Coin * Coin (department store), Coin Excelsior – part of Gruppo Coin * OVS (company), OVS – part of Gruppo Coin * La Rinascente, Rinascente – part of Central Group (Thailand) * The Oriental Mall - Chinese department store in Milan * UPIM – part of Gruppo Coin Defunct: * Magazzini Gamma, Gamma – acquired by Standa in 1973 * JCPenney – acquired by Rinascente in 1977 * Magazzini allo Statuto, Mas – department store in Rome, closed in 2017 * Standa – acquired by Gruppo Coin in 1998

Latvia

* ELKOR Plaza, Elkor * Maxima supermarket, Maxima * RIMI, Rimi * Stockmann

Lithuania

* Akropolis * CUP * Europa * Gedimino 9 * Ozas * Panorama * Maxima * Lidl

Luxembourg

Defunct: * Monopol – sold its assets

Netherlands

Currently trading: * Berden – department store in Heerlen * De Bijenkorf * HEMA (store), HEMA Defunct: * Maison de Bonneterie * Metz & Co – department store in Amsterdam * Schunck * Vroom & Dreesmann * Hudson's Bay

Norway

* Christiania Glasmagasin * Illum * Eger *

* Paleet * Steen & Strøm * OXHOLM

Poland

* CDT 'Smyk' Department Store, CDT 'Smyk' * Jabłkowski Brothers

Portugal

Currently trading: * El Corte Inglés (Lisbon and Vila Nova de Gaia) – leading Spanish department store * Marques Soares (Porto and branches) Defunct: * Grandella (Lisbon) * Grandes Armazens do Chiado (Lisbon and branches) * Marks & Spencer

Romania

Russia

Currently trading: * Gostiny Dvor – established 1785 * GUM (department store), GUM * Moscow * Passage (department store), The Passage – established 1848 * Petrovsky Passage – established 1906 * TsUM * TAKE AWAY * Stockmann - opened 1989

Serbia

* Coin (department store), Coin – part of Gruppo Coin (Italy) *

* Robne kuće Beograd

Slovakia

Slovenia

* E. Leclerc * Interspar * Mercator (retail), Mercator * Tuš

Spain

Currently trading: * El Corte Inglés – leading Spanish department store chain * Dunnes Stores (Málaga (province), Málaga) * Galerías Aitana (Calpe) * Galerías Primero (Zaragoza) * Bide Onera (Barakaldo) *

Defunct: * Almacenes Al Pelayo (Oviedo) * Almacenes Arias – closed in 1997 * Almacenes Botas (Oviedo and Gijón) * Almacenes Madrid-París * Almacenes Simeón – closed in 1987 * Galerías Preciados – taken over by El Corte Inglés in 1996 *

– closed in 1996 *

– taken over by Galerías Preciados in 1983 * SEPU – the Australian owners closed the remaining four branches in 2002

Sweden

Currently trading: * Åhléns (Stockholm) * Gekås (Ullared) * Nordiska Kompaniet (Stockholm and Gothenburg) Defunct: *

– closed in 2007 * PUB (Stockholm), PUB (Stockholm) – closed in 2014

Switzerland

* Coop (Switzerland), Coop City * Globus (company), Globus – Zürich, Bern, Luzern, Sursee, Walisellen, Locarno, Dietlikon, Marin, Basel, Chur, St. Gallen, Lausanne and Genève * Jelmoli – one flagship store located in Zürich * Loeb (Swiss department store) (Bern and branches) – Biel, Thun and Schönbühl * Manor (Switzerland), Manor (Basel and branches) – used to operate under different brands like Nordmann, Vilan, Rheinbrücke, Placette and Innovazione * Migros – the largest supermarket chain, but acting as a department store in different shopping centers Defunct: * ABM (Au Bon Marché) – discount chain; was a part of the Globus group; closed 2001; some shops were converted to C&A stores * EPA (Einheitspreis AG) – discount chain; closed 2005; most stores converted to Coop City or closed down

United Kingdom

;Major department stores currently trading *John Lewis & Partners, John Lewis *

*House of Fraser *Harrods *Selfridges *Liberty (department store), Liberty *

*Fortnum & Mason *Fenwick (department store), Fenwick

Turkey

* Beymen – luxury shopping * Boyner * Vakko – luxury shopping * FashFed * GANİ YALÇIN – luxury shopping * Mudo * Özdilek *

– luxury shopping *

* Galeries Lafayette – luxury shopping * Desibona – marketplace platform

Oceania

Australia

Department stores: * David Jones Limited *Harrolds * Myer Discount department stores: * Big W * Best and Less *Dimmeys *H and M *Harris Scarfe * Kmart Australia * Rivers * Target Australia *TK Maxx *Unique Defunct: * Allens (southern New South Wales and the ACT) - acquired by Harris Scarfe in 2004, re-branded in October 2008 - slogan in the 1990s was 'Hi-value' * Aherns (Western Australia) - acquired by David Jones Limited, David Jones in 1999, last store in Rockingham Centre closed in June 2004 * Anthony Hordern & Sons (Sydney) * Bairds (Perth) * Ball & Welch (Melbourne) * Barsby's (Kempsey, New South Wales, Kempsey) * Bennett's (Geraldton) * Boans (Perth) * Bolands Centre, Bolands (Cairns) *Bright and Hitchcocks, Bright & Hitchcocks * Buckley & Nunn (Melbourne) * Chain Reaction (Fremantle & Rockingham, Western Australia, Rockingham) *Charles Birks & Co. *Charles Davis Limited * Charles Moore and Co., Charles Moore and Co. (Perth) * Cox Bros Economic (Perth) *Cribb & Foote (Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich) * Cronshaws (Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury) *

(Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Melbourne Central and Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, Pacific Fair) *

(St. Collins Lane, St Collins Lane) * Farmer & Co, Farmers * Figgins Diorama *FitzGerald's Department Stores, Fitzgerald's Department Stores (Tasmania) * Fosseys * Foy & Gibson (Melbourne) * Georges store, Georges (Melbourne) * Gowings (Sydney) * Grace Bros – now Myer *H. A. and W. Goode, H. A. & W. Goode * Hick Atkinson (Melbourne) * Impulse (Perth) *James Marshall & Co. (Adelaide) *JB Young's * John Martin's (Adelaide) * Mantons (Melbourne) *Marcus Clark & Co * Mark Foy's (Sydney) * McDonnell & East Ltd Building, McDonnell & East Ltd * McWhirters (Brisbane) * The Mutual Store (Melbourne) * John Richardson (New South Wales politician), Richardson's (Armidale) * Sydney Snow, Snows (Sydney) * Stirlings (Albany, Western Australia, Albany, Bunbury and Geraldton) - all stores sold to Harris Scarfe and Rebranded to the Harris Scarfe format *Trade Secret (Australian company), Trade Secret - rebranded to TK Maxx * Treadways * Venture (department store), Venture * Waltons (department store), Waltons * Western Stores (New South Wales)

New Zealand

Department Stores: * Ballantynes (Christchurch) * David Jones Limited * Farmers Trading Company, Farmers - nationally trading * H & J Smith * Smith & Caughey's Discount department stores: * Kmart Australia * The Warehouse Group, The Warehouse Defunct: * Arthur Barnett Ltd, Arthur Barnett * D.I.C. (department store), D.I.C. * DEKA (New Zealand), DEKA * Haywrights * Kirkcaldie & Stains *Milne & Choyce (Auckland)

References

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