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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 * Game * Woolworths * 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

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 * Uchumi Supermarkets *

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 ...

* Game

Nigeria

* Game * Shoprite *

South Africa

* Ackermans * Cash & Carry *

Checkers Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...

* 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 ...

* Pick n Pay Stores * Shoprite *

* Truworths * Woolworths * Game

Tanzania

* Game * Shoprite * Uchumi * Woolworths

Tunisia

* Géant

Zimbabwe

* Edgars

North America

Canada

Currently trading: * Canadian Tire – auto repair garage, hardware, home renovations, sports, garden centre, electronics, auto parts, furniture, food, housewares, towels; franchised stores with independent owners * Costco – 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 – high-end department store * Holt Renfrew Ogilvy – 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 di ...

(HBC). Formerly called The Bay * Nordstrom – 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 - 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 – high-end department store * Simons – 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 disc ...

– 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 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 20-60 ...

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. ...

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 off-price department store corporation, headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was formed as a subsidiary of Zayre Corp. in 1987, and became the legal successor t ...

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 – 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 – 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 * Horizon – 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 ...

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, 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 ...

- Antigonish-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 – 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 – 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) – 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 – 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 C ...

– opened 2005 and expanded to 6 locations; closed in 2009 * Sayvette – 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 Eaton's * 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 f ...

– part of US giant Target Corporation (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 – discount department store, usually in the suburbs, acquired by Wal-Mart in 1994 * Woolworth's – closed Canadian stores in 1994, though some became Woolco (such as the Whitehorse outlet); others that did not close outright were reconfigured and rebranded as The Bargain! Shop * XS Cargo – discount retailer chain dealing in clearance items; defunct 2014 * Yaohan – 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 – 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 populat ...

– 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 * Saks Fifth Avenue – 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 *

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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 i ...

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

* Macy's *

* T.J. Maxx *

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United States

South America

Argentina

Defunct: * Casa Tía * Harrods

Bolivia

* Big Sur * Ketal

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 Renner *

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 * Mesbla * Muricy *

Chile

Currently trading: * Almacenes París – belongs to the Cencosud Group * Falabella – largest and oldest department store in Chile * La Polar * 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 – supermarket chain, belongs to the D&S Company, a

joint venture

Colombia

Currently trading: * Casa Tía * Falabella – Chilean company; opened first store in Colombia in 2006 *

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Defunct: *

* La Polar * Ripley

Ecuador

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

Paraguay

* Nueva Americana

Peru

Currently trading: * Falabella * 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 * Metro - hypermarket property of Chilean Cencosud *

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 – supermarket property of Supermercados Peruanos * Wong – supermarket property of Chilean Cencosud

Uruguay

Defunct: * London París

Venezuela

Currently trading: * Graffiti *

Macuto Macuto is a seaside city in Vargas state, Venezuela. The city has a long history of attracting Venezuelan political leaders and artists, and popular tourist site today. History Macuto was founded in August 1740 on the site of an indigenous vill ...

* 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

Cambodia

Aeon The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ...

China

* China Resources Vanguard * Beijing Hualian * 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 – 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 * Yaohan

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 *

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

AEON Group is a group of retail and financial services companies based in Chiba, Japan, which is centered on ÆON Co., Ltd. It has sister companies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The group also trades ...

* Lane Crawford – since 1850 * Marks & Spencer *

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

* Sincere Department Store – since 1900 * Sogo – since 1980 * Wing On – since 1907 *YATA – since 1990 as Seiyu. Sold in 2000 to Sun Hung Kai, rebranded as YATA in 2008 Defunct: * Daimaru – 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 * Yaohan – bankrupt in 1997

India

* 1-India Family Mart *

Big Bazaar Big Bazaar was an Indian retail chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. The retail chain was founded by Kishore Biyani under his parent organisation Future Group, which is known for having a significant prominen ...

** Central **

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 ...

** Foodworld ** HyperCity ** Nilgiri's *

Cromā Cromā is an Indian retail chain of consumer electronics and durables run by Infiniti Retail, a subsidiary of the Tata Group. Its product range covers more than 500 products across the electronics and consumer durable categories. Location Pr ...

* D-Mart *

Debenhams Debenhams plc was a British department store chain operating in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1778 as a single store in London and grew to 178 locations across those countries, also owning the Danish ...

* Lifestyle Stores * Marks & Spencer *

Maveli Stores Maveli Stores is a venture of the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation ( Supplyco). Under the Government programme of market intervention, pulses and spices are purchased and sold to the consumers at subsidised prices fixed by the Government. ...

* Metro * More * Namdhari's Fresh * Pantaloons * Reliance Retail **

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** Reliance Trends * Safal * Shoppers' Stop *

* Spencer's * Triveni Supermarkets * Westside

Indonesia

Currently trading: * Foreign department store brands: ** ÆON – Jakarta, Tangerang, Bogor **

Galeries Lafayette 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 in a number of other locations in France and oth ...

– Jakarta ** Lotte – Jakarta **

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

* Harvey Nichols * JCPenney *

Printemps Printemps (; meaning " springtime" in French) is a French department store chain (french: grand magasin, links=no, literally "big store"). The Printemps stores focus on beauty, lifestyle, fashion, accessories, and men's wear. The Printemps ...

(cancelled opening in 1997) * Yaohan * Hanshin (cancelled opening in 1997) *

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

Israel

* Castro * Hamashbir Lazarchan * Honigman

Japan

Laos

Big C Big C ( th, บิ๊กซี ซูเปอร์เซ็นเตอร์), is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Big C is as of 2016 Thailand's second-largest hypermarket operator after Lotus' ...

Macau

New Yaohan New Yaohan (, Portuguese: Novo Yaohan) is a department store in Macau, China. It was established on September 18, 1997, from the Macau branch of Yaohan, which was the first department store on the island. New Yaohan is a fully owned subsidiary com ...

Defunct: * Yaohan

Malaysia

Currently trading: *

(3 stores) *

G2000 G2000 (Generation 2000; ) Group was founded by Michael Tien in 1980 in Hong Kong. The label G2000, first introduced in 1985, was positioned as a specialty clothing chain distributing fashionable men's and women's career wear. Today, the G200 ...

(4 stores) * Marks & Spencer – branches in

1 Utama 1 Utama is a shopping mall in Bandar Utama, Selangor, Malaysia, with an area of and containing 713 stores. It is the one of the largest shopping malls in Malaysia and the seventh-largest shopping mall in the world before IOI City Mall in Putraj ...

, Gurney Plaza, Sunway Pyramid, and

Suria KLCC Suria KLCC is a 6-story shopping mall located at the foot of the Petronas Twin Towers. Suria KLCC is a premier shopping destination with over 300 flagship stores. The shopping mall is situated in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysi ...

. * Metrojaya (6 stores) *

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

* Padini (28 stores) *

(37 stores) * Parkwell (only at Sarawak and Sabah Region) * Robinsons (2 branches in KL) * Sogo * SaSa (56 stores) *

Tangs TANGS is a department store located on Orchard Road in Singapore, owned by C.K. Tang Limited. The store is regarded as a principal shopping destination in the city, comparable to Bloomingdale's in New York City and Selfridges in London. The co ...

– 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: *

* Yaohan – branches taken over by Parkson

Pakistan

* Metro

Philippines

* Isetann * Manels * Marks & Spencer * SM Store

Saudi Arabia

* Harvey Nichols ( Riyadh) * Marks & Spencer * Saks Fifth Avenue

Singapore

Currently trading: * Beijing Hualian Group – formerly known as

Seiyu Group , or , is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers and department stores, headquartered in Akabane (赤羽), Kita, Tokyo.

(Bugis Junction, Lot 1, The Clementi Mall, Jurong Point, Junction 8) *

(Shaw House and Centre, Tampines Mall, Parkway Parade, NEX) * Metro (Paragon, Causeway Point) *

Mustafa Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى , Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world. Given name Mou ...

(Little India) * Robinson & Co. ** Marks & Spencer – franchise (313@Somerset, Jewel Changi Airport, Marina Square, One Raffles Place, Paragon, Plaza Singapura, Parkway Parade Vivocity, Waterway Point, Wheelock Place) *

Takashimaya is a Japanese multinational corporation operating a department store chain carrying a wide array of products, ranging from wedding dresses and other apparel to electronics and flatware. It has more than 12 branches strategically located in 2 ...

(Ngee Ann City) *

(Tang Plaza - Orchard Road, VivoCity) *OG (Chinatown, Bugis, Orchard Road) Defunct: * Daimaru – branches now closed in Singapore * Lane Crawford – branches now closed in Singapore * Sogo – branches now closed in Singapore * Tokyu – branches now closed in Singapore * Robinson & Co. ** John Little – branches now closed in Singapore ** Robinsons – branches now closed in Singapore * Yaohan – 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 Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of ...

Hyundai Department Store Hyundai Department Store ( Korean: 현대백화점 주식회사, Hanja: 現代百貨店株式會社), together with Lotte Department Store and Shinsegae, is one of the three major department store chains in South Korea. Its parent company is th ...

– 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 * NC Department Store - Part of

E-land group E·Land Group (hangul:이랜드그룹) is a South Korean conglomerate headquartered in Changjeon-dong Mapo-gu Seoul, South Korea. E-Land Group takes part in retail malls, restaurants, theme parks, hotels and construction businesses as well as its ...

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 Daejeon () is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of 1.5 million as of 2019. Located in the central-west region of South Korea alongside forested hills and the Geum River, the city is known both for its technology an ...

Shinsegae Shinsegae (, ) is a South Korean department store franchise, along with several other businesses, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm is an affiliate of Shinsegae Group, South Korea's leading retail chaebol, and one of the big three de ...

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 Dongjak District (Dongjak-gu) is one of the 25 '' gu'' that make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Its name was derived from the Dongjaegi Naruteo Ferry, on the Han River which borders the district to the north. It was the 17th ''gu'' create ...

, Seoul Defunct: *

– Seoul branch (1988~1997) * Sampoong Department Store – collapsed due to building weakness in 1995 (1989~1995)

Sri Lanka

Currently trading: *

Barefoot Barefoot is the state of not wearing any footwear. There are health benefits and some risks associated with going barefoot. Shoes, while they offer protection, can limit the flexibility, strength, and mobility of the foot and can lead to h ...

* Cargills *

ODEL Odel (stylised as O▷ΞL and ODEL) is a public retail company, the first in Sri Lanka. Starting out as a single company focusing on the retail garment trade, Odel developed over the years to become the first department store in the country. H ...

Taiwan

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

Thailand

Currently trading: *

* Central Retail Corporation – group includes: ** Central ** Marks & Spencer – franchise stores **

Robinson Robinson may refer to: People and names * Robinson (name) Fictional characters * Robinson Crusoe, the main character, and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 Geography * Robinson projection, a map projection used since the 1960 ...

ZEN Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...

(

Ratchaprasong Ratchaprasong ( th, ราชประสงค์, ; also spelled ''Rajprasong'') is the name of an intersection, and a shopping district named after it, in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, adjacent to the Siam area, at the BTS Skytrain's Chit L ...

) *

Daiso is a large franchise of 100-yen shops founded in Japan. The headquarters are in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Daiso has a range of over 100,000 products, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China, South Ko ...

Grand * Diana ( Hat Yai- Songkhla, Pattani) * The Erawan Group – group includes: ** Ploenchit Center (Sukhumvit) * Esprit * Forever 21 *

* Gap * Gaysorn Group – group includes: **

Amarin Plaza Amarin Plaza ( th, อัมรินทร์พลาซ่า) is a shopping mall and office building complex located in the Ratchaprasong shopping district in the city centre of Bangkok. It comprises a five-storey shopping mall podium with ov ...

(

) – taken over from the Erawan Group ** Gaysorn Plaza (

) * H&M *

Klang Plaza Klang Plaza ( th, คลังพลาซ่า) is a local shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. It has three outlets and is building a fourth near the railway station. It was founded by local businessman, Mr Paisarn Manasilp. The busin ...

Group – group includes: **

( Nakhon Ratchasima) ** Klang Villa ( Nakhon Ratchasima) * The Mall Group – group includes: ** Emporium (Sukhumvit) ** EmQuartier (Sukhumvit) ** The Mall ** The Paragon ( Khet Pathum Wan) * Pantip Plaza (

Pratunam Market Pratunam Market () is one of Bangkok's major markets, and is Thailand's largest clothing market. The name ''Pratunam'' means 'water gate'. Overview The market includes retail stores and outdoor stalls, the latter aimed at tourists. It is at th ...

) * Siam Piwat – group includes: ** Siam Center ( Khet Pathum Wan) ** Siam Discovery ( Khet Pathum Wan) * Tesco Lotus Department Store * Tokyu (

MBK Center MBK Center, also known as Mahboonkrong ( th, มาบุญครอง; , ), is a large shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. At eight storeys, the center contains around 2,000 shops, restaurants and service outlets. In 2009, MBK Center manage ...

, Khet Pathum Wan) * Topland Group (

Phitsanulok Phitsanulok ( th, พิษณุโลก, ) is an important, historic city in lower northern Thailand and is the capital of Phitsanulok Province. Phitsanulok is home to Naresuan University and Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, as well a ...

) – group includes: ** Topland Arcade ** Topland Plaza * Uniqlo * Zara Defunct: *

Thai Daimaru Thai Daimaru was a department store in Bangkok, operated by the Japanese department store chain Daimaru. It first opened on Ratchaprasong Intersection (at the current location of CentralWorld) in 1964, and famously introduced air conditioning an ...

– closed department store section and changed supermarket name section to

Maxvalu Tokai () or MaxValu is a Japanese retail store chain. Until 2000 it was named Yaohan, but changed its name after its bankruptcy and takeover by the ÆON Group. MaxValu in other countries Thailand In 2008, the owners ÆON Group rebranded all JUSCO stor ...

* Seiyu * Sogo * Yaohan

United Arab Emirates

Currently trading: * Bloomingdale's (

The Dubai Mall The Dubai Mall ( ar, دبي مول "Dubai Mall") is a shopping mall in Dubai. It is the second largest mall in the world after the Iran Mall by total land area, and the 26th-largest shopping mall in the world by gross leasable area, tying with ...

) *

(

) * Harvey Nichols ( Mall of the Emirates) * LuLu Hypermarkets, Supermarkets & Department Stores * Marks & Spencer Defunct: * Saks Fifth Avenue (2004-2016) * House of Fraser (2013-2021) * Robinsons (2017-2021)

Vietnam

AEON The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ...

* Diamond Plaza (HCMC) * Lotte *

Lebanon

* Aishti * BHV *

Farra Design Center FARRA Design Center is a privately held home products retail store that sells imported furniture and home accessories. The company originated in Beirut, Lebanon, and started as a raw material supplier. The first FARRA store opened in Downtown Beir ...

Europe

Albania

* Coin – part of Gruppo Coin (

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

) * OVS – part of Gruppo Coin (

)

Austria

* Kastner & Öhler

Belgium

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

Bulgaria

TZUM Tzum ( fry, Tsjom) is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,164 in January 2014. Tzum is known for its 72 metre tall church tower. History The village was first mentione ...

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

Czech Republic

* Bílá Labuť * Kotva * Desirred

Cyprus

– operated by Ermes Department Stores Ltd * Marks & Spencer

Denmark

Currently trading: * Illum (

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

) * Magasin du Nord (Copenhagen,

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...

, Field's,

Rødovre Rødovre is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. The town's population 1 January 2019 was 39,907, and in addition 145 persons had no fixed address, which made up a total of 40,052 in the munic ...

, Aarhus,

Odense Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (behind Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2022, the city proper had a population of 180,863 while Odense Municipality had a population of 20 ...

and Aalborg) *

Salling Salling is a peninsula located in the north-west of the larger Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The largest city in Salling is Skive, and smaller towns and villages includes Jebjerg, Roslev and Glyngøre. The Sallingsund Bridge connects the penins ...

(Aarhus and Aalborg) Defunct: * Anva * Daell's *

Estonia

Currently trading: * Stockmann Defunct: * Anttila * Marks & Spencer

Finland

Currently trading: * Marks & Spencer * Sokos * Stockmann Defunct: * Anttila * Pukeva

France

* Le BHV Marais *

Le Bon Marché Le Bon Marché (lit. "the good market", or "the good deal" in French; ) is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. It was ...

Defunct: *

La Samaritaine La Samaritaine (French pronunciation: a samaʁitɛn is a large department store in Paris, France, located in the first arrondissement. The nearest métro station is Pont-Neuf, directly in front at the quai du Louvre and the rue de la Monnaie ...

– to be transformed * Prisunic – acquired by Monoprix *

Uniprix Uniprix is a pharmacy chain founded in 1977 and based in Saint-Leonard, Montreal, Quebec. It operates under four brands: Uniprix, Unipharm, Clinique Santé and Uniclinique (inside clinics). Combining its four brands, Uniprix is the second-lar ...

– acquired by Monoprix

Germany

Currently trading: * Alsterhaus – located in Hamburg, part of the KaDeWe Group * 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 HBC and the leading German department store group *

Berlin – Berlin branch of the French department store * Hema – Dutch group operating 6 department stores in Germany * KaDeWe – located in Berlin, part of the KaDeWe Group * Ludwig Beck – luxury department store, founded in 1861, located in Munich * 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 Peek & Cloppenburg is an international chain of department stores from Germany. The chain is operated by two separate and independent companies, Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf (known as P&C West) and Peek & Cloppenburg KG Hamburg (know ...

* Woolworth – German branch of the Woolworth group, independent from the international Woolworth group, now German owned by the

Tengelmann Group Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG, doing business as the Tengelmann Group, is a holding company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Structure The corporation has the following subsidiaries: * KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH, with over 3 ...

Defunct: * Hertie – merged with Karstadt * Horten – merged with Kaufhof; all stores were renamed "Kaufhof" or "Galeria Kaufhof" or have been closed * Karstadt – merged with Kaufhof * Marks & Spencer *

Mitsukoshi is an international department store chain with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. It is a subsidiary of Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, which also owns the Isetan department store chain. History It was founded in 1673 with the (shop name) , sell ...

– the German store has been closed * Schocken – merged with Horten and later Kaufhof * Wertheim

Greece

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

Hungary

* Corvin * Marks & Spencer * Skala

Iceland

* Hagkaup

Ireland

Currently trading: * Arnotts *

Brown Thomas Brown Thomas & Company Limited is a chain of five Irish department stores, located in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Dundrum Town Centre. Part of the Selfridges Group, Brown Thomas is an upmarket chain, akin to Britain's Selfridges store ...

* BT2 – subsidiary of Brown Thomas * Dunnes Stores Defunct: * Clerys – closed in 2015 *

Darrers Darrers Stores was a department store and supermarket brand with outlets in Waterford, Dungarvan, Tramore and Carlow, in Ireland. The chain operated as both a grocers and drapers, and is believed to be one of the first Irish stores to introduce a ...

Roches Stores Debenhams Ireland was a national chain of department stores in Ireland, that was owned ultimately by Debenhams plc. It was largely based on the former Roches Store chain, though after that business divested its grocery units. History Roches ...

– acquired by Debenhams Foreign-Operated: * Harvey Nichols * House of Fraser * Marks & Spencer

Italy

* Aumai - Chinese department store * Coin – part of Gruppo Coin * Coin Excelsior – part of Gruppo Coin * OVS – part of Gruppo Coin * Rinascente – part of Central Group ( Thailand) * The Oriental Mall - Chinese department store in Milan *

UPIM UPIM ("Unico Prezzo Italiano Milano") is an Italian chain of midmarket department stores specialising in clothes for men, women and children, items for the home, and cosmetics and perfumes. It currently operates 135 directly owned stores and more t ...

– part of Gruppo Coin Defunct: * Gamma – acquired by Standa in 1973 * JCPenney – acquired by Rinascente in 1977 * Mas – department store in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

, closed in 2017 *

Standa Standa was an Italian chain of department stores. History It was founded in 1931 as ''Magazzini Standard'' (Società Anonima Magazzini Standard) by a former executive of UPIM and subsequently renamed as ''Standa'' (acronym for Società Tutti Art ...

– acquired by Gruppo Coin in 1998

Latvia

* Elkor * Maxima * 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 De Bijenkorf (; literally, "the beehive") is a chain of high-end department stores in the Netherlands, with its flagship store on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The chain is owned by Selfridges Group, which also owns Britain's Selfridges and Ireland's ...

* HEMA Defunct: * Maison de Bonneterie * Metz & Co – department store in Amsterdam * Schunck * Vroom & Dreesmann * Hudson's Bay

Norway

* Christiania Glasmagasin * Illum * Eger * Marks & Spencer * Paleet * Steen & Strøm * OXHOLM

Poland

* CDT 'Smyk' * Jabłkowski Brothers

Portugal

Currently trading: *

El Corte Inglés El Corte Inglés S.A. (), headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. Its primary source of sales is from department stores, followed by internet sales. It is a family business, with most s ...

( Lisbon and

Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...

) – leading Spanish department store * Marques Soares ( Porto and branches) Defunct: * Grandella ( Lisbon) * Grandes Armazens do Chiado ( Lisbon and branches) * Marks & Spencer

Romania

* Marks & Spencer

Russia

Currently trading: * Gostiny Dvor – established 1785 * GUM * Moscow * The Passage – established 1848 * Petrovsky Passage – established 1906 * TsUM *

TAKE AWAY A take-out or takeout (U.S., Canada, and the Philippines); carry-out or to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. and Canada); takeaway (England, Wales, Australia, Lebanon, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and occasionally in Nort ...

* Stockmann - opened 1989

Serbia

* Coin – part of Gruppo Coin (

) * Marks & Spencer * Robne kuće Beograd

Slovakia

* Marks & Spencer

Slovenia

* E. Leclerc * Interspar *

Mercator __NOTOC__ Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to: People * Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer * Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer * Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer ** Mercator 1569 ...

* Tuš

Spain

Currently trading: *

– leading Spanish department store chain * Dunnes Stores ( Málaga) * Galerías Aitana ( Calpe) * Galerías Primero ( Zaragoza) * Bide Onera (

Barakaldo Barakaldo ( es, Baracaldo; eu, Barakaldo ) is a municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country. Located on the Left Bank of the Estuary of Bilbao, the city is part of Greater Bilbao, has a population at 100,881. Barakaldo h ...

) * Marks & Spencer 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 * Marks & Spencer – 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 Nordiska Kompaniet (colloquially NK, and literally ''The Nordic Company'') is the name of two department stores located in Stockholm and Gothenburg, in Sweden. The store in Stockholm receives some twelve million visitors annually, with the figur ...

( Stockholm and Gothenburg) Defunct: *

– closed in 2007 *

PUB A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

( Stockholm) – closed in 2014

Switzerland

* Coop City * Globus –

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

, Bern, Luzern, Sursee, Walisellen, Locarno, Dietlikon, Marin, Basel, Chur, St. Gallen, Lausanne and Genève *

Jelmoli Jelmoli is a department store in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the oldest and best known in the world. It introduced features such as no-haggle pricing and a mail order catalog. It is located along the famous Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich. Hist ...

– one flagship store located in

* Loeb (Swiss department store) ( Bern and branches) – Biel, Thun and Schönbühl * Manor (

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

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 John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

* Marks & Spencer * House of Fraser * Harrods *

Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridg ...

* Liberty * Harvey Nichols *

Fortnum & Mason Fortnum & Mason (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an upmarket department store in Piccadilly, London, with additional stores at The Royal Exchange, St Pancras railway station, Heathrow Airport in London and K11 Musea In Hong ...

* Fenwick

Turkey

* Beymen – luxury shopping * Boyner * Vakko – luxury shopping * FashFed * GANİ YALÇIN – luxury shopping * Mudo * Özdilek * Harvey Nichols – luxury shopping * Marks & Spencer *

– luxury shopping * Desibona – marketplace platform

Oceania

Australia

Department stores: *

David Jones Limited David Jones Pty Limited, trading as David Jones (colloquially DJs), is an Australian High-End department store, owned since 2014 by South African retail group Woolworths Holdings Limited. David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh ...

* Harrolds *

Myer Myer (stylised MYER, sometimes known as Myers) is an Australian mid-range to upscale department store chain. It trades in all Australian states and one of Australia's two self-governing territories. Myer retails a broad range of products ...

Discount department stores: * Big W * Best and Less *

Dimmeys Dimmeys is an Australia, Australian discount department store chain. Founded as a Victorian gold rush, gold-rush era drapery "Dimelow & Gaylard's", in rural Maryborough, Victoria, Maryborough, the business became colloquially known as 'Dimmeys'. ...

*H and M *

Harris Scarfe Harris Scarfe is an Australian retailer that sells bed linen, kitchenware, homewares, electrical appliances and apparel. It has a e-commerce retail presence in Australia and is considered a multi-channel lifestyle and homewares store. Founded in ...

Kmart Australia Kmart Australia Limited ( /ˈkeɪmɑːrt/ ''KAY-mart'', doing business as Kmart, Kmart Australia, Kmart New Zealand and Kmart Australia And New Zealand and stylised as ''Kmart'') is an Australian chain of department stores owned by the Kmart G ...

* Rivers *

Target Australia Target Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Lindsay's and Lindsay's Target, formerly stylised as Target. and doing business as Target and Target Australia) is a department store chain owned by Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers. Target stocks c ...

* TK Maxx *Unique Defunct: * Allens (southern

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

and the ACT) - acquired by

in 2004, re-branded in October 2008 - slogan in the 1990s was 'Hi-value' * Aherns (Western Australia) - acquired by David Jones in 1999, last store in

Rockingham Centre Rockingham Centre is a regional shopping centre located south-southwest of Perth, Western Australia, in the suburb of Rockingham. First opened in 1971 and formerly known as Rockingham City Shopping Centre, Rockingham Park Shopping Centre and ...

closed in June 2004 *

Anthony Hordern & Sons Anthony Hordern & Sons was a major department store in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. With 52 acres (21 hectares) of retail space, Anthony Hordern's was once the largest department store in the world. The historic Anthony Hordern building, w ...

(Sydney) * Bairds ( Perth) * Ball & Welch (

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

) * Barsby's ( Kempsey) * Bennett's (

Geraldton Geraldton ( Wajarri: ''Jambinu'', Wilunyu: ''Jambinbirri'') is a coastal city in the Mid West region of the Australian state of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth. At June 2018, Geraldton had an urban population of 37,648. ...

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Boans Boans was a department store chain that operated in Perth, Western Australia between from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. It was located between Wellington Street and Murray Street and had the Padbury Buildings between it an ...

(Perth) * Bolands ( Cairns) * Bright & Hitchcocks *

Buckley & Nunn Buckley & Nunn (also known as Buckley's) was a department store in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It first opened its doors in 1851 as a drapery store and, in its heyday, competed creditably as a department store with Myer (1900). It occupied ...

(Melbourne) * Chain Reaction ( Fremantle & Rockingham) *

Charles Birks & Co Charles Birks & Co Ltd. was a South Australian department store founded by Charles Napier Birks in Rundle Street, Adelaide. His son Napier Birks took over the business in 1908. The business was acquired by David Jones Limited in 1954. History Ch ...

. * Charles Davis Limited * Charles Moore and Co. (Perth) * Cox Bros Economic (Perth) *

Cribb & Foote Cribb & Foote was a department store in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, that existed from 1849 until 1985. It was renamed Reid's department store in 1977. Early history Ipswich businessman, Benjamin Cribb Benjamin Cribb (7 November 1807 ...

( Ipswich) * Cronshaws ( Bunbury) * Daimaru ( Melbourne Central and Pacific Fair) *

( St Collins Lane) * Farmers * Figgins Diorama * Fitzgerald's Department Stores (Tasmania) * Fosseys * Foy & Gibson (Melbourne) * Georges (Melbourne) * Gowings (Sydney) * Grace Bros – now Myer * 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 * McWhirters (Brisbane) * The Mutual Store (Melbourne) * Richardson's (

Armidale Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Armidale had a population of 24,504 as of June 2018. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. It is the administrative centre for the Northern Tablelands region. I ...

) * Snows (Sydney) * Stirlings ( Albany, Bunbury and Geraldton) - all stores sold to Harris Scarfe and Rebranded to the Harris Scarfe format *

Trade Secret Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily ...

- rebranded to TK Maxx * Treadways *

Venture Venture may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *The Ventures, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 *"A Venture", 1971 song by the band Yes *''Venture'', a 2010 EP by AJR Games * ''Venture'' (video game), a 1981 arcade gam ...

* Waltons * Western Stores (New South Wales)

New Zealand

Department Stores: *

Ballantynes J Ballantyne and Company Ltd, trading as Ballantynes is a Christchurch, New Zealand-based department store operator. Established in 1854, it is New Zealand's oldest department store. Ballantynes is also a member of the Intercontinental Group of ...

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Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon Rive ...

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* Farmers - nationally trading * H & J Smith *

Smith & Caughey's Smith & Caughey Ltd, trading as Smith & Caughey's, is a chain of two mid-sized, upscale department stores in Auckland, New Zealand. One of the oldest surviving retail businesses in New Zealand, it was established in 1880 by Ulster-born Mari ...

Discount department stores: *

The Warehouse The Warehouse Group (TWG) was founded by Stephen Tindall in 1982, and is the largest retail group operating in New Zealand. It is a corporate group that consists of The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Torpedo7, Noel Leeming, 1-day and TheMar ...

Defunct: * Arthur Barnett * D.I.C. * DEKA * Haywrights * Kirkcaldie & Stains * Milne & Choyce (Auckland)

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