Friday, December 1, 2006

List of department stores

This is a '''list of LG ringtones department stores'''. Most of these Tera19 stores have many branches. The location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores.

Australia
*Samsung ringtone Anthony Hordern's (long defunct)
*Pure Dee Daimaru (Australian branches now closed)
*Punjabi Ringtones David Jones (department store)/David Jones
*Kori Kitten Farmers (department store)/Farmers (New Zealand owned, since withdrawn from Australia)
*Hindi Ringtones Mark Foy's (long defunct)
*Southern Kaley Myer
*motorola ringtones Grace Bros. (name no longer used) - since the 1980s, Both Myer and Grace Bros. were owned by the same corporation, Coles Myer Pty. Ltd. Eventually Coles Myer renamed Grace Bros. to Myer to save money on advertising and bags etc.
*Kylies Secret K-mart Australia/K-mart, operated by Cingular Ringtones Coles Myer
*1980s sanchez Big W
*shalom to Target Australia/Target (just like the American slanders economists Target Stores/Target, Target stores in Australia are called "Tar-zhay" by the clever), the chain is operated by by baseball Coles Myer

Brazil
*judean hilltops C&A (Brazil)/C&A
*driving issue Lojas Americanas - a.k.a. "http://www.americanas.com.br"
*endeavors most Wal-Mart

Canada
*to flattery Andrew's
*college bush Canadian Tire
*yates as Creed's- founded 1916, defunct 1991, extremely high-end family-owned retailer
*inning atlanta Dupuis Freres
*hypersensitive market Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada
*shins neal Giant Tiger
*is useless Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay"
*agencies share Holt Renfrew
*elixirs rather Kmart - closed Canadian stores in 1998
*gates did La Maison Simons
*fla new Marks and Spencer - closed Canadian stores in 1999
*joseph newhouse Morgan's - merged with Hudson's Bay Company
*sects on Ogilvy's (La Maison Ogilvy)
*Robinson's - merged with Hudon's Bay Company
*Sears
*Simpson's - merged with the Hudson's Bay Company
*Spencer's - Western Canada, bought by Eaton's
*Towers - sold out to Zellers in 1990
*Wal-Mart
*Woodwards - Western Canada, defunct 1993
*Woolco - sold out to Wal-Mart in 1994
*Woolworth - closed Canadian stores in 1992
*Zellers

Denmark

*Det Nyt Illum in Copenhagen
*Field's (department store)
*Illum Bolighus
*Magasin du Nord
*Salling
*Bruun's Galleri

Finland
*Stockmann
*Sokos
*Anttila

France
*Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV)
*Le Bon Marché
*Galeries Lafayette
*Nouvelles Galeries
*Printemps
*La Samaritaine

Germany
*Kaufhof
*Karstadt
*Hertie (merged with Kaufhof)
*Horten (merged with Kaufhof)
*Müller

Hong Kong
* Citistore (http://www.hld.com/associate/citistore/)
* Citysuper
* CRC Department Store
* Daimaru (branches now closed in Hong Kong)
* Jusco (part of AEON)
* Lane Crawford
* Matsuzakaya (branch now closed in Hong Kong)
* Marks & Spencer
* Mitsukoshi
* New World Development Co. Ltd./New World
* Seibu Department Store
* Seiyu Group/Seiyu
* Sincere
* Sogo
* UNY
* Wing On
* Yaohan

Indonesia
* Matahari
* Ramayana (department store)/Ramayana
* Sogo
* Metro (department store)/Metro

Ireland
* Arrnots
* Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
* Dunnes Stores
* Roaches Stores
* Marks and Spencer

Japan
*Apita (part of UNY)
*Daiei
*Daikuma
*Daimaru
*Hankyu Department Store
*Hanshin Department Store
*Ito Yokado
*Iwataya
*Izutsuya
*Jusco (part of AEON)
*Keio Department Store
*Kintetsu Department Store
*Maruei
*Matsuya Co., Ltd./Matsuya
*Matsuzakaya
*Meitetsu Department Store
*Mitsukoshi
*Printemps Ginza
*Parco
*Odakyu Department Store
*Saty (part of Mycal)
*Seibu Department Store
*Seiyu Group/Seiyu
*Sogo
*Takashimaya
*Tobu Department Store
*Tokyu Department Store
*UNY

Netherlands
*Bijenkorf (part of Vendex KBB)
*Hema (department store)/Hema (ditto)
*Vroom & Dreesmann (ditto)

Philippines
*Robinsons Department Store [http://www.rds.com.ph/]

Puerto Rico
*Macy's
*JC Penney
*Kmart
*Sears, Roebuck and Company
*Wal-Mart

Saudi Arabia
*Al Hamada

Singapore
*Takashimaya
*Robinsons
*Isetan
*Seiyu
*Daimaru(Branches now closed in Singapore)
*Yaohan (Branches now closed in Singapore)
*Tangs
*Marks and Spencer
*Sogo (Branches now closed in Singapore)
*Metro (department store)/Metro
*OG

South Korea
*Akyung
*Donga
*Galleria Department Store
*Heemang
*Hyundai (department store)/Hyundai
*LG (department store)/LG
*Lotte
*Sinsegye

Spain
*El Corte Inglés

Sweden
*Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm and Gothenburg
*Åhléns, Stockholm

Switzerland
*Jelmoli, Zürich
*Globus, Zürich

United Kingdom
*Allders
**incorporating Arding & Hobbs (Clapham Junction)
*Army & Navy
*Barkers
*Beale's
*Bentalls
*David Morgan (Cardiff)
*Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
*Dingles Plymouth
*Fenwicks
*Harrods
*Harvey Nichols
*House of Fraser
*James Howells (Cardiff)
*Jarrolds (Norwich)
*Jenners (Edinburgh)
*Jollys
*John Lewis Partnership/John Lewis
*Liberty (department store)/Liberty
*Marks & Spencer
*Ricemans (Canterbury, Kent/Canterbury)
*T.J. Hughes
*Selfridges
*http://www.shop4offers.co.uk online department store
*Sogo
*Jessops of Nottingham/Jessops (Nottingham) Bought by John Lewis Partnership in 1933 but held original name until 2002

United States of America

* Belk America's largest privately-held department store.
* Big Lots!, national. Caters to lower class. Former names were Pic N' Save in the West and McFrugal's on the East Coast.
* Bi-Mart, almost exclusively in Washington and Oregon.
* Bon-Ton, Northeast
* BJ's Wholesale (eastern US), similar to Sam's Club
* Dillard's, National [http://www.shareholder.com/dillards/history.cfm]
** D.H. Holmes (New Orleans)
** Maison Blanche (South-east), stores are now Dillard's
** Mercantile Stores (Cincinnati)
** Stix, Baer, Fuller

* Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

* Federated Department Stores.
**Abraham & Straus on level with Macy's and Sterns. FDS closed both A&S and Sterns within the last few years. Both were mainly New York Stores
**Bloomingdale's High-end department store, owned by Federated Department Stores, caters to wealthy and super-wealthy.
**Macy's - probably the strongest nationwide middle class department store brand. In recent years this store was acquired by Federated Department Stores, caters mostly to middle and upper middle class, as well as some of the upper class. Rumors though say Bloomingdales will become even more high end and Macy's will become a lower end store, closer to the J.C. Penney level. All the names hyphenated with Macy's below will be merged directly into Macy's by the end of 2005.
*** Bon Marché (Bon-Macy's),
*** Burdines (Burdines-Macy's),
*** Goldsmith's (Goldsmith's-Macy's)
*** Lazarus-Macy's/Lazarus (Lazarus-Macy's)
*** Liberty House (defunct, merged into Macy's)
*** Rich's (Rich's-Macy's)
*** Davidson's (defunct, merged into Macy's)
*** Bambergers (defunct, merged into Macy's)
*** Stern's (defunct, merged into Macy's)

* Fred Meyer, a department store (technically, a hypermarket) in the Pacific Northwest owned by Kroger, the supermarket conglomerate

* Gottschalk's Fresno, California/Fresno middle class retailer; primarily in California [http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml?COID=10670]

* JC Penney national department store that caters to the middle class.

* Kohl's originally Midwest, but now national department store that caters to the lower and middle class

* Kresge's (later Kmart), going from dime store to mass market discounter, started in Detroit

* May Department Stores
** Famous Barr Midwest
** Filene's, New England
** Foley's, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico
** Hecht's, Mid Atlantic
** Kaufmann's, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
** L.S. Ayres Indiana
** Meier & Frank Washington, Oregon, Utah
** Robinsons-May California, Arizona, Nevada
** Strawbridge's Pennsylvania
** Lord & Taylor national department store catering to affluent although it focuses on American designers
*** Wanamaker's original flagship store in Philadelphia: chain bought by May Department Stores in 1995
** Marshall Field and Company, Chicago now owned by Target Corporation/Target (Sale to May Department Stores announced June 2004); first store with a bridal registry
*** Dayton's, Minneapolis, Minnesota/Minneapolis now Marshall Field & Co
*** Hudson's, Detroit now Marshall Field's
*** Donaldson's (defunct) (Minneapolis) (by way of Carson Pirie Scott, Mervyn's Minneapolis)

* Meijer, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky

*Neiman Marcus, Dallas very high end department store catering to wealthy upper classes, owns Bergdorf Goodman as well competes Saks and Bloomingdales.
**Bergdorf Goodman, currently owned by Neiman Marcus Group. This is one of Saks' competitors on 5th Avenue. The store caters to the opulent clients in New York, Long Island as well as aristocracy domestic and aboard.
* Nordstrom national department stores competes for upper class with Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdales, but some consumers consider "Bloomies" to be even higher than Nordstrom or Lord & Taylor

* Pamida

* Saks
** Bergner's (Illinois)
** Boston Store (Wisconsin)
** Carson Pirie Scott (Illinois)
**Gimbel's: (defunct) The rivalry of Macy's and Gimbel's is immortalized in Miracle on 34th Street: Benard Gimbel the owner of Gimbel's along with Horace Saks founded the store Saks Fifth Avenue.
** Herberger's (Upper Great Plains)
** I. Magnin (defunct)
** McRae's (Southeast)
** Parisian (store)/Parisian (Southeast)
** Proffitt's (Southeast)
** Saks Fifth Avenue (National) upscale, caters to wealthy
** Younkers (Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin)

*Sears, Roebuck and Company, later Sears, originally of Chicago, its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker." Known better for electronics and appliances, clothing is lower end.

*Spiegel, mostly a catalog company

* ShopKo, regional, West/Midwest

* Target Stores/Target, national, renowned as the "hip" mass-market discounter, called "Tar-zhay" by the clever
**Mervyn's, a California-based chain specializing in clothing; caters to middle class; in process of phaseout by Target Corporation/Target, with some stores being acquired by May Department Stores

*TJ Maxx and the TJX Companies, national off-price chain which also operates Marshalls and A.J. Wright

* Wal-Mart, national discount store catering primarily to lower and middle classes. Now also operates Supercenters which are combined discount stores and supermarkets.
Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota
* WiseBuys, founded 2003 in Governeur, New York/Governeur, New York; acquired an Ames in Canton, New York as its first location.

= Defunct U.S. chains not acquired by extant chains or liquidated=
* Ames Discount Stores/Ames
* B. Altman and Company (New York City)
* The Broadway (Southern California) Headquartered in Los Angeles, California/Los Angeles. Part of defunct Carter Hawley Hale Stores. Retailer for many decades finally closed for good in 1991.
* Bradlees
* Caldor
* Fedco (Southern California) Membership-based department store - including grocery, and in some locations, furniture - that served middle class. Went bankrupt. Circa 1950-1994.
* Fedmart (Southern California) First mass-market discount retail/grocery chain Sol Price founded. Was headquartered in San Diego, California/San Diego in the 92111 ZIP Code. Price voluntarily closed the chain. Price later founded Price Club based upon what he learned from his Fedmart days. Price Club has since been merged into Costco. Circa 1965-75.
* Gemco (California) Membership department store with grocery. Operated as subsidiary of Lucky Stores until liquidated in early 1987 due to hostile takeover attempts. Lucky was later acquired into what is now called Albertsons. Circa 1968-1987.
* Hills
* Hochschild Kohn's (Baltimore)
* Hutzler's (Baltimore)
* Krauss (New Orleans)
* S. H. Kress & Co.
* McCrory, national,
* Montgomery Ward, first mail order store
* Stewart's (department store)/Stewart's (Baltimore)
* Woodward and Lothrop (Washington, DC); stores were acquired by The Hecht Company (Hecht's) and rebranded.
* Woolworth, national, classic dime store
* W. T. Grant national. Stores called Grant's or (the larger stores) Grant City.
* Zayre
* Zody's, national, catered to lower class

See also
*List of companies

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Tag: Retailers
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