Hudson's Bay (french: La Baie d'Hudson), known colloquially and operating online as The Bay (French: ), is a Canadian

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chain. It is the flagship brand of the

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(HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the world. Founded on 2 May 1670, the Hudson's Bay Company opened its first department store in 1881 in

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. The chain operated under the company name before being rebranded to The Bay in 1965. It operated exclusively in

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until the acquisitions and conversions of department stores Morgan's, Freimans,

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, Woodward's, coupled with the opening of new locations, positioned its presence nationwide in the second half of the 20th century. After nearly 50 years with The Bay brand, the chain was rebranded in 2013 to Hudson's Bay with a modernized logo. In 2021, The Bay name (but not the logo) was revived exclusively for the online website while the physical stores continue with the Hudson's Bay brand. Hudson's Bay Chinook Centre

, Hudson's Bay operates 86 locations in seven

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. From 2017–2019, it operated in the Netherlands, in partnership with Austrian real estate company

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. The full-line department stores focus on high-end

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apparel, accessories, and home goods; flagship stores carry a bigger range and selection of goods than typical locations. The flagship stores are often multi-storey, historic buildings and are located in Canada's largest cities (

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and

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). The largest of the flagship stores is the Toronto store on Queen Street, at about .

History

Early history

The diversification of the

(HBC) became necessary with the decline of

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in the latter half of the 19th century, and the Deed of Surrender in which ownership of the

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and Rupert's Land was transferred from HBC to the newly established country of Canada in 1870. The first Hudson's Bay Company store opened in 1881 in

with an inventory consisting of dry goods, groceries, and hardware. HBC reorganized into fur trade, lands sales, and retail divisions in 1910; with the guidance of a director from the British department store

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, they began construction of full-line department stores in 1913. This "modernization program" resulted the "original six" department stores in

and

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;

and Victoria in

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; Winnipeg in Manitoba; and

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. Hudson's Bay Company entered the provinces of

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and

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with its acquisition of the

-based Morgan's department store chain in 1960; that year, only the Morgan's stores in Ontario were converted to Hudson's Bay Company stores.

Following renaming to The Bay

Hudson's Bay Company stores were renamed The Bay (which was already a popular nickname) in 1965, while the Morgan's stores in Quebec were renamed La Baie in 1972. That same year, Hudson's Bay purchased Ottawa's Freimans department store and moved from the former Morgan's building on Sparks Street to the Freiman building on Rideau Street, closer to competing

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and Caplan's. The Bay further expanded its presence in Eastern Canada by absorbing the

department store chain in 1978 and 1993 in Western Canada by taking over many former Woodward's outlets. The Toronto Queen Street flagship store was previously a Simpsons department store. In 1991, Hudson's Bay Company stopped selling fur. In 1997 the company reopened its fur salons, including a wider assortment of high-end designer furs. Fur salons included many exclusive fur designers, including

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, Givenchy, Black Diamond

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, and Grosvenor. On 16 July 2008, it was announced that Hudson's Bay Company had been purchased by the US firm

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, which owned Lord & Taylor. In August 2008, Bonnie Brooks was hired as president and chief executive officer of the Hudson's Bay Company. As the result of market research, Brooks began to focus on bolstering high-end fashion as a growth segment. These moves included a major revamp of the chain's selection of labels, and a renovation and relaunch of The Room—a luxury women's department at the Queen Street location. During the

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in Vancouver, a heritage-oriented campaign was used to promote The Bay and an accompanying line of Olympic-themed apparel, which was considered to be a significant success. In 2010, the Queen Street location saw a 22% increase in year-over-year sales. In 2011, The Bay launched White Space—a new younger-skewing "contemporary" department—at selected locations.

Following renaming to Hudson's Bay

Hudson's Bay Company announced alongside its

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that The Bay stores would be renamed to Hudson's Bay beginning in October 2012; replacing the stylized yellow "B" used since 1965 with the Hudson's Bay wordmark and coat of arms. The new Hudson's Bay rebranding campaign was officially launched on 6 March 2013. On 31 August 2019, the company announced that all 15 of its Dutch locations would be sold by year end, the final chapter of HBC's European venture. Hudson's Bay stores were temporarily closed beginning on 17 March 2020 in response to the

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. The stores began gradually reopening on 19 May. In August 2021, HBC split the online business of Hudson's Bay into its own separate division. The online portion is now officially called The Bay, while the physical stores retained the Hudson's Bay name.

Flagship stores

Hudson's Bay operates five flagship stores in four provinces. These flagship stores are in multi-storey historic buildings in the downtowns of Canada's largest cities. The largest, the Toronto store building on the southwest corner of

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and Queen Street West, was converted from Simpsons in 1991. Considered the flagship of the chain, it currently occupies , while a fifth of previously-occupied space was converted to the Canadian

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flagship store in 2015. Hudson's Bay Company sold the building to Cadillac Fairview, which owns the adjacent Toronto Eaton Centre, in 2014 and entered into a

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agreement through at least 2039. Conversely, the Ottawa store on Rideau Street occupies and is the smallest flagship that remains in a landmark building; it was converted from Freimans in 1973. Hudson's Bay Queen Street Level 2 2021

Hudson's Bay formerly operated a store in the

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, at the intersection of

and Bloor Street at the east end of the

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in Toronto, opened in 1974 and succeeded the Winnipeg location to become the flagship store of the chain (despite being actually smaller in size than the former), and then was replaced as the chain's flagship by the Queen Street West store in 1991. The Hudson's Bay Centre store shuttered on 13 May 2022, with the site expected to be redeveloped in conjunction with a major overhaul of the Bloor-Yonge TTC station. Hudson's Bay operated flagship stores in Victoria, Edmonton (see below), Regina and Saskatoon but vacated these locations in 1999, in favor of spaces in major downtown shopping centres that were left vacant by the bankruptcy of rival department store chain

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that year. After the exit of Hudson's Bay, these former flagship locations have been repurposed for other tenants. Recently in October 2020, due to changing shopping habits towards online purchasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the parent of Hudson's Bay has considered downsizing some stores and redeveloping the surplus space for mixed-use. Hudson's Bay Chinook Centre 2

Two flagship stores in the

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were announced to be phased out in the aftermath of the

. The 1926-built

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store on Portage Avenue was the flagship of the chain between 1926 and 1974. The Winnipeg building was valued at $0 by Cushman & Wakefield in 2019, due to the expense of renovating the heritage-protected building for other uses, as well as the competition from newer commercial real estate properties in the suburbs like Polo Park. The downtown Edmonton store on Jasper Avenue was built in 1939 on land that had been occupied by Hudson's Bay Company since 1893. It closed in 1995, two years after another The Bay store opened as an

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of the Edmonton City Centre. The latter eventually relocated to the former

store of the same shopping mall in 2002. Consequently, at , it was the smallest Hudson's Bay flagship. The Winnipeg store was phased out on 30 November 2020, and the Edmonton store was phased out on 3 June 2021. HBC stated that it was exploring the option of a leaseback agreement for the 1927-built Vancouver store in 2017, which has yet to materialize. File:The Bay flagship store Toronto 2009.jpg, Hudson's Bay Queen Street, the largest of the six flagship stores in

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(2009) File:Hudson's Bay Company store, Montréal, South view 20170410 1.jpg, Flagship store in the

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(2017) File:Freimans.png, Flagship store in the Freimans building on Rideau Street in Downtown Ottawa (2006) File:HBCWinnipeg.JPG, Flagship store in Winnipeg

Store format

The Room and West End Shop

The Room is a luxury boutique found in selected Hudson's Bay locations, which features a curated selection of women's apparel from upscale brands such as Balmain, Emmanuel Ungaro, Halston,

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, and others. Nicholas Mellamphy is the vice-president and buying director of The Room. Its namesake at the Yonge & Queen location in Toronto was established in the 1930s as the St. Regis Room, dating back to its time as a Simpsons store. It underwent a major renovation in 2009 by the design firm

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, with an increase to in floor space, and expanding its stock from around 12 brands to 70 (including more "moderately-priced" options). The $5.3 million renovation was positioned by Brooks as part of a plan to increase The Bay's focus on high-end fashion; there were also plans to expand The Room as a featured department at other flagship locations. The Room opened at the downtown Vancouver location in 2011, in the north-east section of the second floor. The department includes many of the designers available in the Toronto Queen Street flagship store, and some not available in the flagship store, including

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, Jeremy Liang, and

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. The Room opened in the downtown Montreal Hudson's Bay store in late 2013. The Toronto version of The Room was relocated to a different part of the store in 2015 to accommodate a new

location. The West End Shop is the men's version of The Room. The Toronto Queen Street and the Vancouver Granville West End Shops recently underwent an extensive renovation. The current collection contains labels such as Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna,

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, Ben Sherman, and Strellson.

Hudson's Bay Company Signature Shop

The Bay offers products from the Hudson's Bay Company Collection in a dedicated store, including items such as the iconic Point Blankets, coats, bed sheets, bags, T-shirts, lotions, scents, and candles. HBC has also partnered with Canadian companies like Virginia Johnson, Pink Tartan, and Klaxon Howl to create exclusive, limited edition merchandise. Customized canoes and oars are also available. HBC has also teamed up with international companies for limited edition products, such as

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(heritage teddy bear, limited run of 2 500), and Best Made Axe Co. While the Hudson's Bay Company shops appear mainly in flagship stores and its

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location, products from the Hudson's Bay Company Collection (not including limited edition items) are also available at other locations, most notably the Point Blanket. The four-point stripes have also been trademarked worldwide, and are planned to be sold through international retailers which including Lord & Taylor in the US, and Colette in France, in an attempt to market HBC as a brand.

Designer label boutiques

Boutiques for

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are in select locations, including Queen Street,

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, Bayshore Ottawa, Carrefour Laval, Galeries d'Anjou, Vancouver Downtown, Victoria Downtown, Laurier Québec, and Montreal Downtown. Each boutique contains customized decor, and dedicated company specialists. The Toronto Queen Street and Montreal Downtown store has opened ground floor boutiques for Burberry,

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Leathergoods, and See by Chloé. Vancouver and Montreal ground-floor designer boutiques will follow. Hudson's Bay has ended its partnership with Saint-Laurent-based Browns Shoes, and closed all Browns locations in its stores, to allow the department store to offer a larger selection of shoes, and to partner with the Montreal-based

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. Hudson's Bay is now also offering higher-end brands, keeping in line with offerings from The Room and the West End Shop. The partnership with the Aldo Group began in spring 2011 when the revived Pegabo brand of footwear is going to be carried in Hudson's Bay and in Aldo's own FeetFirst and Locale locations. The website includes online shopping for home fashions and beauty products, and a gift registry.

Brand identity

Logo

The Hudson's Bay Company wordmark was written in

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script before 1965. Lippincott & Margulies designed the "folk-friendly" 1965 The Bay logo, which features a stylized yellow "B" that was previously seen on the header of Hudson Bay Company's

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from 1670. Morgan's stores in Quebec featured a logo with an "M" stylized similarly to the "B" from 1969 until they were rebranded to La Baie in 1972. Lipman designed the 2013 Hudson's Bay rebranding campaign; it restores the Hudson's Bay Company

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, redrawn by Mark Summers. The wordmark is used on all public-facing materials, and has been compared to the typeface used by British fashion house

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. The coat of arms is reserved for limited occasions. Before the official rebranding launch, the logo appeared on the exterior of the Vancouver flagship store in December 2012. File:The Bay Logo 1965.png, The Bay logo, used from 1965–2013. File:Hudson's Bay Wordmark 2013.svg, Hudson's Bay wordmark, in use since 2013

References

External links

The Bay
Formerly the website of Hudson's Bay. Now a separate division of HBC. {{Hudson's_Bay_Trading_Company,_L.P. Companies based in Toronto Department stores of Canada Hudson's Bay Company Retail companies established in 1670