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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 under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...

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

Currently trading: * Woolworths Defunct: *

Stuttafords Stuttaford's was a chain of upscale department stores in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia that operated for 159 years from 1858 through 2017. It was nicknamed the "Harrods of South Africa". At closing it had seven stores in South Africa, tw ...

Egypt

Currently trading

Marks & Spencer Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks & Sparks or simply Marks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home produc ...

Omar Effendi Omar Effendi () is a chain of department stores in Egypt that was founded in 1856 by Leon Orosdi and Hermann Back as ''Orosdi-Back''. The chain has 82 branches across Egypt and is owned by the Holding Company for Tourism, Hotels and Trade a branch ...

Defunct: * Adès * Benzion * Chemla * Cicurel *

Debenhams Debenhams plc was a British department store chain that operated in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark, as well as franchised locations across Europe and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1778 as a single store in London and gr ...

* Orosdi-Back * Salon Vert * Sednaoui

Eswatini

* Edgars * Woolworths

Ghana

Defunct: * Edgars * Woolworths (2002–2019)

Kenya

* Woolworths

Lesotho

* Edgars * Woolworths

Madagascar

Defunct: *

Printemps Printemps is a French luxury department store chain founded in 1865, which focuses on beauty, lifestyle, fashion and accessories. The flagship store "le Printemps Haussmann" is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Pari ...

Morocco

Currently trading: *

Defunct: *

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

(1920s–1970s; 2011–2016)

Mozambique

* Woolworths

Namibia

Currently trading: * Edgars * Woolworths *

Nigeria

Defunct: * Woolworths (2011–2013)

South Africa

Currently trading: * Edgars * Woolworths Defunct: * Garlicks *

Tanzania

* Woolworths

Uganda

* Woolworths

Zambia

* Woolworths

Defunct

* Edgars

Zimbabwe

* Edgars

North America / Central America

Canada

Currently trading: *

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

Giant Tiger Giant Tiger Stores Limited is a Canadian discount store chain which operates over 260 stores across Canada. The company's stores operate under the Giant Tiger banner in Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island ...

– discount department store chain founded in 1961. Most locations are found in Eastern Canada, but has a small number of locations in all three of the prairie provinces. *

Hart Hart often refers to: * Hart (deer) * Hart (surname) 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 store ...

– Department store chain founded in 1960. Stores located across Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Amherst, Nova Scotia *

Holt Renfrew Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited (Trade name, doing business as Holt Renfrew and Colloquialism, colloquially Holt's) is a Economy of Canada, Canadian luxury department store chain founded in 1837 by William S. Henderson. The original William Ashton ...

– high-end department store chain *

Simons Simons is a surname. Notable people A * Alan Simons (born 1968), Welsh goalkeeper * Alexandra Simons de Ridder (born 1963), German equestrian * Algie Martin Simons (1870–1950), American socialist journalist, newspaper editor and political ac ...

– Department store founded in 1840. Stores in Québec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia. Defunct: * Adilman's Department Store – Saskatoon, SK (1921–1974) * A.L. Green - chain of department stores. Merged with Greenberg Stores about 1980. * 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 Dylex Limited was one of Canada's largest retailers during the 1970s and 1980s, where it operated a number of specialty retail stores, including womenswear, menswear and family stores, including BiWay, a large and now defunct Canadian discount c ...

– discount store based in Ontario, defunct in 2001 * The Bon Marché – independent discount variety store in St. John's, Newfoundland 1919–1971 *

Bowring Brothers Bowring Brothers Ltd. (or simply Bowring) was a Newfoundland-based operator of retail stores, that, after Newfoundland became part of Canada, expanded its operation and narrowed its focus to gifts and home decor throughout Canada. Bowring was ...

– St. John's, NL, department store, also national home decor store chain 1811–2019 *

Bretton's Bretton's was a high-end department store in Canada from 1985 to 1996. The first two Bretton's stores were opened in Ottawa in 1985 by the parent company, Comark Incorporated. Comark (founded 1976), owned by the Brenninkmeijer family of the Nethe ...

– high-end department store, 1985–1996 * Caban – Club Monaco's Home Store, 2000–2006 *

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

– 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 Cana ...

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

Dupuis Frères Dupuis Frères was a large department store on Sainte-Catherine Street East, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The store was founded in 1868 by Nazaire Dupuis, and closed permanently in 1978. Dupuis Frères was a symbol of French-Canadian economic ...

– Montreal department store, founded by Nazaire Dupuis (1870), closed 1978 *

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

– founded in 1869, 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. History Archibald Jacob Freiman was born in Lithuania in 1880, and emigrated to Ha ...

– longtime Ottawa retailer, acquired by the Bay in 1972 * Goudies – Kitchener, Ontario (1918–1988) *

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 established in 1999, that sold bedding, towel A towel () is a piece of absorption ( ...

– home goods store, subsidiary of Hudsons Bay Company, 1999–2019 * Hudson's Bay – department store owned by

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...

(HBC). Formerly called The Bay, 1881—2025 *

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

Kmart Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...

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 store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1931. It was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1978, and after a series of acquisitions and expansions, peaked with 350 locations in 1999. However, fierce ...

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

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, 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 9,471 ...

Antigonish Antigonish ( ; ) is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The town is home to St. Francis Xavier University and the oldest continuous Highland games outside Scotland. It is approximately 160 kilometres (100 miles) northeast of Hal ...

-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 LW Stores, Inc. was a retailer which liquidated consumer merchandise through 94 outlets across Canada and three in the United States. It also provided store-closure sales management and solved asset recovery problems in a professional manner for ...

– furniture, hardware, home, grocery, health & beauty, clothing liquidation retailer *

– British retailer's Canadian stores first opened 1973 and closed 1999 *

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– discount department store chain (1908–1997); sister chain of

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

and Greenberg Stores, later converted to the SAAN name *

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

– 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 in Montreal, and expanded to include 11 stores in Ontario and Quebec before being bought by Hudson's Bay Com ...

– 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". Murphy ...

– 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. I ...

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

– (2014–2023) *

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

(Charles Ogilvy Limited) – Ottawa-area chain, merged with Robinson's in the 1980s, defunct 1990s *

(Jas. A. Ogilvy's Limited) – Montreal department store, founded by James A. Ogilvy (1866), merged with Holt-Renfrew (2019) * 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. By October 1988, the company had 28 stores and acquired 15 Continental outlets in eastern Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario to ...

; 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 ...

in the autumn of 1992 * Robinson's (G. W. Robinson Co. Ltd.) – store in

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(1899–1992) * S&R Department Store – discount store in

Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the six most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

(1959–2009) and Belleville. *

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

– smaller, downtown locations *

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

Sam's Club Sam's West, Inc. (doing business as Sam's Club) is a chain of membership-only warehouse club retail stores in the United States owned by Walmart. It was founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton as Sam's Wholesale Club. , Sam's ...

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

Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue (Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain founded in 1867 by Andrew Saks. The first store opened in the F Street and 7th Street shopping districts, F Street shopping distric ...

– high-end department store * 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 September 18, 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as S ...

– 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

* Stanley Mills & Co. – Hamilton, Ontario (1888–1985) * Stedmans or later Stedmans V&S - Chain of small department stores across Canada founded 1907 - today remaining stores are independents. * 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 a short-lived Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary formed with the acquisition of Zellers store lea ...

– part of US giant

Target Corporation Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of th ...

(2013–2015) * Taylor's – Quebec department store * Thomas C. Watkins Limited ("The Right House") – department store in Hamilton, Ontario (closed 1983) run by Thomas C. Watkins *

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 w ...

/BoniMart – sold to Zellers in 1990 and name retired in 1991, with closure of final stores * Walker's - Division of Gordon Mackay & Co Ltd. Purchased by Marks & Spencers in the 1970's *

– 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

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 in the United States and 23 other ...

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

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

– discount department store, usually in the suburbs, acquired by

Wal-Mart 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 in the United States and 23 other ...

in 1994 *

Woolworth's Woolworth, Woolworth's, or Woolworths may refer to: Businesses Australia and New Zealand * Woolworths Group (Australia), the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand; named after the American F.W. Woolworth company, but unrelated * W ...

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

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

The Bargain! Shop The Bargain! Shop Holdings, Inc., also known as TB!S, is a Canadian discount variety store chain operating in all Anglophone provinces in Canada, except PEI. The Bargain! Shop originated as a closeout store division of Woolworth Canada, devel ...

XS Cargo XS Cargo was a Canadian discount store chain founded in 1996 by Mike McKenna and headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. At its peak, it operated 50 warehouse-style stores, the first of which opened in Edmonton, Alberta, mostly in strip malls, acro ...

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

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

– 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. In spring 2023 HBC re-opened some Zellers stores within select Hudson's Bay Stores

Cuba

* El Encanto – operating from 1888 to 1959 *

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...

– operating from 1954 to 1960

El Salvador

(opened in 2010) * Siman (opened in 1921) Defunct: *

Sanborns Sanborns is a chain of stores with a format combining a restaurant with a junior department store, with locations across Mexico and dates to 1903. It is part of Grupo Sanborns, in turn owned by Grupo Carso of the Carlos Slim empire. Format T ...

(2004–2020) * Carrion (2003–2019)

Mexico

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– biggest department store chain in Mexico * El Palacio de Hierro – high-end department store *

– division of Carso Comercial *

Sears Mexico Sears Operadora México, S.A. de C.V. () is a department store chain located in Mexico, operating 93 stores all over Mexico Sears México is operated by Grupo Sanborns, a division of Grupo Carso. History Early history On 26 February 19 ...

– division of Carso Comercial *

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Defunct

Fábricas de Francia Fábricas de Francia () was a Mexican department store founded in 1878 in Guadalajara as a lingerie store by 3 French immigrants. In 1988, the El Puerto de Liverpool group bought the chain. By 2018, there were 41 Fábricas stores across Mexico. In 2 ...

(1878-2019) *

(2007–2022)

Puerto Rico

* Tiendas Capri - department store chain, founded in 1963. * Me Salvé - discount department store chain, founded in 1982. * Grand Way - discount department store chain, founded in 2013. * Grand Stores - discount department store chain, founded in 1984. *

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC , Trade name, doing business as JCPenney (colloquially Penney's and abbreviated JCP) is an American department store chain store, chain with 649 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. It is managed as part of the Catalys ...

- national department store chain, established on the island in 1968 at the

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shopping mall. *

Macy's Macy's is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. The first store was located in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, south of the present-day flagship store at Herald Square on West 34 ...

- national department store chain, established on the island in the year 2000 at the

shopping mall, expanded with another store on the island in 2015 at the

Plaza del Caribe Plaza del Caribe is an enclosed shopping mall located in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is owned by Empresas Fonalledas, and is the largest mall in southern Puerto Rico. The mall is located at the intersection of Puerto Rico Highway 2 and Highway 12. ...

shopping mall. *

Marshalls Marshalls, Inc. is an American chain of discount store, off-price department stores owned by TJX Companies. Marshalls has over 1,000 American stores, including larger stores named Marshalls Mega Store (stores operating with HomeGoods combined), ...

- national department store chain, established on the island in 1937, downsized with multiple closures, one store left at the

shopping mall as of today. *

TJ Maxx TJ Maxx (stylized as T•J•maxx) is an American discount department store chain. It has more than 1,000 stores in the United States, making it one of the largest clothing retailers in the country. TJ Maxx is the flagship chain of the TJX Comp ...

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 1,100 stores in 47 states and Puerto Rico, with it ...

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and as of August 2024, Cos ...

* Sam’s Club *

Ross Dress For Less Ross Stores, Inc., operating under the brand name Ross Dress for Less, is an American chain of discount department stores headquartered in Dublin, California. It is the largest off-price retailer in the U.S.; as of July 2024, Ross operates 1,795 ...

Defunct: *

González Padín González Padín was a high-end department store based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The chain which operated in Puerto Rico at its peak had 10 stores. The chain closed in 1995, and at the time of closure it was the biggest and oldest department st ...

- high-end department store chain, founded in 1884, biggest and oldest local department store on the island until closure in 1995 due to economic problems. *

Es de Velasco Es de Velasco, or mostly just known as "Velasco", was a chain of high-end department stores operating in Puerto Rico. The chain was later bought out by its main competitor González Padín in 1991 and closed in 1995. History Origins The US fo ...

- high-end department store chain, founded in 1939, acquired by competitor González Padín in 1991, closed in 1995. *

New York Department Stores New York Department Stores was a chain of department stores operating in Puerto Rico. History Origins In the 1930s, there were only small merchants in Puerto Rico. The island had not yet begun the industrialization process. People made their ...

- department store chain, founded in 1931, acquired in 1994 by the Melville Corp., most stores turned to

or closed. * Pitusa - discount department store chain, founded in 1976, downsized due to economic problems and ultimately closed last stores in 2014 after bankruptcy. *

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- discount department store chain, founded in 1967, downsized due to economic problems ultimately closing in the 2010s. *

- national department store chain, established on the island in 1964 at the

San Patricio Plaza San Patricio Plaza is a three-level enclosed shopping mall located in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The mall is located at the intersection of Puerto Rico Highway 2, PR-2, Puerto Rico Highway 23, PR-23, and Puerto Rico Highway 20, PR-20, and has over ...

shopping mall, closed last store in 2022 located at the

shopping mall. * Barkers - discount department store chain, established on the island in 1962, ultimately closed in 1984.

United States

South America

Argentina

* Coto *

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* Easy *

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* La Anonima *

Defunct: * Casa Tía *

Harrods Harrods is a Listed building, Grade II listed luxury department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. It was designed by C. W. Stephens for Charles Digby Harrod, and opened in 1905; it replaced the first store on the ground ...

Bolivia

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Brazil

Currently trading: *

Daslu Daslu was 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 social ...

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

Lojas Renner Lojas Renner ( Portuguese: ''Renner Stores''; ) is a Brazilian department store clothing company, headquartered in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was the first Brazilian corporation with a hundred percent of shares traded on the St ...

* Lojas Riachuelo * Máquina de Vendas Defunct: * Mappin *

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

* Muricy *

Chile

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

– largest and oldest department store in Chile *

La Polar La Polar is the fourth largest retail company in Chile, behind Falabella, Paris S.A and Ripley S.A. The company has 43 stores, being 38 in Chile and 5 in Colombia and offers various products, such as clothing, accessories, sporting goods, bea ...

* Ripley *

Abcdin Abcdin (AW-Beh-CEH-Deen) is a Chilean homeware Household goods are goods and products used within households. They are the tangible and movable personal property placed in the rooms of a house, such as a bed or refrigerator. Economic role Busi ...

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 – 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: *

– supermarket chain, belongs to the Cencosud Group *

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

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

joint venture

Colombia

Currently trading: * Casa Tía *

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

Flamingo Flamingos or flamingoes () are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbe ...

Makro Makro is a Netherlands, Dutch international brand of warehouse clubs, also called Cash and carry (wholesale), cash and carry stores. Makro was founded by SHV Holdings, a Dutch conglomerate based in Utrecht in partnership with German company ...

Defunct: *

* 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: *

* 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 Metro may refer to: Geography * Metro City (Indonesia), a city in Indonesia * A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center Public transport * Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high ...

- hypermarket property of Chilean

Cencosud Cencosud S.A. is a publicly traded retail company based in Chile. It is the largest retail company in Chile and the third largest listed retail company in Latin America, competing with the Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição and the ...

Plaza Vea Super Food Holding, trading under the name Supermercados Peruanos S.A. (SPSA), is a Peruvian company that owns a number of supermarket chains. Founded in 1979, it began operations under its current name in 2004 after its acquisition by Interbank ...

– hypermarket property of

Supermercados Peruanos Super Food Holding, trading under the name Supermercados Peruanos S.A. (SPSA), is a Peruvian company that owns a number of supermarket chains. Founded in 1979, it began operations under its current name in 2004 after its acquisition by Interbank ...

* Tottus – hypermarket property of Chilean Falabella Holdings *

Vivanda Super Food Holding, trading under the name Supermercados Peruanos S.A. (SPSA), is a Peruvian company that owns a number of supermarket chains. Founded in 1979, it began operations under its current name in 2004 after its acquisition by Interbank ...

– supermarket property of Supermercados Peruanos *

Wong Wong or Mr Wong may refer to: Name * Wong (surname), a Chinese surname, listing people and fictional characters with the surname * Wong (Marvel Comics), manservant/mentor to Doctor Strange Sr./Jr. in Marvel Comics ** Wong (Marvel Cinematic Univer ...

– supermarket property of Chilean Cencosud

Uruguay

Defunct: * London París

Venezuela

Currently trading: *

Graffiti Graffiti (singular ''graffiti'', or ''graffito'' only in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written "monikers" to elabor ...

* Macuto * Traki Defunct: *

- sold to Organización Cisneros in 1984, rebranded to Maxy's until it became defunct in 1995.

Asia

Bahrain

Brunei

Currently trading: * Hua Ho Department Store Defunct: *

China

Currently trading: * Beijing Hualian * Dashang Group *

* Isetan and Mitsukoshi Department Stores * Jiuguang Department Store * Pacific Sogo *

Parkson Parkson Holdings Berhad (doing business as Parkson; ; ) is a Malaysia-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, Vie ...

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

Defunct: *

Seiyu Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs. In Japan, and ac ...

– sold to

Beijing Hualian Group The Beijing Hualian Group (, using the trademark BHG) is a leading Chinese retailer founded in 1998, headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the fifteen large national retail enterprises supported by the Ministry of Commerce and the only Chinese ...

* 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 *

Hong Kong

Currently trading: * APiTA *

c!ty'super C!ty’super, stylised in logos as "c!ty'super" (the company name is City Super Limited), is a retail chain in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Positioned as a mega lifestyle specialty store, its core format of upmarket super ...

– since 1996 * Citistore *

Fortnum & Mason Fortnum & Mason plc (colloquially often shortened to just Fortnum's) is an Luxury goods, upmarket department store in London, England. The main store is located at 181 Piccadilly in the St James's area of London, where it was established in 1707 ...

Harvey Nichols Harvey Nichols Group Limited ( trading as Harvey Nichols) is a British luxury department store chain founded in 1831 by Benjamin Harvey; it is headquartered at its flagship store in Knightsbridge, London. It sells designer fashion collections ...

* JUSCO – part of AEON Group *

Lane Crawford Lane Crawford (HK) Limited () is a retail company founded in 1850 operating specialist department stores selling luxury goods in Hong Kong and Mainland China. It is headquartered in , Wong Chuk Hang. Lane Crawford is a part of the Lane Crawfo ...

– since 1850 *

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 t ...

Seibu Department Stores is a Japanese depato, 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 subsid ...

* Sincere Department Store – since 1900 *

Sogo is a department store chain with a significant presence in Japan. It operates a network of branches in various countries and has a long history dating back to 1830 when it was founded in Osaka by Ihei Sogō. The company is known for its retail ...

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

– closed in 1998 *

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

Matsuzakaya (Tokyo Stock Exchange, TYO: 8235, delisted) is a major Japanese Depato, 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 headq ...

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

– bankrupt in 1997

India

Currently trading: *

Lifestyle Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture. The term "style of life" () was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in his 1929 book, ''The Case of Miss R.'', w ...

Shoppers Stop Shoppers Stop is an Indian department store chain, owned by the K Raheja Corp. There are 108 stores across 45 cities in India, with clothing, accessories, handbags, shoes, jewellery, fragrances, cosmetics, health and beauty products, home fur ...

Planned opening: *

– opening in 2025 Defunct: *

– operating from 2007 to 2015 *

* Pantaloons

Indonesia

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

– Jakarta ** Lotte – Jakarta **

LuLu Lulu may refer to: Companies * LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer * Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer * Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia * Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a C ...

– Jakarta, Tangerang **

– Jakarta, Tangerang, Bandung, Surabaya, Bali, Medan **

– Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Solo **

– Jakarta, Tangerang, Surabaya, Bali, Medan, Samarinda ** Seibu – Jakarta * Local department store brands: **

Ada Ada may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'', a novel by Vladimir Nabokov Film and television * Ada, a character in 1991 movie '' Armour of God II: Operation Condor'' * '' Ada... A Way of Life'', a 2008 Bollywo ...

– Semarang ** Ananda – Java ** Citrus – Bogor, Jakarta, Semarang ** Lima Cahaya – Kalimantan ** Matahari – nationwide ** Ramayana – nationwide ** Robinson – nationwide ** Cahaya – nationwide **

Sarinah PT Sarinah (Persero) is an Indonesian retail company owned by PT Aviasi Pariwisata Indonesia (Persero) (InJourney), a state-owned holding company. Its flagship store, Sarinah Building in M.H. Thamrin Street of Central Jakarta, was the first skys ...

– Jakarta ** Surya – Papua ** Transmart – nationwide ** Yogya - Java Defunct *

(cancelled opening in 1997) *

Hanshin , derived from the second kanji from and the first kanji from (but in ''on''-reading instead of ''kun''-reading), refers generally to Osaka, Kobe, and the surrounding area in the Kansai region of Japan. In the context of a region of Hyōgo ...

(cancelled opening in 1997) *

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

Israel

* Castro * Hamashbir Lazarchan * Honigman

Japan

Jordan

Aïshti Aïshti is an upmarket Lebanese department store chain founded in 1989. The company operates both Aïshti and Aïzone brands across Lebanon and Jordan. In 2016 the company recorded an annual revenue of $250 million. History Aïshti was founded ...

Kuwait

Currently trading: *

Defunct: * Villa Moda

Laos

Big C Big C, operated by Big C Supercenter Public Company Limited under Big C Retail Corporation Public Company Limited, is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2016, Big C was Thailand's second-largest hy ...

Lebanon

Currently trading: *

* ABC

Defunct

* Le BHV * Grands Magasins Byblos (

Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...

)

Macau

Currently trading: *

New Yaohan New Yaohan (, Portuguese language, 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 full ...

Defunct: *

Malaysia

Currently trading: *

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 ...

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 gent's and women's career wear. Today, the G200 ...

Metrojaya MJ Department Stores Sdn Bhd is a popular retail company in Malaysia which offers items at a medium-to-high rate. The company opened its first store at Pertama Complex, Kuala Lumpur in September, 1976,with a retail space of 18,305 sq ft (1,705 sq ...

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 the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

Padini Padini Holdings Berhad is an investment holding company based in Malaysia that sells shoes, garments, ancillary products, children’s garments, maternity wear, and accessories through its various subsidiaries. Its most notable brands are Padini ...

* Parkwell * Robinsons *

* SaSa Defunct: *

(2003–2006; 2008–unknown) *

(opened 1984) *

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 ...

(1995–unknown) *

(1987–1998)

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines

Currently trading: *

Isetann Isetann Department Store, Inc. under the trade name Isetann Department Store and Supermarket (or simply Isetann) is one of the retail operators in Metro Manila, the Philippines. It was incorporated in 1980 by Chinese-Filipino entrepreneurs Jo ...

* Manels *

* Robinsons Department Store *

SM Store SM Retail Inc. is a retail holding company based in Pasay, Philippines. It is a subsidiary of the conglomerate SM Investments Corporation. SM Retail has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores since 2009. History Th ...

Defunct: *

Qatar

Currently trading: *

Defunct: * Villa Moda

Saudi Arabia

Currently trading: *

* Paris Gallery *

Defunct: *

(2001–2010)

Singapore

Currently trading: *

– 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) *

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

– franchise (313@Somerset, Jewel Changi Airport, Marina Square, One Raffles Place, Paragon, Plaza Singapura, Parkway Parade Vivocity, Waterway Point, Wheelock Place) *

(Ngee Ann City) *

(Tang Plaza - Orchard Road, VivoCity) *OG (Chinatown, Bugis, Orchard Road) Defunct: *

– branches now closed in Singapore *

– 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 *

– 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 Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

Hyundai Department Store Hyundai Department Store () is a major department store chain in South Korea. Its parent company is the Hyundai Department Store Group. It, Lotte Department Store, and Shinsegae are the three largest chains in the country. Stores Seoul Metrop ...

– 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 Lotte Department Store () is a Korean retail company established in 1979, and headquartered in Sogong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Lotte Department Store offers retail consumer goods and services and is one out of 8 business units of Lot ...

– 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 China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, Vietnam, Hanoi, and Indonesia, Jakarta The top department stores with Lotte hotel complex. * M Department Store –

Chuncheon Chuncheon (; ; literally ''spring river''), formerly romanized as Ch'unch'ŏn, is the capital of Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city lies in the north of the country, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River (Korea), Han R ...

, Gangwon-do * NC Department Store - Part of

E-land group E·Land Group () 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 cornerstone, fashion ...

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 Seo District (), or " Western District," is the name of a ''gu'' in several South Korean cities: * Seo District, Busan * Seo District, Daegu * Seo District, Daejeon * Seo District, Gwangju * Seo District, Incheon Seo District () is the largest d ...

Daejeon Daejeon (; ) is South Korea's list of cities in South Korea, fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of nearly 1.5 million. Located in a central lowland valley between the Sobaek Mountains and the Geum River, the city is known both as a ...

Shinsegae Shinsegae Inc. (, ) is a South Korean department store Franchising, 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 ...

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 () is one of the List of districts of Seoul, 25 districts that make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Its name was derived from the Dongjaegi Naruteo Ferry, on the Han River (Korea), Han River which borders the district to t ...

, Seoul Defunct: *

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

Sri Lanka

Currently trading: *

Barefoot Being 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 ...

* 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. ...

Taiwan

Currently trading

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

Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Shin Kong Mitsukoshi (SKM, ) is a Taiwanese brand of high-end department stores operating throughout Taiwan, with concessions also located in mainland China. The brand is a joint venture of the Taiwanese Shin Kong Group and Japanese Mitsukoshi. ...

Defunct

* Tokyu

Thailand

Currently trading: *

Central Retail Corporation Central Group is a Thai multinational conglomerate founded by Tiang and Samrit Chirathivat in 1947, and still privately owned by the Chirathivat family . Its publicly-traded subsidiaries include Central Retail, Central Pattana (commercial real ...

– group includes: ** Central **

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 19 ...

Daiso is a franchise of 100-yen shops founded in Japan. Its headquarters are in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Daiso has locations in 25 countries and regions worldwide. History Daiso was originally opened as a street vending shop with ...

Grand *

Diana Diana most commonly refers to: * Diana (name), given name (including a list of people with the name) * Diana (mythology), ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals; later associated with the Moon * Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), ...

(

Hat Yai Hat Yai (, , also Haad Yai or Had Yai) is a city in southern Thailand near the Malaysian border and the List of municipalities in Thailand#Largest cities by urban population, fifth-largest city in Thailand with a population of 191,696 (2024) in ...

Songkhla Songkhla (, ), also known as Singgora or Singora (Kelantan-Pattani Malay, Pattani Malay: ซิงกอรอ, Singoro), is a city (''thesaban nakhon'') in Songkhla Province of southern Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. Songkhla lies ...

Pattani Pattani (or Patani in Malay spelling) may refer to: Places Continental Asia * Patani (historical region), a historical region in the Malay peninsula, in Thailand and Malaysia. * Pattani Province, modern province in southern Thailand ** Pattani, ...

) * The Erawan Group – group includes: ** Ploenchit Center (Sukhumvit) *

* Gaysorn Group – group includes: ** Amarin Plaza (

Ratchaprasong Ratchaprasong (, ; 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 Lom Station and the intersection ...

) – taken over from the Erawan Group **

Gaysorn Gaysorn Village (previously Gayphorn Plaza) is a building complex in the Ratchaprasong area of Bangkok. It also includes the Gaysorn Tower, an office tower block, and the Amarin Plaza shopping centre. The shopping mall building has five levels w ...

Plaza (

) *

The Mall Group The Mall Group () is one of Thailand’s largest retail conglomerates, known for its portfolio of shopping malls and department stores. Its brands include the Mall, Emporium (Bangkok), Emporium, EmQuartier, EmSphere, Emsphere, Siam Paragon, G ...

– group includes: ** Emporium (Sukhumvit) **

EmQuartier The EmQuartier is a large shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand opened in May 2015. The mall is connected to Phrom Phong BTS Station on the Sukhumvit Line of the BTS Skytrain. It is one of three malls in the “EM District”, along with Emporiu ...

(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 t ...

) *

Siam Piwat Siam Piwat is a Bangkok-based retail and development company. The company is best known for managing Siam Center, Siam Discovery, Siam Paragon, and Iconsiam shopping malls in Bangkok, Thailand. History Siam Piwat Company Limited was first estab ...

– group includes: **

Siam Center Siam Center () is a shopping center near Siam BTS station in Bangkok, Thailand. History Siam Center was built in 29 January 1973 as one of Bangkok's first shopping malls. It has undergone renovation several times, including after a fire in 1997. ...

( Khet Pathum Wan) **

Siam Discovery Siam Center () is a shopping center near Siam BTS station in Bangkok, Thailand. History Siam Center was built in 29 January 1973 as one of Bangkok's first shopping malls. It has undergone renovation several times, including after a fire in 1997 ...

( Khet Pathum Wan) *

Tesco Lotus Lotus's (formerly known as Lotus Supercenter, Tesco Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus) is a retail chain in Thailand founded and operated by Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, with operations in Malaysia following the acquisition of Tesco Malaysia i ...

Department Store * Topland Group (

Phitsanulok Phitsanulok (, ) is a city municipality in northern Thailand and the capital of Phitsanulok province. It had a city population of 60,827 and an urban population of approximately 200,000 in 2024, making it Thailand's 19th-most populous city p ...

) – group includes: ** Topland Arcade ** Topland Plaza 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 and ...

* JUSCO – closed department store section and changed supermarket name section to

Maxvalu Tokai MaxValu (マックスバリュ) is a Japanese supermarket chain owned by the Aeon (company), Aeon Group. It is operated by multiple regional subsidiaries in Japan and abroad. () was formerly known as Yaohan until 2000, when it was renamed followin ...

* Tokyu *

United Arab Emirates

Currently trading: *

Bloomingdale's Bloomingdale's Inc. is an American luxury department store chain founded in 1861 by Joseph Bloomingdale and Lyman Bloomingdale. It was acquired by Federated Department Stores in 1930, which purchased the Macy's department store chain in 1994, ...

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The Dubai Mall Dubai Mall () is the largest shopping mall in Dubai. The mall is part of Downtown Dubai and is located adjacent to the Burj Khalifa. It includes over 1,200 shops. History Dubai Mall was inaugurated on 4 November 2008, with about 1000 reta ...

) *

(

) *

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Mall of the Emirates Mall of the Emirates () is a shopping mall in Dubai. Developed and owned by Majid Al Futtaim Group, it opened in November 2005 and is located at interchange four on Sheikh Zayed Road. The multi-level shopping mall currently features more than 630 ...

) * LuLu Hypermarkets, Supermarkets & Department Stores *

Defunct: * BHV (2017–2019) *

(2004–2016) *

House of Fraser House of Fraser (rebranding to Frasers) is a British department store chain with 23 locations across the United Kingdom and 2 in Ireland, part of Frasers Group. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it ...

(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 ...

Europe

Albania

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– part of Gruppo Coin (

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

) * OVS – part of Gruppo Coin (

)

Austria

Currently trading: *

Kastner & Öhler Kastner & Öhler is an Austrian chain of department stores, based in Graz, Styria, Austria, and mainly active in southern Austria. The family-run company dates back to a shop founded in 1873 by Karl Kastner and Herman Öhler. They were the first ...

Defunct

Azerbaijan

Defunct: * Barkers *

Belgium

Galeria Inno INNOvative Retail BV, (commonly referred to as Inno, and formerly known as Galeria Inno) is an upmarket Belgian department store chain that operations sixteen branches around Belgium. History In May 1897, ''A l'Innovation'' opened in Brussels. ...

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

Bulgaria

TZUM Tzum (, ) is a village in Waadhoeke municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 1,110 in 2023. Tzum is known for its 72 metre tall church tower. Etymology The origin of the name ''Tzum'', which used ...

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

Czech Republic

* Bílá Labuť * Desirred * Kotva *

Cyprus

– operated by Ermes Department Stores Ltd *

Denmark

Currently trading: * Illum (

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

) *

Magasin du Nord Magasin is a Denmark, Danish chain of department stores. It has seven department stores with its flagship store located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The company is a subsidiary of the German department store retailer Peek & Cloppenburg, Peek & ...

(Copenhagen,

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish language, 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 stre ...

Field's Field's is a shopping centre in Ørestad, Copenhagen, close to the E20 motorway and Ørestad Station on the Copenhagen Metro. At 115,000 m2, it is the second-largest mall in Denmark after Waves, and one of the largest in Scandinavia. It is o ...

Rødovre Rødovre () is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Capital Region of Denmark, 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 ...

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

Odense Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (after Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2025, the city proper had a population of 185,480 while Odense Municipality had a population of 210, ...

and

Aalborg Aalborg or Ålborg ( , , ) is Denmark's List of cities and towns in Denmark, fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an Urban area, urban populati ...

) *

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 penin ...

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

Estonia

Currently trading: *

Stockmann Stockmann plc is a Finnish retailer established in 1862. Stockmann's eight company-owned department stores are in Finland (six), Estonia (one), and Latvia (one). There also were an additional nine Stockmann-branded department stores in Russia ...

Defunct: * Anttila *

Finland

Currently trading: *

Sokos Sokos is a chain of department stores in Finland that is part of the S Group, which also operates the hotel chain, Sokos Hotels. Department stores * Helsinki (centre) * Helsinki ( Kaari) * Hämeenlinna * Joensuu * Jyväskylä * Kajaani * ...

Defunct: * Anttila * Pukeva

France

* Le BHV Marais *

Le Bon Marché 240px, Interior ( "the good market", or "the good deal" in French; ) is a department store in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first ...

* Le Samaritaine *

Defunct: *

Prisunic Prisunic (Société Française des Magasins à Prix Uniques) was a French variety store chain that closed in 2003. Its stores were generally located in downtown areas. Over their existence they also operated stores in Andorra, Greece and the Fre ...

– 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 The Alsterhaus is a five-story department store at Jungfernstieg 16–20 in Hamburg that opened in 1912. From 1994 to 2014 it was a branch of the department store group Karstadt (as part of ''Karstadt Premium GmbH''), after which it was made a ...

* Breuninger * Galeria *

Hema Hema may refer to: * Hemā (mythology), a figure from Polynesian mythology * HEMA (store), a Dutch chain of stores * Hema (supermarket) (盒马), a supermarket chain in China * Hema maps, an Australian map publisher * Hema people, an ethnic grou ...

KaDeWe The , abbreviated to KaDeWe, is a Thai owned department store in Berlin, Germany. With over of retail space and more than 380,000 articles available, it is the second-largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London. It attracts 40,000 ...

* Ludwig Beck *

Oberpollinger The Oberpollinger is a well-known upscale department store on Neuhauser Straße in Munich. It is run by ''KaDeWe Group GmbH'' (formerly Karstadt Premium GmbH) and is the largest department store in Southern Germany. The building was built ...

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

Karstadt Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH was a German department store chain whose headquarters were in Essen. Until 30 September 2010 the company was a subsidiary of Arcandor, Arcandor AG (which was known until 30 June 2007 as KarstadtQuelle AG) and was respo ...

– merged with Kaufhof *

Galeria Kaufhof Galeria Kaufhof GmbH was a German department store chain, headquartered in Cologne. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1930 to 2010, with various CEOs acting as presidents of the Association over time. Un ...

Mitsukoshi is an international Department stores in Japan, department store chain with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Its holding company, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings, is a member of the Mitsui, Mitsui Group. History It was founded in 1673 with the (sho ...

– 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 Cosmetics are substances that are intended for application to the body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering appearance. They are mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either Natural product, natural source ...

* Notos Galleries

Hungary

Currently trading: * Corvin * Skala

Defunct

Iceland

Hagkaup Hagkaup () is an Icelandic hypermarket chain owned by retail company Hagar. Its concept is wide selection of food and non-food products including clothing, electronics, entertainment, seasonal goods and toys. History Founded in 1959 by Pálmi ...

Iran

Currently trading: *

(Tehran) * Rosha (

Tajrish Tajrish (, ) is a neighbourhood of Tehran, capital of Iran. Administratively it is in Shemiranat County, Tehran province and serves as the capital of the county. At one time a village, it was later absorbed into the city of Tehran. The Tajri ...

, Tehran) * Utopia (Tajrish, Tehran) Defunct: * Iran Department Store (

Pahlavi Street Pahlavi may refer to: Iranian royalty *Seven Parthian clans, ruling Parthian families during the Sasanian Empire *Pahlavi dynasty, the ruling house of Imperial State of Persia/Iran from 1925 until 1979 ** Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), Shah of ...

, Tehran) * Kourosh / کوروش (Largest Iranian chain, closed following 1979 Revolution)

Ireland

Currently trading: *

Arnotts Arnotts can refer to; * Arnott's Group, an Australian biscuit and salted snack food company * Arnotts (Ireland), a department store in Dublin, Ireland * Arnotts (Scotland) Arnotts was a department store in Glasgow, Scotland. It became part of ...

Brown Thomas Brown Thomas & Company Limited is a chain of five upmarket department stores in Ireland, with two located in Dublin, and one each in Cork, Galway, and Limerick. Together with Dublin's Arnotts department store, it is owned by the Selfridges G ...

* BT2 – subsidiary of Brown Thomas *

Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores is an Irish multinational retail chain that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. It was founded by Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908), Ben Dunne in 1944. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain al ...

Defunct: *

Clerys Clerys was a long-established department store on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland, a focal point of the street. The business dates from 1853, however the current building dates from 1922, the original having been completely destroyed in the 1916 ...

– 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 ...

Roches Stores Roches Stores was a national chain of department stores in Ireland, that was owned by the Roche family. Roches Stores was founded in Cork in 1901 by William Roche, the son of a farmer from north County Cork, who had worked in Cash's in Cork ci ...

– acquired by Debenhams Foreign-Operated: *

Italy

* Aumai - Chinese department store *

– part of Gruppo Coin * Coin Excelsior – part of Gruppo Coin * OVS – part of Gruppo Coin * Rinascente – part of

Central Group Central Group is a Thai multinational conglomerate founded by Tiang and Samrit Chirathivat in 1947, and still privately owned by the Chirathivat family . Its publicly-traded subsidiaries include Central Retail, Central Pattana (commercial re ...

(

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

) * The Oriental Mall - Chinese department store in Milan * UPIM – part of Gruppo Coin Defunct: *

Gamma Gamma (; uppercase , lowercase ; ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter normally repr ...

– acquired by Standa in 1973 *

– acquired by Rinascente in 1977 * Mas – department store in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

, 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 Ar ...

– acquired by Gruppo Coin in 1998

Latvia

* Elkor * Maxima *

Rimi RIMI was a grocery store chain in Norway. The discount supermarket is best known for its slogan, "Consistently low prices" (''Faste lave priser''). The supermarket business can trace itself back to 1977. It was founded as the discount grocery st ...

Lithuania

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

Luxembourg

Currently trading: *

Defunct: * Monopol – sold its assets

Netherlands

Currently trading: * Berden – department store in Heerlen *

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, owner also of Britain's Selfridges and Ireland's Bro ...

HEMA Hema may refer to: * Hemā (mythology), a figure from Polynesian mythology * HEMA (store), a Dutch chain of stores * Hema (supermarket) (盒马), a supermarket chain in China * Hema maps, an Australian map publisher * Hema people, an ethnic grou ...

Defunct: * Maison de Bonneterie – operating from 1889 to 2014 * Metz & Co – operating from 1740 to 2013 *

Schunck Schunck () is the name of former fashion house and department store ''Firma Schunck'' in Heerlen, the Netherlands. It is also the name for the collection of buildings the firm has been housed in, one of which is known as the Glaspaleis (''Gla ...

– operating from 1874 to 1995 *

Vroom & Dreesmann Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) was a Dutch chain of department stores founded in 1887. In 2015, V&D operated 67 branches throughout the Netherlands, of which 64 department stores and 3 standalone locations of La Place (restaurant chain), La Place, ...

– operating from 1887 to 2016 * Hudson's Bay – operating from 2017 to 2019

Norway

* Christiania Glasmagasin * Illum * Eger *

* Paleet *

Steen & Strøm Steen & Strøm is a Scandinavian retail and real estate company that owns and operates 10 shopping centres in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1940 to 1992, with various ...

* OXHOLM

Poland

* CDT 'Smyk' * Jabłkowski Brothers

Portugal

Currently trading: *

El Corte Inglés El Corte Inglés S.A. is a Spanish department store chain founded in 1940 by Ramón Areces and César Rodríguez. It is the last such remaining in Spain and Portugal, and has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores s ...

(

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

and

Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...

) – leading Spanish department store * Marques Soares (

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

and branches) Defunct: * Grandella (

) * Grandes Armazens do Chiado (

and branches) *

Romania

Currently trading: *

Defunct: *

Russia

Currently trading: * Gostiny Dvor – established 1785 * GUM *

* Moscow *

The Passage Passage, The Passage or Le Passage may refer to: Arts and entertainment Films * ''Passage'' (2008 film), a documentary about Arctic explorers * ''Passage'' (2009 film), a short movie about three sisters * Passage (2020 film), a Canadian docume ...

– established 1848 *

Petrovsky Passage Petrovsky Passage () is an elite department store opened on Petrovka Street in downtown Moscow in 1906. The engineer Vladimir Shukhov, also responsible for the GUM and the Shabolovka tower, designed a covered arcade with two wide three-storey ...

– established 1906 * TsUM *

TAKE AWAY A take-out (US, Canada, Philippines) or takeaway (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) is a prepared meal or other food items purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take ...

- opened 1989 Defunct: *

Serbia

Currently trading: *

– part of Gruppo Coin (

) *

Robne kuće Beograd Robne kuće Beograd ( sr-cyr, Робне куће Београд; Anglicized: Department Stores Belgrade) is a chain of department stores across Serbia, with headquarters in Belgrade. History Robne kuće Beograd company was founded in 1965 and so ...

Defunct: *

Slovakia

Defunct: *

Slovenia

* E. Leclerc * Interspar *

Mercator __NOTOC__ Mercator (Latin for "merchant") often refers to the Mercator projection, a cartographic projection named after its inventor, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator may refer to: People * Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastica ...

* Tuš

Spain

Currently trading: *

– leading Spanish department store chain *

(

Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...

) * Galerías Aitana (

Calp Calpe (; ) is a coastal municipality located in the ''comarca'' of Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of and a population density of . The city lies at the foot of the ...

e) * Galerías Primero (

Zaragoza Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...

) * Bide Onera (

Barakaldo Barakaldo (; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country in Spain. Located on the Left Bank (Biscay), Left Bank of the Estuary of Bilbao, the city is pa ...

) Defunct: * Almacenes Al Pelayo (

Oviedo Oviedo () or Uviéu (Asturian language, Asturian: ) is the capital city of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain and the administrative and commercial centre of the region. It is also the name of the municipality that contains th ...

) * Almacenes Arias – closed in 1997 * Almacenes Botas (Oviedo and

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality by population in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coa ...

) * Almacenes Madrid-París * Almacenes Simeón – closed in 1987 * Galerías Preciados – taken over by El Corte Inglés in 1996 *

– closed in 1996 *

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

Sweden

Currently trading: *

Åhléns Åhléns () is a chain of Swedish department stores. With locations in almost every city in the country, including 18 in Stockholm alone , it is the fourth largest group of fashion stores in Sweden. History Åhléns began as a mail order bu ...

(

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

) *

Gekås Gekås Ullared AB is a Swedish superstore in Ullared, Sweden, founded in 1963 by Göran Karlsson (businessman), Göran Karlsson as ''Ge-kås Manufaktur''. It had an annual turnover of Swedish kronor, SEK 4.2 billion in 2010, with a total store a ...

(Ullared) *

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

(

and

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

) Defunct: *

– closed in 2007 *

PUB A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private ho ...

(

) – closed in 2014

Switzerland

* Coop City *

Globus GLOBUS is a radar system in the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is operated by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) and its official uses are primarily space observation and Arctic airspace monitoring for Nor ...

–

Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

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

Jelmoli Jelmoli (officially Jelmoli Ltd.) is a Swiss department store founded in 1833 by Johann Peter Jelmoli in Zürich, Switzerland. It was the oldest and largest of its kind in Switzerland. After its 190th anniversary the store will be officially clo ...

– one flagship store located in

* Loeb (Swiss department store) (

Bern Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...

and branches) – Biel, Thun and Schönbühl * Manor (

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

and branches) – used to operate under different brands like Nordmann, Vilan, Rheinbrücke, Placette and Innovazione *

Migros Migros () is Switzerland's largest retail company, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It is also one of the forty largest retailers in the world. It is structured in the form of a cooperative federation (the Federation of Migros ...

– the largest supermarket chain, but acting as a department store in different shopping centers Defunct: *

ABM (Au Bon Marché) ABM or Abm may refer to: Aviation * Air Battle Manager, US Air Force rated officer position * IATA airport code for Northern Peninsula Airport in Bamaga, State of Queensland, Australia Companies * ABM Industries, a US facility management provid ...

– 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

Turkey

Beymen Beymen is a chain of luxury department stores in Istanbul, Turkey, part of the Beymen Group owned by the Qatari investment fund Mayhoola for Investments. Fodor's has compared the chain to Bloomingdale's in the United States, while London's ''Ev ...

– luxury shopping * Boyner *

Vakko Vakko is a Turkish luxury fashion company founded by Vitali Hakko (d. 2007) survived by his son Cem Hakko. It produces and retails textiles, leather goods, and accessories. Vakko also operates luxury department stores under the Vakko name at ...

– luxury shopping *

Özdilek Özdilek is the name of chains of hypermarkets, department stores, and home textile stores, together with ÖzdilekPark shopping malls, all part of Özdilek Holding. The holding company's main activities are in the retail sector where it started ...

Defunct: *

– operating from 2006 to 2021 *

– operating from 2006 to 2017 *

– operating from 2017 to 2021 * YKM – operated from 1950 until being acquired by Boyner in 2012 *

Galleria Ataköy Galleria Ataköy, the first modern shopping mall in Turkey, is situated in the western suburb of Ataköy, Bakırköy, Ataköy, Istanbul. It was built following the recommendation of then List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, Prime Minister Turgut Ö ...

– operating from 1988 to 1998https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/galleria-dertli-39050475

United Kingdom

;Major department stores currently trading *

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

Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upmarket department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Self ...

Liberty Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...

* Fenwick *

TK Maxx TK Maxx is a discount clothing and homewares retailer, founded in 1994. It is currently based in Watford, England. It is owned by American retailer TJ Maxx, who could not trade under the initials "TJ" in the United Kingdom due to the British d ...

Oceania

Australia

Department stores: * David Jones *

Harris Scarfe Harris Scarfe is an Australian retailer that sells bed linen, kitchenware, homewares, electrical appliances and apparel. It was founded in 1849 in Adelaide, South Australia and has more than 50 stores nationally. In 2015, ownership of Harris Sc ...

* Harrolds *

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

Discount department stores: *

Best & Less Best & Less is an Australian retailer of clothing and household linens. As of October 2022, Best & Less has 182 stores as well as an online platform. History Best & Less was founded by Berel Ginges in January 1965, by occupying part of the grou ...

Big W Big W (stylised as BIG W) is an Australian chain of discount department stores, which was founded in regional New South Wales in 1964. The company is a division of the Woolworths Group and as of 2024 operated 179 stores, with around 18,000 emp ...

* Dimmeys *

Kmart Australia Kmart Australia Limited ( , doing business as Kmart, Kmart Australia, Kmart New Zealand and Kmart Australia and New Zealand and stylised as ''Kmart'') is an Australian chain of retail department stores owned by the Kmart Group division of Wesfar ...

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 ...

Defunct: *

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 ...

* Ball & Welch *

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, Perth, Wellington Street and Murray Street, Perth, Murray Stre ...

Bolands Bolans is a community on the south-western end of the island of Antigua, headtown of the Saint Mary Parish, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Mary's Parish. It was once an agrarian community but has slowly been transformed into a centre of tourist activ ...

* 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 ...

* Charles Birks & Company * Charles Davis * Charles Moore & Company * Cribb & Foote *

FitzGerald's FitzGerald's was Tasmania's largest chain of department stores. The chain was rebranded and relaunched as Harris Scarfe in 1995, and the renamed stores continue to trade today. History FitzGerald's was founded in March 1886, when George Park ...

Fosseys 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 ...

Foy & Gibson Foy & Gibson, also known as Foy's and later Cox-Foys, was one of Australia's largest and earliest department store chains. A large range of goods were manufactured and sold by the company including clothing, manchester, leather goods, soft fur ...

* Georges * Gowings *

Grace Bros Grace Bros was an Australian department store chain, founded in 1885. It was bought by Myer (later Coles Myer) in 1983. There were 25 stores across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory plus a few in Victoria, until they wer ...

– now Myer * HA & W Goode * James Marshall & Company *

JB Young's J.B. Young Ltd (JB Young's) were a chain of retail department stores, founded in the New South Wales country town of Queanbeyan, by businessman and country traveler James Buchanan Young in 1914. Young, originally from Ireland, had migrated to Au ...

John Martin's John Martin & Co. Ltd, colloquially known as John Martin's or simply Johnnies, was an Adelaide-based company which ran a popular chain of department stores in South Australia. It operated for more than 130 years, from 1866 until its closure i ...

* Marcus Clark & Company *

Mark Foy's Mark Foy's Limited or Mark Foy's was a department store in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, founded by Francis Foy and his brother Mark Foy. The department store was named after their father, Mark Foy (senior), and traded between 1885 and ...

* McWhirters *

Trade Secret A trade secret is a form of intellectual property (IP) comprising confidential information that is not generally known or readily ascertainable, derives economic value from its secrecy, and is protected by reasonable efforts to maintain its conf ...

- rebranded to TK Maxx *

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 Zealand

Department Stores: * Ballantynes (

Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...

Timaru Timaru (; ) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to peo ...

and

Invercargill Invercargill ( , ) is the southernmost and westernmost list of cities in New Zealand, city in New Zealand, and one of the Southernmost settlements, southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland Region, Southlan ...

) * David Jones (

Auckland Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and ...

) *

Farmers A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mi ...

- nationally trading * Smith & Caughey's (Auckland) Discount department stores: *

The Warehouse A warehouse is a storage facility. Warehouse or The Warehouse may also refer to: Buildings and places Canada * The Warehouse (Toronto), a defunct nightclub in Toronto, Ontario * The Warehouse Studio, a recording facility and photography studio i ...

Defunct: * Arthur Barnett – operating from 1903 to 2015 *

DIC DIC may refer to: Biology and chemistry * Diisopropylcarbodiimide ''N'','-Diisopropylcarbodiimide is a carbodiimide used in peptide synthesis. As a liquid, it is easier to handle than the commonly used Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, ''N'','-dicyclo ...

– operating from 1884 to 1991 * DEKA – operating from 1988 to 2001 *

Haywrights Haywrights was a New Zealand department store chain that was founded in 1929 and eventually grew to be one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. History The store opened on 13 December 1929 as Hay's. It was founded by business ...

– operating from 1929 to 1982 * H & J Smith – operating from 1900 to 2023 * Kirkcaldie & Stains – operating from 1863 to 2016 *

Milne & Choyce Milne & Choyce was one of the first department stores in Auckland, New Zealand. The upmarket department store grew from a draper's and milliner's first acquired by Mary Jane and Charlotte Milne in 1867. In 1874 the store moved to larger pr ...

– operating from 1867 to 1992

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