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| Selfridges | |
| Company type | Private limited company |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1908[1] |
| Founder | Harry Gordon Selfridge |
| Headquarters | 400 Oxford Street London, United Kingdom |
Number of locations | 4 (2024) |
Key people | Andrew Keith[2] (Managing Director) |
| Services | Department stores |
| Owners |
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| Parent | Central Group |
| Website | 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.[1] It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908.[1] The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London opened on 15 March 1909 and is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods).[3] Other Selfridges stores opened in the Manchester area at the Trafford Centre (1998) and at Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).
During the 1940s, smaller provincial Selfridges stores were sold to the John Lewis Partnership, and in 1951, the original Oxford Street store was acquired by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores.[4] Lewis's and Selfridges were then taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group, owned by Charles Clore.[5] Expanded under the Sears Group to include branches in Manchester and Birmingham,[6] the chain was acquired in 2003 by Canada's Galen Weston for £598 million.[7] In December 2021, the Weston family agreed to sell the majority of Selfridges Group for around £4 billion to a joint venture between Thai conglomerate Central Group and Austria's Signa Holding.[8][9] The acquisition was completed on 23 August 2022.[10] However, after Signa faced financial difficulties and declared bankruptcy, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) acquired Signa's shares in Selfridges, becoming a co-owner alongside the Central Group.
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- ^ "Selfridges names Andrew Keith as new managing director". Retail Gazette. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ "Our Heritage". Selfridges. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
- ^ "Lewis's". The Liverpool Wiki. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ^ Davenport-Hines, Richard (2004). "Clore, Sir Charles (1904–1979)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30943. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)subscription required
- ^ "Land Securities – Retail – Birmingham, Bull Ring". PropertyMall.com. 18 February 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "Selfridges UK expansion capped". BBC News. 28 October 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ White, Georgia (24 December 2021) Selfridges confirms sale to Central Group and Signa Holding, Retail Gazette. Retrieved: 29 December 2021.
- ^ "Selfridges sold for £4bn to Thai-Austrian alliance". BBC News. 24 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "Central Group acquires Selfridges". TTR Weekly. Retrieved 9 December 2022.