List of department stores

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This is a list of department stores. 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.

  • Garbarino
  • Frávega
  • HAVANNA

  • Harvey Norman. Mainly selling electrical appliance and furniture. The top furniture retailer in Australia. Listed in stock market.
  • David Jones. Luxury retailer, stocks merchandise from Homewares to Fashion. One of the world's oldest department store still trading in original name.

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also operates Target Country, which took over now-defunct Fosseys. Target Country in areas with smaller population and is a scaled down version of standard Target.

  • Venture - Discount Department store - Opened in 1970. Went bankrupt in 1992.
  • Super K-Mart Store concept and culture did not work. From mid-80s to 1991.

  • Gerngross
  • Kastner & Öhler

  • Galeria Inno, formerly "Innovation"

  • Casa & Video
  • Lojas Riachuelo
  • C&A
  • Lojas Americanas
  • Renner
  • Wal-Mart

  • Army and Navy Stores
  • Dollarama / Rossy - dollar store in eastern Canada
  • Fields - discount chain in British Columbia and Alberta (owned by Hudson's Bay Company)
  • Giant Tiger / Tigre Géant - discount stores
  • Holt Renfrew - upscale chain
  • Hart Stores - Eastern Canada discount chain
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • LALIBERTÉ - on St-Joseph street in Quebec City
  • La Maison Simons - Quebec city based fashion clothing chain
  • Les Ailes de la Mode - Quebec-based clothing retailer
  • North West Company - retail, primarily northern and smaller towns
  • Ogilvy (Montreal) - also known as La Maison Ogilvy, as distinguished from the defunct Ogilvy's in Ottawa (see below)
  • Piper's - St. John's, Nfld. discount variety store chain
  • Riff's - Newfoundland department store chain
  • SAAN - discount stores
  • Sears Canada (formerly Simpsons-Sears)
  • Stedmans V&S - discount stores
  • The Bargain! Shop - discount stores (formerly the Canadian stores of F. W. Woolworth Company)
  • Wal-Mart Canada - US-based international discount store
  • Winners - department store
  • Zellers - discount department store owned by Hudson's Bay Company
  • London Drugs - pharmacy, automotive, electronics, clothing, food, book store, health store in Western Canada
  • Canadian Tire Corporation - auto repair garage, hardware, home renovations, sports, garden centre, electronics, auto parts, furniture, food, housewares, towels, franchised stores with independent owners
  • Real Canadian Superstore/Real Canadian Wholesale Club - food, hardware, office supplies, clothing, furniture, electronics, divisions of Loblaws Inc. (joint venture: Presidents Choice Financial with CIBC Bank) also owns PC brand of cell phones, foods, various consumer goods
  • Home Outfitters - home, kitchen, bath specialty retailer, division of Hudson's Bay Company
  • XS Cargo - discount retailer chain dealing in clearence items
  • A&B Sound - music, electronics retailer chain in Western Canada, similar to Future Shop

  • Andrew's
  • The Arcade - St. John's, Nfld. - based discount variety store chain (1938-1995)
  • Ayre and Sons - Newfoundland - based department store chain. Once operated as many as 80 stores coast-to-coast (1859-1991)
  • Bargain Harold's - A 135 location Discount store chain based in Ontario with locations in Ontario, Manitoba and the Maritimes went Bankrupt in 1992
  • Biway - Discount store based in Ontario, defunct 2001
  • The Bon Marché - independent discount variety store in St. John's, Nfld. (1919-1971)
  • Bowring - St. John's, Nfld. department store. Also national nome decor store chain.
  • Brettons - high end department store 1985-1996
  • Consumers Distributing - catalogue store 1957-1996
  • Creaghan's - New Brunswick department store chain
  • Creed's- founded 1916, defunct 1991, high-end family-owned retailer
  • Corvette
  • Dupuis Frères - Quebec-based chain, symbol of French-Canadian commerce & pride
  • Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada
  • Horizon - discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967-1978
  • Freimans - longtime Ottawa retailer, acquired by The Bay in 1972
  • Fortin - in downtown Trois-Rivières, Quebec; bought by Dupuis Frères.
  • Greenberg - merged with SAAN
  • Kmart Canada - discount department store, usually in the suburbs, created by S.S. Kresge - sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997
  • Letendre - on Saint Catherine Street East, Montreal; bought by CDS, then Eaton. The store closed after Eaton's expansion in the west. The building remains at the corner of Montcalm (NE).
  • The London, New York and Paris - St. John's, Nfld. department store chain (1916-1991)
  • Marks and Spencer - closed Canadian stores in 1999
  • Metropolitan - merged with SAAN
  • Miracle Mart - discount department store operated by Steinberg's, defunct 1996. Some stores acquired by Dominion Stores.
  • Morgan's - merged with Hudson's Bay Company
  • Murphy-Gamble - Ottawa store, acquired by Simpson's
  • Ogilvy's (Charles Ogilvy Limited) - Ottawa-area chain, merged with Robinson's in 1980s, defunct 1990s
  • La Compagnie Paquet - 6 stores in Quebec City area. Closed June 1981. Some stores acquired by The Bay.
  • Peoples - (1914-1995) discount store closed in the same time as its parent company Wise Stores.
  • Plazamart - on St-Hubert Street in Montreal
  • Pryce Jones - Calgary branch of United Kingdom mail-order company, opreated 1911 to 1916
  • Pollack in Quebec City area and Trois-Rivières - bankrupted in 1978
  • The Right House - Higher-end department stores, last store closed in the 90's
  • Robinson's - Southern Ontario chain, merged with Charles Ogilvy Limited in 1980s, acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 1990s
  • Royal Stores - Newfoundland department store chain (1895-1977)
  • Sayvette - discount department store, defunct 1970s
  • Shop-Rite - catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company in 1970s-1992
  • Simpson's - acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company
  • Simpsons-Sears Limited - renamed Sears Canada Inc.
  • S.S. Kresge - smaller, downtown locations
  • Le Syndicat de Québec acquired by La Compagnie Paquet in 1974
  • Spencer's - Western Canada, bought by Eaton's
  • Target - Newfoundland discount variety store chain (1981-1995) - never related to American company
  • Towers Department Stores/BoniMart - sold out to Zellers in 1990
  • Walker Department Store - Galt, Ontario
  • Wise Stores - Similar to Hart Stores
  • Wood Brothers - Halifax department store chain
  • Woodward's - Western Canada, defunct 1993. most stores converted to Zellers and The Bay.
  • Woodwynn - junior department store owned by Woodward's, defunct 1993
  • Woolco - discount department store, usually in the suburbs, acquired by Wal-Mart in 1994
  • Woolworth - closed Canadian stores in 1992, though some became Woolco (such as the Whitehorse outlet).
  • Young Canada - toys and children's clothes; around since at least the early 1960s

  • Kotva
  • Maj - Later became Sears than Tesco
  • Tesco

  • Falabella - the oldest department store in Chile.
  • Ripley
  • Johnson's
  • Almacenes Paris - belong to the Cencosud Group.
  • La Polar
  • Líder - discount department store, belong to the D&S Company.
  • Jumbo - discount department store, belong to the Cencosud Group.

  • J.C. Penney - 6 stores in Santiago area. Closed because of poor sellings in 1999.
  • Muricy's - 1 store in Las Condes area. Closed because of poor sellings in 1991.
  • Sears - closed because of an economical recession in 1988.

  • Ahrens - a department store in Marburg
  • Alsterhaus - a department store in Hamburg, belonging to the Karstadt group
  • C&A - not a department store, sells only clothes
  • Carsch Haus - a department store in Dusseldorf belonging to the Kaufhof group
  • Galeries Lafayette Berlin - Berlin branch of the French department store
  • KaDeWe - Located in Berlin part of Karstadt
  • Karstadt - The leading German department store group
  • Kaufhof / Galeria Kaufhof (daughter of the Metro group)
  • Müller - not really a department store, more a large chemists that sells several additional goods such as housewares, multi-media, toys
  • Wertheim - Karstadt runs two department stores in Berlin under this traditional name
  • Woolworth - German branch of the Woolworth group, meanwhile independent from the international Woolworth group, owned now by some German managers

  • Hertie (merged with Karstadt, one top range store left in Munich, all other stores were re-named into "Karstadt" or have been closed)
  • Horten (merged with Kaufhof) - all stores were re-named into "Kaufhof" or "Galeria Kaufhof" or have been closed[1]
  • Kaufhaus Schocken (merged with Horten and later Kaufhof)

Skala Corvin

  • Matahari
  • Ramayana
  • Sogo
  • Metro
  • Pasaraya
  • Debenhams (operated by PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk together with Sogo)
  • Galeria (Matahari Group)
  • Centro Lifestyle Department Stores

Hamashbir Latsarchan

  • Deka (defunct)
  • D.I.C. (department store) (defunct)
  • George Courts (department store) (defunct)
  • John Courts (department store) (defunct)

  • Felix B. Maduro
  • Steven's
  • Dorian's
  • Do it Center
  • Poll Mart
  • El Machetazo
  • El Titan
  • Saray
  • Sacks
  • Conway
  • Collin's
  • La Onda
  • Alli's
  • Via Vai
  • Dante

  • The Phase (Lahore)
  • Naheed (Karachi)
  • Imtiaz1 (Karachi)
  • Imtiaz2 (Karachi)
  • Aghaas (Karachi)
  • HKB (Lahore)
  • Pot Purri (Lahore)
  • 7th Avenue (Islamabad)

  • Saga Falabella
  • Ripley

  • Oechsle
    Broken up in the early 90s. It was the oldest department store in Peru.
  • Hogar
    Broken up in 1996.
  • Saga
    Sold to Falabella (Chile) and rebranded as Saga Falabella in 1995.
  • Sears
    Sold to and rebranded as Saga in the late 80s.

  • CSI Department Store, Dagupan, La Union, Baguio, Pangasinan, Candon
  • Fair Mart Department Store, Cubao, Cebu, Manila
  • Gaisano Department Store, Nationwide.
  • Isetann Department Store, Cubao, Manila
  • Landmark Department Store, Makati, Quezon City
  • PhilRegalo Department Store, Manila, Quezon City, Cebu, Rizal Provinces.
  • Plaza Fair Department Store, Cubao, Baguio, Cebu, Manila, Angono, Cagayan de Oro
  • Robinsons Department Store, Nationwide.
  • Rustan's Department Store, Makati, Alabang, Cubao, Mandaluyong City, Cebu, Manila
  • Crossings Department Store, Mandaluyong City, Quezon City
  • Shopwise Department Store, Libis QC, Makati, Alabang, Sucat, Cubao, Antipolo City.
  • SM Department Store, Nationwide.
  • Tiongsan Department Store, Baguio, La Trinidad

Defunct:

  • Gonzalez Padin
  • Bargain Town
  • Almacenes Velasco

  • Tesco (see also Czech Republic)

Former department store groups

  • Allders
  • J J Allen
  • Army & Navy Stores
  • Arnotts
  • Bairds
  • John Barker & Co
  • Bentalls
  • Binns
  • Bobbys
  • Brown Muffs
  • C & A Closed all UK stores in 2000.
  • Co-op (trading name used by a variety of co-operative societies for their department stores)
  • Chiesmans
  • E Dingle & Co
  • Harrods
  • Hides
  • Kennards
  • Lewis's
  • Littlewoods
  • Marshall & Snelgrove
  • Plummer Roddis
  • Mathias Robinson
  • Peter Robinson
  • Selfridge Provincial Stores
  • Sunwin House (trading name used by United Co-operatives)
  • United Drapery Stores

Stores which were not amalgamated into any of the businesses listed above but have now ceased trading

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