List of department stores

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

Australia

Anthony Hordern's. Closed in late 1960s.
Daimaru. Withdrew from Australia in mid-2002.
David Jones.
Farmers. New Zealand-owned, since withdrawn from Australia.
Mark Foy's. Closed in 1980.
Myer. Operated by Coles Myer group.
Grace Bros. Bought by Coles Myer in 1983, merged into Myer in 2004.
K-mart. Operated by Coles Myer.
Big W.
Target. Operated by Coles Myer.

Brazil

C&A
Lojas Americanas - a.k.a. "Americanas (http://www.americanas.com.br)"
Wal-Mart

Canada

Current

Canadian Tire
Giant Tiger
Holt Renfrew
Home Outfitters - kitchen, bed, and bath store owned by Hudson's Bay Company
Hart Stores - eastern Canada
Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay"
La Maison Simons
Les Ailes de la Mode - Quebec-based chain
Ogilvy's (La Maison Ogilvy)
Sears Canada (formerly Simpsons-Sears)
Wal-Mart
Zellers - discount department store owned by Hudson's Bay Company

Historical

Andrew's
Bretton's - high end department store 1985-1996
Consumers Distributing - catalogue store 1957-1996
Creed's- founded 1916, defunct 1991, high-end family-owned retailer
Dupuis Freres
Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada
Horizon - discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967-1978
Eatons - unit of Sears Canada 2000-2002
Kmart - discount department store, usually in the suburbs, craeted by S.S. Kresge - sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997
Marks and Spencer - closed Canadian stores in 1999
Miracle Mart - discount department store operated by Steinberg's, defunct 1986
Morgan's - merged with Hudson's Bay Company
Robinson's - Ottawa-area chain, merged with Hudson's Bay Company 1990s
Sayvette - discount department store, defunct 1970s
Shop-Rite - catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company in 1970s-1992
Simpson's - merged with the Hudson's Bay Company
Simpsons-Sears Limited
S.S. Kresge - smaller, downtown locations
Spencer's - Western Canada, bought by Eaton's
Towers Department Stores/BoniMart - sold out to Zellers in 1990
Woodwards - Western Canada, 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)

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

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

Hong Kong

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

Indonesia

Ireland

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

Japan

Netherlands

Bijenkorf (part of Vendex KBB)
Hema (ditto)
Vroom & Dreesmann (ditto)

Philippines

Robinsons Department Store [1] (http://www.rds.com.ph/)

Puerto Rico

Saudi Arabia

Al Hamada

Singapore

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

South Korea

Spain

El Corte Inglés

Sweden

Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm and Gothenburg
Åhléns, Stockholm

Switzerland

Jelmoli, Zürich
Globus, Zürich

United Kingdom

Allders, group included
- Arding & Hobbs (Clapham Junction)
Beale's
Bentalls
David Morgan (Cardiff)
Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
Dingles Plymouth
Fenwicks
Harrods
Harvey Nichols
House of Fraser group, includes
- Army & Navy
- Barkers
- Cavendish House (Cheltenham)
- D.H.Evans
James Howells (Cardiff)
Jarrolds (Norwich)
Jenners (Edinburgh)
Jollys
John Lewis Partnership group includes
- Jessops (Nottingham) Bought in 1933 but held original name until 2002
- Peter Jones (London)
- Robert Sayle (Cambridge)
Liberty
Marks & Spencer
Ricemans (Canterbury)
T.J. Hughes
Selfridges
Sogo

United States of America

Ann & Hope, a now defunct retailer that pioneered the modern deparment store.
Barneys New York, fabled New York City luxury retailer, catering to cosmopolitan elite. Acquired in 2004 by Jones Apparel Group
Belk America's largest privately-held department store.
Big Lots!, national. Caters to lower class. Former names were Pic N' Save in the West and McFrugal's on the East Coast.
Bi-Mart, almost exclusively in Washington and Oregon.
Bon-Ton, Northeast
BJ's Wholesale (eastern US), similar to Sam's Club
Dillard's, National [2] (http://www.shareholder.com/dillards/history.cfm)
- D.H. Holmes (New Orleans)
- Maison Blanche (South-east), stores are now Dillard's
- Mercantile Stores (Cincinnati)
- Stix, Baer, Fuller

Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

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

Fred Meyer, a hypermarket in the Pacific Northwest owned by Kroger, the supermarket conglomerate

Gottschalk's Fresno middle class retailer; primarily in California [3] (http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml?COID=10670)

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

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

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

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

Meijer, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky

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

Pamida

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

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

Spiegel, mostly a catalog company

ShopKo, regional, West/Midwest

Stage Stores, Inc.
- Bealls (Texas and New Mexico)
- Palais Royal (Houston area)
- Peebles (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest)
- Stage (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri)

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

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

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

Defunct U.S. chains not acquired by extant chains or liquidated

Alexander's (New York metropolitan area). Declared bankruptcy in 1992.
Ames.
B. Altman and Company (New York City).
The Broadway (Southern California). Headquartered in Los Angeles. Part of defunct Carter Hawley Hale Stores. Retailer for many decades; finally closed for good in 1991.
Bradlees.
Bonwitt Teller (New York City and metropolitan area). High end clothier that was primarily a women's clothing store; however, in later years it had a small men's department. Closed in the early 1990's soon after being purchased by the Australian company L.J. Hooker Company. Interestingly, to this day they retain the rights to the name should they ever decide to reintroduce the marque.
Caldor.
The Denver Dry Goods Company (Denver). Merged with May D&F in 1987. May D&F, in turn, was merged with Foley's in 1993.
Fedco (Southern California). Membership-based department store—including grocery, and in some locations, furniture—that served middle class. Went bankrupt. Circa 1950-1994.
Fedmart (Southern California) First mass-market discount retail/grocery chain Sol Price founded. Was headquartered in San Diego in the 92111 ZIP Code. Price voluntarily closed the chain. Price later founded Price Club based upon what he learned from his Fedmart days. Price Club has since been merged into Costco. Circa 1965-75.
Gemco (California) Membership department store with grocery. Operated as subsidiary of Lucky Stores until liquidated in early 1987 due to hostile takeover attempts. Lucky was later acquired into what is now called Albertsons. Circa 1968-1987.
Hills Department Store.
Hochschild Kohn's (Baltimore).
Hutzler's (Baltimore).
Krauss (New Orleans).
S. H. Kress & Co..
McCrory (national).
Montgomery Ward. First mail order store.
Ohrbach's. Liquidated in 1987 and acquired by Howland-Steinbach.
Rink's (Ohio).
Sanger-Harris (Dallas). Stores were merged by Federated Department Stores into Foley's in 1987, which was in turn sold to May in 1988.
Stewart's (Baltimore).
Woodward and Lothrop (Washington, DC). Stores were acquired by The Hecht Company (Hecht's) and rebranded.
Woolworth (national). Classic dime store.
W. T. Grant (national). Stores called Grant's or (the larger stores) Grant City.
Zayre.
Zody's (national) Catered to lower class.