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Harrods
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Harrods is a luxury department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. The building was designed by C. W. Stephens for Charles Digby Harrod, and opened in 1905; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded by his father Charles Henry Harrod in 1849, which burned down in 1881. The store spans of selling space, making it the largest department store in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Harrods is one of the most famous department stores worldwide, attracting 15 million visitors annually . Its building was Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List in 1969.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Harrods
- Building.logo
- 180px|class=skin-invert
- Building.logo_size
- 180px
- Building.image
- Harrods (London).jpg
- Building.image_caption
- Exterior of Harrods (2007)
- Building.status
- Open
- Building.building_type
- Department store
- Building.architectural_style
- Victorian
- Building.location
- 87–135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, England, SW1X 7XL
- Building.namesake
- Charles Henry Harrod
- Building.years_built
- 1894–1905
- Building.opened_date
- 1905
- Building.client
- Charles Digby Harrod
- Building.owner
- Harrods Group (Qatar Investment Authority)
- Building.floor_area
- of selling space
- Building.architect
- C. W. Stephens
- Building.number_of_restaurants
- 22
- Historic site.embed
- yes
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Architecture
- Memorials
- Products and services
- Customers
- Customer dress code
- Royal warrants
- Ownership
- Criticism and controversy
- Staff issues
- Sexual abuse allegations
- Stocking issues
- Asma al-Assad
- Trademark litigation
- Incidents
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Harrods is a luxury department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. The building was designed by C. W. Stephens for Charles Digby Harrod, and opened in 1905; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded by his father Charles Henry Harrod in 1849, which burned down in 1881. The store spans of selling space, making it the largest department store in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Harrods is one of the most famous department stores worldwide, attracting 15 million visitors annually . Its building was Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List in 1969.
The original holding company, Harrod's Stores Limited, was formed and began trading on the London Stock Exchange in 1889. It was acquired by and merged into the House of Fraser in 1959, which itself was acquired by the Fayed brothers and became a privately held company in 1985. When the House of Fraser was relisted on the stock exchange, the Harrods business was split off to remain privately held in 1994. The present-day legal entity, the Harrods Group, was established by the Fayed brothers in 2006. It was sold to the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, in 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harrods” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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