DATE OF ** ORIGINAL ** INSERT PHOTO / COVER / PRINT: 1927 CITY / TOWN-STATE: DETAILS: LONDON GELOT'S PARIS KILGOUR FRENCH ALAN MCAFEE HAWES AND CURTTIS SCOTT AND COMPANY
Saks Fifth Avenue
(originally Saks & Company
;
colloquially Saks
) is an American
luxury
department store
chain headquartered in
New York City
and founded by
Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the
F Street shopping district
of
Washington, D.C.
in 1867. Saks expanded into
Manhattan
with its
Herald Square
store in 1902 and
flagship store
on
Fifth Avenue
in 1924. The chain was acquired by Tennessee-based Proffitt's, Inc. (renamed
Saks, Inc.) in 1998, and Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Canadian-based
Hudson's Bay Company
(HBC) in 2013. [5] [6]
Subsidiary
Saks Off 5th, originally a clearance store for Saks Fifth Avenue, is now a large
off-price retailer
in its own right managed independently from Saks Fifth Avenue under HBC. [7] [8]
History [ edit ]
Early history [ edit ]
Andrew Saks
was born to a
German Jewish
family, in
Baltimore,
Maryland. He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington, D.C. where at the age of only 20, and in the still-chaotic and tough economic times of 1867, only two years after the United States prevailed in the
American Civil War, he established a men's clothing store [9]
with his brother Isadore. [10] [11] A. Saks & Co.
occupied a storefront in the Avenue House Hotel building at 517 (300-308) 7th Street, N.W., in what is still
Washington's downtown shopping district. Saks offered his goods at one price only, no bargaining, and offered refunds on merchandise returns, neither of which were the more common practice at that place and time. [ citation needed ]
Saks was also known for its "forceful and interesting, but strictly truthful" newspaper advertising, according to the Washington Evening Star
, including a two-page spread, large for that time, in that newspaper on April 4, 1898. Saks annexed the store next door, and in 1887 started building a large new store on the site of the old Avenue Hotel Building at 7th and Market Space (now
United States Navy Memorial Plaza). [12]
In 1896 Saks opened a branch store in
Indianapolis
in Ingall's Block, which was a success. then they expanded to
Norfolk, Virginia, and by 1897 had six stores: Washington, D.C.,
Richmond, Virginia,
Norfolk, Virginia, Indianapolis, and two stores as well as a clothing factory in
New York City. Saks called itself "Washington's Wonderful Store". [13]
ARTIST: Georges Darcy (French, born 1883)
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