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Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership of Selfridges led to his becoming one of the most respected and wealthy retail magnates in the United Kingdom.
Harry Gordon Selfridge (born Jan. 11, 1858, Ripon, Wis., U.S.—died May 8, 1947, London, Eng.) was the founder of Selfridges department store in London. The son of a small storekeeper in Wisconsin, Selfridge at age 21 joined the wholesale-retail firm of Field, Leiter and Company (later Marshall Field and Company) in Chicago, where he worked ...
- Second is First. Despite being second to Harrods in sales, Selfridges is the largest shop on Oxford Street with 650,000 feet of retail space. It has also been twice voted the World’s Best Department Store at the World Department Store Summit; once in June 2010 and again in May 2012.
- Women’s Lib. Harry Gordon Selfridge focused much of his attention on women from all social classes. His store was the first to have women’s toilets, permitting them to stay all day instead of having to go home.
- Innovative. Selfridge perhaps did more to change the perception of the department store than anyone else of his time. He made heavy use of advertising and gimmicks to draw in customers and also permitted browsing, let customers handle merchandise, and paid his employees a high enough wage that permitted them to live away from the business instead of over it.
- Telly. One of its many attention-grabbing gimmicks, Selfridges was the first store in the UK to display a working television during the month of April, 1925.
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) was an American-British business owner. He founded the London -based department store Selfridges . He was one of the most respected and wealthy retail businessmen in the United Kingdom .
Now immortalised in Mr Selfridge the TV show (available to stream online), the founder of our store, Harry Gordon Selfridge, changed the world of retail forever when he opened our London store in March 1909. But did you know just how many ways in which he transformed the way we shop?
Harry Gordon Selfridge lifts the curtains to reveal Selfridges’ very first windows, signalling the opening of the store. He handed out keys to the very first customers to make them feel at home, famously saying “everyone is welcome” – an ethos we’ve shared ever since.
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Sep 28, 2016 · One of the city’s greatest men and founders of one of its biggest department stores wasn’t actually born in the United Kingdom at all. He was born in Ripon, Wisconsin on 11 January 1858, though only stayed there for a few months until his family moved to Jackson, Michigan.
