The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the Bleriot XI taken and displayed in his new department store.
He lives near the Army's Selfridge garrison in Harrison Township, which is expected to close.
We're--the veterans in this tri-county area will lose those benefits because of them closing at Selfridge.
Raised in a Chicago suburb, he was exposed to the retail magic Selfridge first developed there.
While the words "Ari" and "shark" seem made for each other, Selfridge is portrayed as compulsively charming.
That is really in the tradition of Harry Gordon Selfridge who opened the store on March 15, 1909.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
The Selfridge program is not like Downton Abbey, another popular PBS series brought to the US from England.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
The enterprising Gordon Selfridge had the Bleriot XI taken and displayed in his new department store in London.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was a showman, who brought many shoppers to his store.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
Piven found himself fascinated by Selfridge's history, and added some personal memories.
The brash American founder -- who is currently having his moment in the spotlight thanks to Mr Selfridge, a TV show based on his life, knew even then that silence is golden.
Arcadia Group, which owns high-street stores such as Topshop, Burtons and Miss Selfridge, will send a share of its bag sale income to children's charity Ty Hafan later in the year.
Mr. Selfridge was full of ideas to drive traffic.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
Gordon Selfridge left his namesake company in 1941.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
The Silence Room is a reincarnation of a similar space installed by founder Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1909, who intended his quiet space on the fourth floor to be an area where men could wait for their wives while they shopped.
Selfridge, who had honed his retailing strategies and marketing skills at Chicago's famed Marshall Field, built an Oxford Street shopping palace that introduced such concepts as elaborate window displays and cosmetics counters, and services ranging from restaurants to beauty salons to a concierge.
Gordon Selfridge was a promoter.
FORBES: Selfridges: A Shopper's Paradise With A Colorful Founder
Mr. PAUL PAGLE (Veteran): If you, in any one day, are at Selfridge and you see the amount of cars that are in the parking lot in front of the commissary or in front of the PX, you know, it's a benefit that veterans really will miss because they're not close to a large facility that would offer these benefits for a veteran.
应用推荐