. Bloomingdale' S is a chain of department stores states-unienne, appartanant with the Federated Department Stores , another more important American chain, also owner of Macy' S. The stores Bloomingdale' S are famous to be ensigns knack, and the thirty-six stores distributed on the American territory generate 1,9 billion dollars each year. The main competitors of Bloomingdale' S are Lord & Taylor (older chain of department stores in the world), Nordstrom, and to a lesser extent Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. The store of Lexington Avenue, with New York, city in which the chain is originating is also under the competition of Bergdorf Goodman.

History

The history of Bloomingdale' S began in 1861, when the two brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale started to sell skirts in their drapery of the Lower East Side, with Manhattan. The two brothers were the wire of Gerald Bloomingdale him even salesman who, after having lived in North Carolina and in the Kansas, had come to settle with New York. In 1872, the two brothers opened a store proposing a broad range of clothing, of which some took as a starting point the European mode. Being given the success of their store, the two owners moved with the corner of the 59e street and Lexington Avenue, while anticipating and by benefitting from the migration of the middle-classes and easy towards north. As of the Years 1920, the store occupied a block entire .

The store chain, very established in the State of New York gradually opened new shops in others States, with Washington D.C and in the Massachusetts in the Années 1970, in Pennsylvania, with the Texas, in Florida and in the Illinois in the Années 1980, and in California starting from 1996. The targeted storage areas all were studied in order to optimize the outputs.

Anecdotes

• the address most famous remainder that of Manhattan, with the corner of the 59e street and of Lexington Avenue. In the Years 1970, at the time of the visit of the queen Elizabeth II, the direction of circulation of the Lexington Avenue (theoretically of north towards the south) was reversed, so that the queen can, once gotten out of its car, to enter directly the store by the main entrance.

• In 1961, Bloomingdale' S.A. begun the marketing of its own brand of bags. Still today, the three types of bags small, average, large bag maroon ( Little, Medium, Big Brown Bag ) are always very with the mode.

• In the televised series Friends , Rachel Green (played by Jennifer Aniston) works for one period with Bloomingdale' S, as a private seller.

• the currency of the store is Like No other blind in the world , which can result in “like any other store in the world”, or more simply “single in the world”.

See too

Internal bonds

• Macy' S

External bonds

• Official site of Bloomongdale' S

• Bloomingdale' S on nyctourist