Bloomingdale's (or Bloomie's) "like no other store in the world" is an upscale, full-line American department store owned by Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores), which is also the parent company of Macy's. The brand includes over 60 stores.
Bloomingdale's plans to open the company's first international location in Spring 2010 with apparel and home stores in Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates.
It competes and follows after Saks...
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Bloomingdale's (or Bloomie's) "like no other store in the world" is an upscale, full-line American department store owned by Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores), which is also the parent company of Macy's. The brand includes over 60 stores.
Bloomingdale's plans to open the company's first international location in Spring 2010 with apparel and home stores in Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates.
It competes and follows after Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and Barneys New York.
Bloomingdale's started in 1861 when brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale started selling hoop-skirts in their Ladies Notions' Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side while their father peddled the highly fashionable hoop-skirts along the Eastern Seaboard. The pair were sons of Benjamin Bloomingdale, a Bavarian-born salesman who had lived in North Carolina and Kansas, and settled in New York City.
In 1872 the Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue...
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