Selfridges - Fashion Company Profile
Selfridges is Harry Gordon Selfridge's Oxford Street department store - the 1909 London landmark that turned shopping into theatre - today trading under Central Group and the Saudi Public Investment Fund after a century of famous owners.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - four U.K. department stores: the Oxford Street flagship in London, Birmingham, and Manchester Exchange Square and Trafford Centre
- Type
- Private - Selfridges Group; owned by Central Group of Thailand (60 percent) and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (40 percent) since October 2024
- Headquarters
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1909, on Oxford Street, London, by Harry Gordon Selfridge
Company Profile
Selfridges trades on: the button above leads to its website, and this page carries no shop box because Selfridges is a retailer whose own site is the place to shop it. The linked history page keeps the full record this profile has carried: Harry Selfridge's arrival from Chicago in 1906 and the retail innovations - beauty at the front door, windows as theatre - that Britain adopted from him; the John Lewis and Lewis's years; the 1965 Sears Group takeover under Charles Clore and the expansion to Manchester and Birmingham; the 2003 purchase by Galen Weston; and the store's 2016 'Bright New Things' sustainability platform, recorded here with the store's 2016 photograph.
Those innovations, the record notes, are deeply rooted in Selfridges' history: the store presented shopping as a rich social experience linked to the values of popular culture, and its windows - still a London sight in themselves - made browsing an event before the word existed. Harry Selfridge's own ending was less triumphant than his store's: a lavish lifestyle and the upheavals of the 1930s ended his control, and he left the business with little of his fortune, but the institution he built on Oxford Street outlasted him entirely.
Selfridges History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Selfridges History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Who founded Selfridges, and when?
Harry Gordon Selfridge, an American retailer from Chicago, who arrived in London in 1906 and opened the Oxford Street store in 1909, introducing American-style service, spectacle windows and the front-of-store beauty counter to British retail.
Who owns Selfridges now?
Central Group of Thailand holds the majority (60 percent) and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund holds 40 percent, a structure settled in October 2024 after Central bought control following Signa's collapse; the Weston family had sold the group in 2021.
How many Selfridges stores are there?
Four, all in the United Kingdom: the Oxford Street flagship in London, Birmingham, and two in Manchester (Exchange Square and the Trafford Centre).
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