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Saks Fifth Avenue is an American department store chain owned by the Canadian retailer, Hudson's Bay Company. Its flagship store and corporate headquarters are located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Store Locations and Events )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Us )〕 Competitors in the US have historically included Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, and its sister Lord & Taylor. ==History== Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew Saks in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. Saks died in 1912, and in 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks, Bernard Gimbel, operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, with a full-block avenue frontage south of St Patrick's Cathedral, facing Rockefeller Center. The architects were Starrett & van Vleck, who developed a reticent, genteel Anglophile classicizing facade similar to their Gimbels Department Store in Pittsburgh (1914). When Bernard's brother, Adam Gimbel, became president of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Bernard's sudden passing, the company expanded, opening seasonal resort branches Palm Beach, Florida and Southampton, New York, in 1928. The first full-line year-round Saks store opened in Chicago, in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1938, Saks expanded to the West Coast, opening in Beverly Hills, California. By the end of the 1930s, Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores, including resort locations such as Sun Valley, Idaho, Mount Stowe, and Newport, Rhode Island. More full-line stores followed with Detroit, Michigan, in 1940 and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1949. In Downtown Pittsburgh, the company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home on the fourth floor in the downtown Gimbel's flagship. The San Francisco location opened in 1952. BATUS Inc. acquired Gimbel Bros., Inc. and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidiary in 1973 as part of its diversification strategy. More expansion followed from the 1960s through the 1990s including the Midwest, and the South, particularly in Texas. In 1990, BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S.A., which took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings, Inc. In 1998, Proffitt's, Inc. the parent company of Proffitt's and other department stores, acquired Saks Holdings Inc. Upon completing the acquisition, Proffitt's, Inc. changed its name to Saks, Inc. Since 2000 Saks has opened international locations in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, and Mexico City. In August 2007, the United States Postal Service began an experimental program selling the plus zip code extension to businesses. The first company to do so was Saks Fifth Avenue, which received the zip code of 10022-SHOE (7463) for the eighth-floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store. As of 2013, the New York flagship store generated around 20% of annual sales at $1 billion.〔http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130729/REAL_ESTATE/130729876/saks-flagship-adds-1b-punch-to-purchase〕 On July 29, 2013, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), owner of the competing chain Lord & Taylor, announced it would acquire Saks Fifth Avenue's parent company for US$2.9 billion. Plans called for up to seven Saks Fifth Avenues to open in major Canadian markets. Expansion into Canada is expected to compete with Canadian Holt Renfrew chain and challenge Nordstrom's expansion into Canada, which began in summer 2014 with the opening of a Nordstrom store in Calgary. In January 2014, HBC announced the first Saks store in Canada would occupy in its flagship Queen Street building in downtown Toronto, which will be connected to the Toronto Eaton Centre via sky bridge. The store will open in autumn 2015 with a second Toronto area location in the Sherway Gardens shopping center opening in spring 2016. On January 6, 2014, Marigay McKee, previously Chief Merchant at Harrods, became president of Saks Fifth Avenue. She stepped down 15 months later on April 2, 2015, and was replaced by Marc Metrick, a former executive at Saks’s parent company, Hudson’s Bay.〔(President of Saks Steps Down ). ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on April 3, 2015.〕 Starting in 2015 Saks began a $250 million, three-year restoration of its Fifth Avenue flagship store.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/business/saks-is-shaking-off-retail-gloom-with-a-fifth-avenue-face-lift.html〕 In the summer of 2015, it was announced that Saks will debut a new location in Greenwich, Connecticut.〔http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151008005752/en/Saks-Avenue-Signs-Lease-Location-Greenwich-Connecticut〕〔http://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/Saks-signs-lease-for-third-Greenwich-property-6551701.php,〕 In the fall of 2015, Saks plans to replace its existing store at the Houston Galleria with a new store. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saks Fifth Avenue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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