Selfridges

Selfridges Retail Limited

Selfridges flagship store in London
Trade name	Selfridges
Company type	Private limited company
Industry	Retail
Genre	Department store
Founded	1908; 116 years ago (1908)
Founder	Harry Gordon Selfridge
Headquarters	400 Oxford Street London, United Kingdom
Number of locations	Four: Oxford Street, London Trafford Centre, Manchester Exchange Sq., Manchester Bullring, Birmingham
Key people	Andrew Keith[1] (Managing Director)
Owners	Central Group (50%)[2][3] Signa Holding (50%)[4]
Parent	Selfridges & Co. Limited[5]
Website	www.selfridges.com

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of large department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908.

The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods). It opened on 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in Manchester at the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).

During the 1940s, smaller Selfridges stores were sold to the John Lewis Partnership, and in 1951, the original Oxford Street store was bought by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores. Lewis's and Selfridges were then taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group, owned by Charles Clore. The business expanded under the Sears Group to include branches in Manchester and Birmingham. It was bought in 2003 by Canada's Galen Weston for £598 million. In December 2021, the Weston family agreed to sell the majority of Selfridges Group for around £4 billion to a joint venture between Thai conglomerate Central Group and Austria's Signa Holding.

Selfridges & Co. was named the Best Department Store in the World in 2010, 2012 and 2014.^[6]

It is owned by the Signa Holding group, which is owned by Austrian real estate billionaire René Benko. It filed for administration in 2023.^[7]