Bloomingdale's
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Bloomingdale's flagship store
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| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1861 |
| Founder |
Joseph B. Bloomingdale Lyman G. Bloomingdale |
| Headquarters | 1000 Third Avenue New York, New York, US |
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Number of locations
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38 stores 16 Bloomingdale's Outlets |
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Area served
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Nationwide |
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Key people
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Tony Spring (Chairman, CEO) |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, leather goods, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, housewares, cafe |
| Revenue | US$ 1.072 billion |
| Parent | Macy's, Inc. |
| Website | www |
Bloomingdale's is a luxury department store owned by Macy's, Inc. It was founded in 1861.
Brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale founded Bloomingdale's in 1861, when they began selling hoop skirts in their Ladies Notions' Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side. 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, New York City.
As the hoop skirt's popularity was declining, the brothers closed their East Side Bazaar in 1872, in a small row house on Third Avenue and 56th Street, selling a variety of garments such as ladies' skirts, corsets, "gent's furnishings", and European fashions. At the time the East Side was a working class neighborhood with shanty towns, garbage dumps, and stockyards. Most of their customers and competitors were in the Upper West Side, and at that time most "respectable" stores only specialized in one trade.
Within a few years after opening the store, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, the new St. Patrick's Cathedral was dedicated near the store after moving from its downtown location, Central Park was completed, and the upper portion of the New York City Subway-operated IRT Lexington Avenue Line began construction. These additions brought to the East Side wealthy customers, who built brownstones that surrounded the new park.
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