Dymocks Booksellers

Dymocks Booksellers

Type	Private
Industry	Retailing
Founded	1879
Founder	William Dymock
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Number of locations	Australia, Hong Kong
Area served	Asia Pacific
Products	Books, DVDs & eBooks
Website	http://www.dymocks.com.au

Dymocks booksellers is an Australian founded privately owned bookstore chain, that also specialise in CDS, DVDS, Blu-ray discs, e-books and related merchandising. It currently has 65 stores locally and had had several stores in New Zealand and Hong Kong.

The first Dymocks bookstore was opened in Sydney by William Dymock in 1879, in Market Street. As his business grew over the years, he moved to larger premises, and eventually had a million books in stock. As he had died childless and unmarried, the business passed to his sister, Marjory, who was married to John Forsyth. Since then, the Forsyth family has managed Dymocks. In 1922, the Dymock family purchased the site of the old Royal Hotel in George Street, and built the historic, Art Deco landmark Dymocks building, completed in 1930. In 1986 the bookstore chain was established as a franchise chain, and has since opened stores in every mainland Australian state, and also internationally in New Zealand and Singapore.

In 1999, Dymocks Booksellers entered into a joint venture with South China Morning Post (Holdings) to set up Dymocks Franchise Systems (China), in order to expand the Dymocks chain into Hong Kong.

The first store with the Dymocks brand opened at the Star Ferry concourse in Central in 1999. Three Dymocks stores closed in 2012 in Hong Kong when their rental contracts expired.

It was announced in January 2015 that Dymocks would close its flagship IFC MALL store on January 25, and that it would subsequently close its Hong Kong office. After the closure of the IFC Mall store, the number of Dymocks stores in Hong Kong would be brought down to five. The remaining stores are expected to operate independently using the Dymocks name before being rebranded individually.