Mitsukoshi

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Mitsukoshi

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding 1673
Seat Nihonbashi-Muromachi, Chūō , Tokyo
management Taneo Nakamura ( daihyō-torishimariyaku -shachō )
Kunio Ishizuka ( daihyō-torishimariyaku-shachō ken'ei-gyōkikaku-hombuchō )
Number of employees 9,405 (February 2008)
sales 773.9 billion yen (February 2008, € 4.8 billion)
Branch retail trade
Website www.mitsukoshi.co.jp

The company KK Mitsukoshi ( Japanese 株式会社 三越 , Kabushiki-gaisha Mitsukoshi ), listed in the Nikkei 225 , is one of the three major Japanese department store chains ( Depāto ). In 1998 , Mitsukoshi was directly behind market leader Takashimaya and ahead of third-placed department store chain Seibu Hyakkaten .

history

Mitsukoshi Tokyo

The company was founded in Japan during the Edo period in 1673 . The company's headquarters are in Tokyo and later split off from the Mitsui Group . On April 1, 2008, Mitsukoshi merged with Depāto Isetan under a joint holding company called KK Mitsukoshi-Isetan Holdings ( 株式会社 三越 伊勢丹 ホ ー ル デ ィ ン グ ス , Kabushiki-gaisha Mitsukoshi Isetan Hōrudingusu , Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. ).

The “Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi” department store in Tokyo has the largest food department in a department store in the world (followed by KaDeWe in Berlin).

foreign countries

The foreign branches are dedicated to Japanese tourists as a target group , who are offered a selection of articles and souvenirs typical of the country in a noble ambience in inner-city locations in these interesting metropolises . Together with the purchase, the VAT refund is prepared on site. The same goes for foreign tourists in the Japanese branches. There are branches in Europe in Rome and Madrid , among others .

Germany

There are currently no branches in Germany.

One in Berlin was abandoned in the 1990s after a short existence on Kurfürstendamm due to the lack of a direct flight between Japan and the city. Branches in Frankfurt am Main and Munich were closed on December 31, 2008 and those in Düsseldorf on June 30, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonia Meiners: 100 years of KaDeWe . Nicolai, Berlin 2007, p. 121.
  2. ↑ ド イ ツ の 三越 3 店舗 閉 店 の お 知 ら せ . Mitsukoshi, archived from the original on May 30, 2009 ; Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ デ ュ ッ セ ル ド ル フ 三越 閉 店 の お 知 ら せ . Mitsukoshi, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; Retrieved July 27, 2016 (Japanese).

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