Mitsukoshi
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
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
- ↑ Antonia Meiners: 100 years of KaDeWe . Nicolai, Berlin 2007, p. 121.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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).
Web links
- http://www.mitsukoshi.co.jp/ (Japanese)