Printemps (department stores)
Printemps ( French spring ) [ pʁɛ̃tɑ̃ ] is a chain of department stores whose main branch is located on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of the French capital Paris .
background
The Grands Magasins du Printemps were opened on May 11, 1865 by Jules Jaluzot and Jean Alfred Duclos in a building built by Paul Sédille on Boulevard Haussmann No. 64 with 2,885 m² of retail space . Jaluzot anticipated Georges-Eugène Haussmann's planning for the street, which was not fully completed until January 1927. Two large fires destroyed the department store on March 9, 1881 and September 28, 1921, resulting in a spectacular rebuilding. As a result of the first fire, the large department store became a pioneer in electrical lighting. Because in February 1883 the second building of the department store with electric light could open. In November 1887, the department store signed a contract with Gustave Eiffel to supply scrap iron from the construction of the Eiffel Tower to make souvenirs .
The house is particularly famous for its Art Nouveau glass dome with stained glass, which was built in 1923 after the second fire . Under the dome there is a café (“Café Flo”). The facade and dome have been a registered historical monument since 1975. In November 2009 the department store received a new facade, taking into account the listed parts
The department store has several branches all over France, also in Andorra , in Tokyo Ginza , in Jeddah and in Seoul . The only branch in North America, which opened in Denver in 1987 , is now closed again. Nearby, at 40 Boulevard Haussmann, is the second famous Parisian department store, Galeries Lafayette .
owner
The Pinault Group ( PPR Group ) acquired the department store in December 1992 from the Swiss Maus Frères Holding . In June 2006, a consortium from the Borletti Group (which owned the Italian department store chain La Rinascente ) and the Deutsche Bank investor RREEF acquired the department store. In April 2013, the Borletti Group and RREEF announced the sale of Printemps; The buyer is a consortium of investors from Qatar . The purchase price including debts is 1.6 billion euros.
Web links
- Official site (English).
- Article archive on Printemps in TextilWirtschaft
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Printemps in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Paul Caracalla: Roman du Printemps, Éditions Denoël, 1989
- ↑ Information on the website of the French Ministry of Culture (French) , accessed on April 7, 2013
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↑ dpa-afx: "Rinascente and Deutsche Bank want to buy Printemps-Konsumtempel" , Handelsblatt , June 21, 2006
Bea Gottschlich: "Le Printemps goes Italian" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , TextilWirtschaft, June 29, 2006 - ↑ Handelsblatt dated April 8, 2013, Deutsche Bank agrees to Printemps sale
literature
- Jean-Paul Caracalla: Le Roman du Printemps - Histoire d'un Grand Magasin. Denoël, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-207-23624-2 .
- Camille Rey: Histoire du Printemps, 1865-1924 , thesis (mémoire de maîtrise), under the direction of Christophe Charle, Université Paris 1, 2004.
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 25.6 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 44.5" E