![]() | |
![]() Flagship store in Midtown Manhattan (2019) | |
Company type | Subsidiary |
---|---|
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1867 |
Founder | Andrew Saks |
Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations |
|
Areas served | |
Key people | Marc Metrick (president, 2015) |
Parent |
|
Website | saksfifthavenue |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] |
Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; colloquially Saks) is an American luxury brand associated with Saks, a luxury ecommerce platform, and SFA stores, a chain of high-end department stores in North America. Founded by Andrew Saks, it is headquartered in New York City. The original Saks opened in the F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C. in 1867. Saks expanded into Manhattan with its Herald Square store in 1902 and flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 1924. The chain was acquired by Tennessee-based Proffitt's, Inc. (renamed Saks, Inc.) in 1998, and Saks, Inc. was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 2013.[5][6]
As of March 2021[update], Saks Fifth Avenue's brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce platform operate as separate companies, distinguished as SFA and Saks, respectively, with an exclusive partnership.[7] Saks Off 5th, originally a clearance store for Saks Fifth Avenue, is now a large off-price retailer in its own right.[8][9]
Saks opened Off 5th in 1990 as a merchandise clearinghouse, but has also expanded since then…HBC's three distinct retail businesses,