Saturday, January 8, 2005

Harrods

Harrods department store, Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, Kensington, London

Harrods department store
Brompton Road
Knightsbridge, Kensington
London, September 2003

“Harrods Limited is a department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. It is owned by the state of Qatar via its sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and formerly to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011. The store occupies a 5-acre (2 ha) site and has 330 departments covering 1.1 million sq ft (100,000 m2) of retail space. It is one of the largest and most famous department stores in Europe. The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique, which is Latin for ‘all things for all people, everywhere’.” (Harrods, Wikipedia)

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