Hudson's Bay Company facts for kids
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Traded as | TSX: HBC |
Founded | London, England 2 May 1670 |
Headquarters | 8925 Torbram Road, Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
Key people
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Helena Foulkes (CEO) Richard Baker (Governor & executive chairman) |
Revenue | C$5.223 billion (2014) |
C$258.1 million (2014) | |
Total assets | C$12.23 billion (2018) |
Owner | NRDC Equity Partners (48%) |
Divisions | Galeria Kaufhof Home Outfitters Hudson's Bay Lord & Taylor Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH |
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada, the United States and parts of Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Images for kids
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Depiction of the first sale of Hudson's Bay fur at Garraway's Coffee House in London, 1671.
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Depiction of the capture of York Factory by French forces in 1694.
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Depiction of an Indigenous woman wearing a Hudson's Bay point blanket, c. 1850.
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Depiction of the Battle of Seven Oaks, a violent confrontation between HBC and the North West Company during the Pemmican War.
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A section of a map showing the routes explored during the Palliser expedition.
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Map of British North America in 1870, prior to HBC ceding Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to Canada.
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An HBC store in Vancouver, c. 1890s.
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Hudson's Bay Montreal Downtown. Originally the flagship store for Morgan's, the department store chain was acquired by HBC in 1960.
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Hudson's Bay department store in Rotterdam in 2018.
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Lord & Taylor at the Prudential Tower in Boston. HBC owned the chain from 2012 to 2019.
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Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store. Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain owned by HBC since 2013.
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A Galeria Kaufhof in Köln. The chain was owned by HBC from 2015 to 2019.
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Alexandre Bilodeau, a winter Olympian for Canada, wearing HBC apparel made officially for the Canadian Olympic team.
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Red mittens sold by HBC for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
See also
In Spanish: Compañía de la Bahía de Hudson para niños