Harrods

Harrods is a leading department store located on 87-135 Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Buenos Aires, Harrods Bank, Air Harrods, Harrods Aviation and Harrods Estates. The store occupies 20,000 m² site and has over 90,000 m² of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 50,000 m² of selling space. The Harrods motto is All Things for All People, Everywhere. Other of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous. Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1,5 billion (miljardia).

Services and products
The store's 330 departments offer a large selection of services and products. Products on offer include clothing for every kind of customer (men, women, children, and infants), electronics, jewellery, sporting gear, bridal trousseau, pets and pet accessories, toys, food and drink, health and beauty items, packaged gifts, stationery, housewares, home appliances, furniture, and more. A representative sample of store services includes 32 restaurants, serving everything from high tea to pub food to tapas to haute cuisine, a personal shopping-assistance programme, a watch repair service, a tailor, a dispensing pharmacy, a beauty spa and salon, a barbers shop, Harrods Financial Services, Harrods Bank, Ella Jade Bathroom Planning and Design Service, private events catering and planning, food delivery, a wine steward bespoke "picnic" hampers and gift boxes, bespoke cakes, and bespoke fragrance formulations. Up to 300,000 customers visit the store on peak days, comprising the highest proportion of customers from non-English speaking countries of any department store in London. More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods. As of the 15 October 2009, Harrods Bank has started selling gold bars and coins that customers can buy. The gold products range from 1 g to 12.5 kg. They also offer storage services. Selling back gold to Harrods is possible in the future.

http://www.harrods.com/