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Saks Fifth Avenue

December 29, 2022

This article is about the department store chain. For the related chain of off-price stores, see Saks Off 5th. For its former parent company, see Saks, Inc.

Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; colloquially Saks) is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store 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 Canadian-founded Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 2013.[5][6]

Saks Fifth Avenue
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail
Founded1867 (155 years ago) (1867)
FounderAndrew Saks
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Number of locations
  • 45
Areas served
  • United States
  • Canada
Key people
Marc Metrick (president, 2015)
Parent
Websitesaksfifthavenue.com
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3][4]

Subsidiary Saks Off 5th, originally a clearance store for Saks Fifth Avenue, is now a large off-price retailer in its own right managed independently from Saks Fifth Avenue under HBC.[7][8]

History

Early history

 
Saks and Co.’s new store, Washington D.C. 1887. Demolished.
 
Saks and Co., next to Kann's, NW corner of Pennsylvania and 7th, Washington, D.C., 1920. Demolished. The Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock in front still exists in what is now the United States Navy Memorial park.

Andrew Saks was born to a German Jewish family, in Baltimore. He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington, D.C. where at the age of only 20, and in the still-chaotic and tough economic times of 1867, only two years after the United States prevailed in the American Civil War, he established a men's clothing store[9] with his brother Isadore.[10][11] A. Saks & Co. occupied a storefront in the Avenue House Hotel building at 517 (300-308) 7th Street, N.W., in what is still Washington's downtown shopping district. Saks offered his goods at one price only, no bargaining, and offered refunds on merchandise returns, neither of which were the more common practice at that place and time.[citation needed] Saks was also known for its "forceful and interesting, but strictly truthful" newspaper advertising, according to the Washington Evening Star, including a two-page spread, large for that time, in that newspaper on April 4, 1898. Saks annexed the store next door, and in 1887 started building a large new store on the site of the old Avenue Hotel Building at 7th and Market Space (now United States Navy Memorial Plaza).[12]

In 1896 Saks opened a branch store in Indianapolis in Ingall's Block, which was a success. then they expanded to Norfolk, Virginia, and by 1897 had six stores: Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, Indianapolis, and two stores as well as a clothing factory in New York City. Saks called itself "Washington's Wonderful Store".[13]

20th century

Saks opened a very large store in 1902 in New York City's Herald Square on 34th Street and Broadway.[12][14]: 2  Andrew Saks ran the New York store as a family affair with his brother Isadore, and his sons Horace and William.[citation needed] Andrew Saks died in 1912 and his son Horace took over the company's management.[14]: 2 

In 1923, Saks & Co. merged with Gimbel Brothers, Inc., which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks,[15] Bernard Gimbel, operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. On September 15, 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened in the Saks Fifth Avenue Building at 611 Fifth Avenue, with a full-block avenue frontage south of St. Patrick's Cathedral, facing what would become Rockefeller Center.[16] The architects were Starrett & van Vleck, who developed a design derived from classical architecture.[14]: 4–5 

When Bernard's cousin, Adam Gimbel, became president of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Horace Saks's sudden death, the company expanded, opening seasonal resort branches in Palm Beach, Florida, and Southampton, New York, in 1928. The first full-line year-round Saks store opened in Chicago, in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1938, Saks expanded to the West Coast, opening in Beverly Hills, California. By the end of the 1930s, Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores, including resort locations such as Sun Valley, Idaho, Mount Stowe, and Newport, Rhode Island. More full-line stores followed with Detroit, Michigan, in 1940 and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1949. In Downtown Pittsburgh, the company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home on the fourth floor in the downtown Gimbel's flagship. The San Francisco location opened in 1952, competing locally with I. Magnin.[17] BATUS Inc. acquired Gimbel Bros., Inc. and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidiary in 1973 as part of its diversification strategy. More expansion followed from the 1960s through the 1990s including the Midwest, and the South, particularly in Texas. In 1990, BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S.A., which took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings, Inc.

In 1990, the company launched "Saks Off 5th", an outlet store offshoot of the main brand, with 107 stores worldwide by 2016.[18]

In 1998, Proffitt's, Inc. the parent company of Proffitt's and other department stores, acquired Saks Holdings Inc. Upon completing the acquisition, Proffitt's, Inc. changed its name to Saks, Inc.[19][20]

21st century

In November 2001 the first Middle Eastern store opened at Kingdom Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[21][22]

In August 2007, the United States Postal Service began an experimental program selling the plus ZIP code extension to businesses. The first company to do so was Saks Fifth Avenue, which received the ZIP code of 10022-7463 ("SHOE", on a U.S. touch-tone keypad) for the eighth-floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store.[23]

The first Mexican store opened at the Centro Comercial Santa Fe in Mexico City, Mexico in November of 2007. Another store opened at Plaza Carso in 2010 this store closed in October 2020. [24][25][26][27]

Saks opened a location at the City Centre Mall in Manama, Bahrain in 2008, the store has two floors and is 57,000 square feet and was the third store opened in the Middle East and is currently the only Saks store in the Middle East.[28][29]

During the 2007–2009 recession, Saks Fifth Avenue had to cut prices and profit margins, thus according to Reuters "training shoppers to expect discounts. It took three years before it could start selling at closer to full price".[30][31] [32][33][34][35]

A new international store opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan at 3 floors tall and 91,000 square feet the store is located at the Esenati Shopping Mall and licensed by the VILED Group, it is still in operation as of 2022.[36][37][38]

In 2012, the store in Riyadh owned by Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud closed after the licensing agreement expired in 2011.[21][22]

As of 2013, the New York flagship store, whose real estate value was estimated between $800 million and over $1 billion at the time, generated around 20% of Saks' annual sales at $620 million, with other stores being less profitable according to analysts.[30][39]

 
Interior entrance of the Saks Fifth Avenue store at Toronto Eaton Center in Toronto, Ontario (2016)

On July 29, 2013, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest commercial corporation in North America and owner of the competing chain Lord & Taylor, announced it would acquire Saks Fifth Avenue's parent company for US$2.9 billion.[40] Plans called for up to seven Saks Fifth Avenues to open in major Canadian markets. In January 2014, HBC announced the first Saks store in Canada would occupy 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m2) in its flagship Queen Street building in downtown Toronto, connected to the Toronto Eaton Centre via sky bridge. The store opened in February 2016[41] with a second Toronto area location in the Sherway Gardens shopping center opening in spring 2016.[42] On February 22, 2018, Saks Fifth Avenue opened its third Canadian store in Calgary, Alberta.[43]

In 2015 Saks began a $250 million, three-year restoration of its Fifth Avenue flagship store.[44] In October 2015, Saks announced a new location in Greenwich, Connecticut.[45][46] In autumn 2015, Saks announced it would replace its existing store at the Houston Galleria with a new store.[47][48] [49][50]

On August 31, 2016 the 80,000 square foot store at the BurJuman Centre in Dubai closed after being open since 2005, the store was Saks last store in the UAE after failed attempts at expansion.[51]

On Friday, January 15, 2021, Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled a 54,000-square-foot space on the fifth floor of its flagship in New York, titled Barneys at Saks. The collaboration is aimed at continuing Barneys New York tradition of unearthing and promoting emerging designers.[52]

On Monday, January 25, 2021, Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled the first standalone Barneys at Saks store in a 14,000-square-foot location in Greenwich, Connecticut. This marked the first time Saks has offered men’s merchandise in the Greenwich market.[53]

In August 2021, Saks Fifth Avenue announced that it would be teaming up with WeWork to open new co-working locations.[54]

In 2021, Saks announced that it would close all 27 of its fur salons, including those located in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Beverly Hills, by the end of January 2022. The company also said it would stop both online and in-store sales of products made from animals raised for their fur or those made with fur from wild animals by January 2023.[55]

In 2022, Sansborn Group decided to close the last remaining store in Mexico in Santa Fe and that Sears Mexico will replace the store keeping the current staff.[56][27]

Legal controversies

In 2005, vendors filed against Saks alleging unlawful chargebacks. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated the complaint for years and, according to the New York Times, "exposed a tangle of illicit tactics that let Saks... keep money it owed to clothing makers", inflating Saks' yearly earnings up to 43% and abusively collecting around $30 million from suppliers over seven years.[57] Saks settled with the SEC in 2007, after firing three or more executives involved in the fraudulent activities.[57][58]

In 2014, Saks fired transgender employee Leyth Jamal after she was allegedly "belittled by coworkers, forced to use the men's room and repeatedly referred to by male pronouns (he and him)".[59][60] After Jamal submitted a lawsuit for unfair dismissal, the company stated in a motion to dismiss that "it is well settled that transsexuals are not protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."[59][60][61] In a court filing, the United States Department of Justice rebuked Saks' argument, stating that "discrimination against an individual based on gender identity is discrimination because of sex."[62] The Human Rights Campaign removed the company from its list of "allies" during the controversy.[59][60][61] The lawsuit was later settled amicably, with undisclosed terms.[62]

In 2017, following the events of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Saks's San Juan store in Mall of San Juan suffered major damages along with its neighboring anchor store Nordstrom. Taubman Centers, the company which owns the mall, filed a lawsuit against Saks for failing to provide an estimated reopening date and failing to restore damages after the hurricane due to a binding contract.[63][64] Although Nordstrom reopened on November 9, 2018, on October 30, 2018, Saks Fifth Avenue announced that it would officially vacate The Mall Of San Juan.[citation needed]

Notable locations

Saks–34th Street

 
The Herald Square Saks & Co. store in 1903, behind the 33rd Street station
 
The footbridge that connected Gimbel's to Saks 34th St.

Saks-34th Street was a fashion-focused middle market department store at 1293-1311 Broadway on Herald Square. The building, built in 1902, had seven stories and was designed by Buchman & Fox.[65] The store was spun off from Saks & Company when that upscale retailer moved to Fifth Avenue, a location that Saks Fifth Avenue maintains to this day.[66] The newly renamed Saks-34th Street was sold to Bernard F. Gimbel,[65] and became a part of the New York division of Gimbels (later Manhattan Mall), and a sky bridge across 33rd Street connected the second floors of both flagship buildings.[67] In the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street the facade of Saks-34th Street is shown in a scene that focuses on the Gimbel's flagship store. Branch locations were opened around the greater New York area. The store closed in 1965, citing poor layouts, no escalators, a confused identity, and outdated facade.[65] After Gimbels decided to close the division, the first floor of the building was used as a Christmas season annex for Gimbel's before being sold to the E. J. Korvettes chain.[68][69] After the demise of the Korvette's chain the building was remodeled into the Herald Center, in 1985. As of 2016 the primary tenant is H&M, following another remodel.[70]

Beverly Hills

Main article: Saks Fifth Avenue store building (Beverly Hills)

The Saks Fifth Avenue store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, was designed by the architectural firm Parkinson and Parkinson, with interiors by Paul R. Williams.[71][72] The store opened in 1938.[73] The store was immediately successful upon opening and it would subsequently expand to almost 74,000 square feet (6,900 m2) and employ 500 people.[74] Williams created an interior reminiscent of his designs for luxurious private residences, with rooms lit by indirect lamps and footlights focused on the clothes.[71] New departments for furs, corsets, gifts and debutante dresses were added in the 1940 expansion.[74]

Gallery

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This article is about the department store chain For the related chain of off price stores see Saks Off 5th For its former parent company see Saks Inc Saks Fifth Avenue originally Saks amp Company colloquially Saks is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks The original store 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 Canadian founded Hudson s Bay Company HBC in 2013 5 6 Saks Fifth AvenueFlagship store in Midtown Manhattan 2019 TypeSubsidiaryIndustryRetailFounded1867 155 years ago 1867 FounderAndrew SaksHeadquartersNew York City New York United StatesNumber of locations45Areas servedUnited States CanadaKey peopleMarc Metrick president 2015 ParentSaks Inc 1998 2013 Hudson s Bay Company 2013 present Websitesaksfifthavenue wbr comFootnotes references 1 2 3 4 Subsidiary Saks Off 5th originally a clearance store for Saks Fifth Avenue is now a large off price retailer in its own right managed independently from Saks Fifth Avenue under HBC 7 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Legal controversies 3 Notable locations 3 1 Saks 34th Street 3 2 Beverly Hills 4 Gallery 5 References 6 External linksHistory EditEarly history Edit Saks and Co s new store Washington D C 1887 Demolished Saks and Co next to Kann s NW corner of Pennsylvania and 7th Washington D C 1920 Demolished The Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock in front still exists in what is now the United States Navy Memorial park Andrew Saks was born to a German Jewish family in Baltimore He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington D C where at the age of only 20 and in the still chaotic and tough economic times of 1867 only two years after the United States prevailed in the American Civil War he established a men s clothing store 9 with his brother Isadore 10 11 A Saks amp Co occupied a storefront in the Avenue House Hotel building at 517 300 308 7th Street N W in what is still Washington s downtown shopping district Saks offered his goods at one price only no bargaining and offered refunds on merchandise returns neither of which were the more common practice at that place and time citation needed Saks was also known for its forceful and interesting but strictly truthful newspaper advertising according to the Washington Evening Star including a two page spread large for that time in that newspaper on April 4 1898 Saks annexed the store next door and in 1887 started building a large new store on the site of the old Avenue Hotel Building at 7th and Market Space now United States Navy Memorial Plaza 12 In 1896 Saks opened a branch store in Indianapolis in Ingall s Block which was a success then they expanded to Norfolk Virginia and by 1897 had six stores Washington D C Richmond Virginia Norfolk Virginia Indianapolis and two stores as well as a clothing factory in New York City Saks called itself Washington s Wonderful Store 13 20th century Edit Saks opened a very large store in 1902 in New York City s Herald Square on 34th Street and Broadway 12 14 2 Andrew Saks ran the New York store as a family affair with his brother Isadore and his sons Horace and William citation needed Andrew Saks died in 1912 and his son Horace took over the company s management 14 2 In 1923 Saks amp Co merged with Gimbel Brothers Inc which was owned by a cousin of Horace Saks 15 Bernard Gimbel operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary On September 15 1924 Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened in the Saks Fifth Avenue Building at 611 Fifth Avenue with a full block avenue frontage south of St Patrick s Cathedral facing what would become Rockefeller Center 16 The architects were Starrett amp van Vleck who developed a design derived from classical architecture 14 4 5 When Bernard s cousin Adam Gimbel became president of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926 after Horace Saks s sudden death the company expanded opening seasonal resort branches in Palm Beach Florida and Southampton New York in 1928 The first full line year round Saks store opened in Chicago in 1929 followed by another resort store in Miami Beach Florida In 1938 Saks expanded to the West Coast opening in Beverly Hills California By the end of the 1930s Saks Fifth Avenue had a total of 10 stores including resort locations such as Sun Valley Idaho Mount Stowe and Newport Rhode Island More full line stores followed with Detroit Michigan in 1940 and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1949 In Downtown Pittsburgh the company moved to its own freestanding location approximately one block from its former home on the fourth floor in the downtown Gimbel s flagship The San Francisco location opened in 1952 competing locally with I Magnin 17 BATUS Inc acquired Gimbel Bros Inc and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidiary in 1973 as part of its diversification strategy More expansion followed from the 1960s through the 1990s including the Midwest and the South particularly in Texas In 1990 BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S A which took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings Inc In 1990 the company launched Saks Off 5th an outlet store offshoot of the main brand with 107 stores worldwide by 2016 18 In 1998 Proffitt s Inc the parent company of Proffitt s and other department stores acquired Saks Holdings Inc Upon completing the acquisition Proffitt s Inc changed its name to Saks Inc 19 20 21st century Edit In November 2001 the first Middle Eastern store opened at Kingdom Centre in Riyadh Saudi Arabia 21 22 In August 2007 the United States Postal Service began an experimental program selling the plus ZIP code extension to businesses The first company to do so was Saks Fifth Avenue which received the ZIP code of 10022 7463 SHOE on a U S touch tone keypad for the eighth floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store 23 The first Mexican store opened at the Centro Comercial Santa Fe in Mexico City Mexico in November of 2007 Another store opened at Plaza Carso in 2010 this store closed in October 2020 24 25 26 27 Saks opened a location at the City Centre Mall in Manama Bahrain in 2008 the store has two floors and is 57 000 square feet and was the third store opened in the Middle East and is currently the only Saks store in the Middle East 28 29 During the 2007 2009 recession Saks Fifth Avenue had to cut prices and profit margins thus according to Reuters training shoppers to expect discounts It took three years before it could start selling at closer to full price 30 31 32 33 34 35 A new international store opened in Almaty Kazakhstan at 3 floors tall and 91 000 square feet the store is located at the Esenati Shopping Mall and licensed by the VILED Group it is still in operation as of 2022 36 37 38 In 2012 the store in Riyadh owned by Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud closed after the licensing agreement expired in 2011 21 22 As of 2013 the New York flagship store whose real estate value was estimated between 800 million and over 1 billion at the time generated around 20 of Saks annual sales at 620 million with other stores being less profitable according to analysts 30 39 Interior entrance of the Saks Fifth Avenue store at Toronto Eaton Center in Toronto Ontario 2016 On July 29 2013 the Hudson s Bay Company HBC the oldest commercial corporation in North America and owner of the competing chain Lord amp Taylor announced it would acquire Saks Fifth Avenue s parent company for US 2 9 billion 40 Plans called for up to seven Saks Fifth Avenues to open in major Canadian markets In January 2014 HBC announced the first Saks store in Canada would occupy 150 000 sq ft 14 000 m2 in its flagship Queen Street building in downtown Toronto connected to the Toronto Eaton Centre via sky bridge The store opened in February 2016 41 with a second Toronto area location in the Sherway Gardens shopping center opening in spring 2016 42 On February 22 2018 Saks Fifth Avenue opened its third Canadian store in Calgary Alberta 43 In 2015 Saks began a 250 million three year restoration of its Fifth Avenue flagship store 44 In October 2015 Saks announced a new location in Greenwich Connecticut 45 46 In autumn 2015 Saks announced it would replace its existing store at the Houston Galleria with a new store 47 48 49 50 On August 31 2016 the 80 000 square foot store at the BurJuman Centre in Dubai closed after being open since 2005 the store was Saks last store in the UAE after failed attempts at expansion 51 On Friday January 15 2021 Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled a 54 000 square foot space on the fifth floor of its flagship in New York titled Barneys at Saks The collaboration is aimed at continuing Barneys New York tradition of unearthing and promoting emerging designers 52 On Monday January 25 2021 Saks Fifth Avenue unveiled the first standalone Barneys at Saks store in a 14 000 square foot location in Greenwich Connecticut This marked the first time Saks has offered men s merchandise in the Greenwich market 53 In August 2021 Saks Fifth Avenue announced that it would be teaming up with WeWork to open new co working locations 54 In 2021 Saks announced that it would close all 27 of its fur salons including those located in New York Boston Philadelphia and Beverly Hills by the end of January 2022 The company also said it would stop both online and in store sales of products made from animals raised for their fur or those made with fur from wild animals by January 2023 55 In 2022 Sansborn Group decided to close the last remaining store in Mexico in Santa Fe and that Sears Mexico will replace the store keeping the current staff 56 27 Legal controversies EditIn 2005 vendors filed against Saks alleging unlawful chargebacks The U S Securities and Exchange Commission SEC investigated the complaint for years and according to the New York Times exposed a tangle of illicit tactics that let Saks keep money it owed to clothing makers inflating Saks yearly earnings up to 43 and abusively collecting around 30 million from suppliers over seven years 57 Saks settled with the SEC in 2007 after firing three or more executives involved in the fraudulent activities 57 58 In 2014 Saks fired transgender employee Leyth Jamal after she was allegedly belittled by coworkers forced to use the men s room and repeatedly referred to by male pronouns he and him 59 60 After Jamal submitted a lawsuit for unfair dismissal the company stated in a motion to dismiss that it is well settled that transsexuals are not protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 59 60 61 In a court filing the United States Department of Justice rebuked Saks argument stating that discrimination against an individual based on gender identity is discrimination because of sex 62 The Human Rights Campaign removed the company from its list of allies during the controversy 59 60 61 The lawsuit was later settled amicably with undisclosed terms 62 In 2017 following the events of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico Saks s San Juan store in Mall of San Juan suffered major damages along with its neighboring anchor store Nordstrom Taubman Centers the company which owns the mall filed a lawsuit against Saks for failing to provide an estimated reopening date and failing to restore damages after the hurricane due to a binding contract 63 64 Although Nordstrom reopened on November 9 2018 on October 30 2018 Saks Fifth Avenue announced that it would officially vacate The Mall Of San Juan citation needed Notable locations EditSaks 34th Street Edit The Herald Square Saks amp Co store in 1903 behind the 33rd Street station The footbridge that connected Gimbel s to Saks 34th St Saks 34th Street was a fashion focused middle market department store at 1293 1311 Broadway on Herald Square The building built in 1902 had seven stories and was designed by Buchman amp Fox 65 The store was spun off from Saks amp Company when that upscale retailer moved to Fifth Avenue a location that Saks Fifth Avenue maintains to this day 66 The newly renamed Saks 34th Street was sold to Bernard F Gimbel 65 and became a part of the New York division of Gimbels later Manhattan Mall and a sky bridge across 33rd Street connected the second floors of both flagship buildings 67 In the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street the facade of Saks 34th Street is shown in a scene that focuses on the Gimbel s flagship store Branch locations were opened around the greater New York area The store closed in 1965 citing poor layouts no escalators a confused identity and outdated facade 65 After Gimbels decided to close the division the first floor of the building was used as a Christmas season annex for Gimbel s before being sold to the E J Korvettes chain 68 69 After the demise of the Korvette s chain the building was remodeled into the Herald Center in 1985 As of 2016 update the primary tenant is H amp M following another remodel 70 Beverly Hills Edit Main article Saks Fifth Avenue store building Beverly Hills The Saks Fifth Avenue store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills California was designed by the architectural firm Parkinson and Parkinson with interiors by Paul R Williams 71 72 The store opened in 1938 73 The store was immediately successful upon opening and it would subsequently expand to almost 74 000 square feet 6 900 m2 and employ 500 people 74 Williams created an interior reminiscent of his designs for luxurious private residences with rooms lit by indirect lamps and footlights focused on the clothes 71 New departments for furs corsets gifts and debutante dresses were added in the 1940 expansion 74 Gallery Edit The 1996 2007 logo Saks Fifth Avenue in Santa Fe Mall in Mexico City Saks at the North Star Mall in San Antonio Texas Saks Fifth Avenue at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta GeorgiaReferences Edit President of Saks Steps Down The New York Times Retrieved on April 3 2015 Patino Alexander October 16 2014 Saks Fifth Avenue Opens Its 40th Store in Sarasota FL Saks POV Archived from the original on November 17 2015 Retrieved December 20 2019 International Store Locations Archived from the original on September 5 2015 Retrieved December 20 2019 Kapner Suzanne October 25 2015 Lord amp Taylor Jumps Into Discount Game The Wall Street Journal Retrieved December 20 2019 Store Locations and Events Saks Inc Retrieved May 21 2014 About Us Saks Fifth Avenue Retrieved May 21 2014 Howland Daphne February 11 2020 Nordstrom Rack vet to lead Saks Off 5th Retail Dive Saks opened Off 5th in 1990 as a merchandise clearinghouse but has also expanded since then HBC s three distinct retail businesses Wilson Marianne February 22 2019 Up to 20 Saks Off 5th stores to close Chain Store Age Gardner Mark L What s in a Name A Brief History of Saks Fifth Avenue Archived from the original on February 12 2014 Retrieved January 27 2014 Mauranna G Lynn Is 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Transgender Ex Employee Vice News Retrieved January 13 2015 a b Reilly Nicholas January 9 2015 New York department store Saks defends discrimination against transgender staff Metro Retrieved January 13 2015 a b Zillman Claire March 5 2015 Saks settles discrimination suit with transgender employee after sparking outrage Fortune Retrieved October 8 2015 Fung Esther November 3 2017 Mall Landlord Taubman Sues Saks Fifth Avenue Over Puerto Rico Store The Wall Street Journal Retrieved December 8 2017 Diaz Marian November 2 2017 Propietarios de The Mall of San Juan demandan a Saks Fifth Avenue Owners of Mall of San Juan sue Saks Fifth Avenue El Nuevo Dia in Spanish Retrieved December 20 2019 a b c Gray Christopher April 16 1995 Streetscapes Saks the Giant Leap from Sixth Avenue to Fifth Avenue The New York Times Streetscapes Saks the giant leap from Sixth Avenue The New York Times April 16 1995 Herald Center former Saks 34th Street Wikimapia org Retailing Discounter on 34th Street Time 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