Saks Fifth Avenue
Type	Subsidiary of Saks Incorporated
Founded	1898 New York City, New York, USA
Headquarters	New York City, New York, USA
Industry	Retail
Products	Clothing, footwear, handbags, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
Website	saksfifthavenue.com

Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New York. Saks is headquartered in New York City. Image File history File links SaksFifthAvenueA.svg‎ Although this image is subject to copyright, I, Vargklo (talk Â· contribs), feel that its use in Saks Fifth Avenue is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It is being used for informational purposes only; It is the logo of a... A subsidiary, in business, is an entity that is controlled by another entity. ... Saks Incorporated (NYSE: SKS) is an operator of department stores in the United States. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... New York, New York redirects here. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Saks Incorporated (NYSE: SKS) is an operator of department stores in the United States. ... Categories: Stub | Retail companies of the United States ... Bergdorf Goodman is a major luxury goods department store based in Midtown, Manhattan in New York City. ... Barneys New York is a chain of upscale department stores. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE) consists of 54 Saks Fifth Avenue stores, 49 Saks Off 5th stores, 62 Club Libby Lu specialty stores, and saks.com.

History

Saks Fifth Avenue logo used until 2007. The "new" replacement logo is actually a modification of an older logo Saks used until the mid-1990s.

Saks Fifth Avenue is the successor of a business founded by Andrew Saks in 1867 and incorporated in New York in 1902 as Saks & Company. In 1923 Saks & Co. merged with Gimbels Brothers, Inc., operating as a separate autonomous subsidiary. In 1924, Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel opened Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. Image File history File links Sakslogo. ... Image File history File links Sakslogo. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... New York, New York redirects here. ...

When Adam Gimbel became President of Saks Fifth Avenue in 1926, the company took on national aspirations. The very first branch store opened in 1926 in the city of Palm Beach, Florida as a resort store, followed by a Southampton resort store in 1928. The first full-line year-round Saks store was 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, Mount Stowe and Newport. More full-line stores followed with Detroit in 1940, Pittsburgh 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. More expansion followed in the 1960s. Being largely seasonal, downtown Palm Beachs streets are virtually vacant in the summer. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Location in Miami-Dade and the state of Florida. ... “Beverly Hills” redirects here. ... “San Francisco” redirects here. ...

BATUS Inc. acquired Gimbel Bros., Inc. and its Saks Fifth Avenue subsidiary in 1973. In 1990, BATUS sold Saks to Investcorp S.A., which after investing in the company and weathering the early 1990s recession took Saks public in 1996 as Saks Holdings, Inc. In 1998, Saks Holdings Inc. was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc. Upon closing of the acquisition, Proffitt's changed its name to Saks Incorporated. BATUS Inc. ... Investcorp is a leading provider and manager of alternative investment products, serving high-net-worth private and institutional clients. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Saks Incorporated (NYSE: SKS) is an operator of department stores in the United States. ...

In August 2007 the Post Office began an experimental program selling the plus Zip Code extension to businesses. The first company to do this was Saks Fifth Avenue which received the zip code of 10022-SHOE for the eighth floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) store.^[1] Today, the New York flagship store accounts for 20% of the entire chain's annual revenue. Mr. ... Street sign at corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street Fifth Avenue, early morning photograph, looking south from Thirty-eighth Street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...

Trivia and Pop Culture

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The flagship Saks Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan.

• In the film Clueless, Saks was mentioned as one of Cher and Dionne's favorite department stores.
• Actress Winona Ryder was caught shoplifting at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, California, in 2005.
• In Shrek 2's Kingdom of Far Far Away, it is parodied as Saxon Fifth Avenue.
• In the 2005 film adaptation of Steve Martin's novella Shopgirl, Claire Danes plays Mirabelle Buttersfield, an aspiring artist and sales associate at the infrequently visited gloves counter of the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue. Interestingly this was changed for the film; in the novella, Mirabelle works for Neiman Marcus.
• In the 2004 movie Shall We Dance?, Susan Sarandon's character Beverly Clark works at Saks Fifth Avenue.
• In the episode of the Simpsons when Lisa went shopping, she went to "Saks Fifth Grade."
• In an episode of Seinfeld, Helen Seinfeld obtains a gift very valuable in the eyes of Cosmo Kramer, who asks her the source of the item. Helen replies "Saks Fifth Avenue in Miami," upon which Kramer says, "I'll remember that the next time I'm in Florida." Jerry responds sarcastically, saying, "Or if you're ever in Fifth Avenue here in the city."
• In the 1986 Gene Wilder movie, "Haunted Honeymoon", Dom Deluise's character is disparaging about the activities and supposed humor of his cross dressing nephew by stating "Yes. And, when the police dragged him out of the ladies' room at Saks Fifth Avenue, that was fun!"
• In the popular rock opera Rent, Saks is mentioned in the song "Christmas Bells", in the line, "Christmas Bells are ringing, Christmas bells are ringing, Christmas bells are singing on t.v., at Saks!"
• Saks Fifth Avenue also has a location in Saudi Arabia, making it an international store, such as Sears (Mexico and Canada).
• In the popular American sitcom 'Friends' in the Series 1 episode 'The One with all the Poker', after sending out resumes to many different companies requesting jobs/interviews, Rachel Green gets offered an interview at Saks Fifth Avenue, to which Phoebe Buffay replies "It's like the Mothership is calling you home!"
• The daughter of founder Andrew Saks, Leila Saks Meyer (1886 - 1957), survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. She and her husband Edgar J. Meyer had returned from Europe on the ship to attend Andrew Saks' funeral.

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References

External links

• Saks Fifth Avenue Official website