Debenhams - Stores

Stores

As of October 2012, the company operates 167 stores (including 13 "Desire by Debenhams" stores) covering 12m sq.feet. of retail space across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It also has 61 franchise stores operating in other countries, including the Philippines. Debenhams opened a 27,000 sq.m. store in Karachi, Pakistan, in July 2012.

Debenhams occupies the most sites of any of the traditional department store groups in the UK. The majority of the original trading names of the stores, in each of their respective locations, were replaced with the "Debenhams" name during the 1970s. All department stores in the group now trade as "Debenhams" except Browns in Chester. New stores are usually located within wider town and regional shopping centre developments. Stores amalgamated into the group include:

• Allders (Portsmouth)
• Bobbys (Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Exeter, Torquay etc.)
• Browns of Chester (Bangor, Chester)
• Curl Brothers (Norwich)
• Elliston & Cavell (Oxford)
• Griffin & Spalding (Nottingham)
• Handleys (Southsea)
• Jermyns (Kings Lynn)
• Jones (Bristol)
• Edwin Jones (Southampton)
• Kennards (Croydon)
• Lewis's (Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent)
• J. Newhouse (Middlesbrough)
• Marshall & Snelgrove (Oxford Street, London, etc.)
• Owen Owen (Crawley)
• Pauldens (Manchester, Sheffield)
• Pendleburys (Wigan)
• Mathias Robinson (Leeds, Stockton-on-Tees)
• Spooners (Plymouth)
• Thornton Varley (Kingston-upon-Hull)