Remnants of Simpsons
While the Simpsons chain ceased to exist in 1991, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to accept old Simpsons credit cards in its Bay and Zellers stores until the HBC credit card was launched in 2001.
The former Simpsons headquarters now serve as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The Bay's largest and flagship store on Queen Street West in Toronto is a former Simpsons store. The high-end restaurant at this location, the Arcadian Court, which opened under Simpsons is still in operation today. The former Simpsons downtown store in Toronto remains the largest of all department stores in Canada.
The Simpsons stores that didn't have Bay stores around them have survived under the banner "the Bay". All Simpsons stores that already had a Bay store next to them have been closed with either a new Sears store taking over the lease or the existing Bay store moving into the space.
In Quebec, there were five Simpson stores. Three of them - Anjou, Pointe-Claire and Laval - are now "la Baie" stores. The two others, in downtown Montreal and St-Bruno, were closed due to the presence of la Baie stores near them. La Baie in St-Bruno did however relocate to where Simpson was.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office database reports that the trademark to the name "Simpsons" was owned by Sears Canada from 2001 to 2008. It was purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company in 2001, some ten years after the name was officially retired. In 2008, Sears Canada transferred all of its trademarks (including the Simpsons trademark) to 1373639 Alberta Ltd., which appears to be a shell company of Sears Canada.
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