Harrods
 Harrods  (Business)   | |
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| London luxury department store |
Harrods is a luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, formerly owned by Mohamed Al-Fayed.
It is now owned by the state of Qatar.[1]
The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011.[2]
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has 330 departments covering one million square feet (90,000 m2) of retail space.
The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique, which is Latin for "all things for all people, everywhere".[3]
Memorials
Since the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed, Mohamed Al-Fayed's son, two memorials commissioned by Al-Fayed have been erected inside Harrods to the couple. The first, located at the base of the Egyptian Escalator, was unveiled on 12 April 1998, consisting of photographs of the two behind a pyramid-shaped display that holds a wine glass smudged with lipstick from Diana's last dinner as well as what is described as an engagement ring Dodi purchased the day before they died.[4]
The second memorial, unveiled in 2005 and located by the escalator at door three is entitled Innocent Victims, a bronze statue of the two dancing on a beach beneath the wings of an albatross, a bird said to symbolise the "Holy Spirit".[5] The sculpture was created by William Mitchell, a close friend of Al-Fayed and artistic design advisor to Harrods for 40 years. Al-Fayed said he wanted to keep the pair's "spirit alive" through the statue.[6]
Sanctions busting
Asma al-Assad, the wife of the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, used an alias to shop at Harrods despite economic sanctions imposed by the European Union that froze funds belonging to her and her husband.[7]
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References
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-harrods-idUSTRE6470V520100509
- ↑ "La Nación newspaper, Buenos Aires, Harrods, the return of an icon of Buenos Aires, April 2010"
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/10103783
- ↑ "Getting Up To Snuff In London"
- ↑ "Harrods unveils Diana, Dodi statue"
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4204364.stm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120323002529/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/03/20/asma-al-assad-the-real-dictator---emails-harrods-shopping
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