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Early-19th-century U.S. fur trade district in North America
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| March 24 2025 | Liquidation sales commence for Hudson's Bay store closures across Canada. |
| 2024 | Following HBC's bankruptcy challenges and restructuring, Zellers brand potentially reduced to 6 locations in Ontario and Quebec, putting its continuance into question. |
| 2024 | HBC spun off its Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Off 5th stores into a separate Saks Global holding company. |
| December 2024 | Hudson's Bay Company finalized the purchase of Neiman Marcus Group for $2.7 billion, creating Saks Global and bringing together multiple luxury retail brands including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Saks Off 5th. |
| July 4 2024 | Hudson's Bay Company announced its acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group for $2.65 billion, successfully concluding long-standing negotiations between the two companies. |
| 2023 | Hudson's Bay officially stops selling animal fur products. |
| August 2022 | Hudson's Bay Company announced plans to revive the Zellers brand through online shopping and physical locations within Hudson's Bay stores across Canada in 2023. |
| March 16 2022 | HBC and Sycamore Partners announced they were preparing bids to buy Kohl's department store chain. |
| 2021 | Lululemon was announced to replace HBC as Canada's Olympic team outfitter starting with the 2022 Winter Olympics. |
| March 2020 | Richard Baker and a group of shareholders took Hudson's Bay Company private, delisting it from the Toronto Stock Exchange. |
| March 3 2020 | Company delisted from Toronto Stock Exchange, with Richard A. Baker replacing Helena Foulkes as CEO. |
| February 2020 | Shareholders vote in favor of becoming a private company. |
| January 2020 | The two remaining Zellers stores owned by Hudson's Bay Company were closed. |
| December 2019 | Sold remaining stores in the Netherlands, completing European exit. |
| August 2019 | HBC sells Gilt Groupe to Rue La La, sells remaining Galeria Kaufhof shares to Signa Holding, and sells Lord & Taylor to Le Tote for $75 million. |
| August 2019 | HBC spun off most of its European operations by August 2019. |
| August 19 2019 | Catalyst Capital Group Inc. acquires enough shares to block the privatization plan. |
| June 2019 | HBC announced its intent to sell the remaining 49.99 percent of Galeria Kaufhof and Galeria Inno shares to Austrian firm Signa Holding, gaining US$1.5 billion from the real estate sale. |
| June 2019 | A consortium led by Richard Baker announces plans to take the company private, owning over 50% of HBC shares. |
| February 2019 | HBC announced the complete phase-out of all 37 Home Outfitters locations. |
| 2018 | Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt merged as part of a spin-off. |
| 2018 | HBC sold the flagship Lord & Taylor store building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to WeWork Property Advisors for $850 million, with WeWork set to occupy the uppermost floors and Lord & Taylor retaining flagship space. |
| April 1 2018 | HBC discloses a major data breach affecting over five million credit and debit cards used in Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, and Lord & Taylor stores. |
| 2017 | HBC considered purchasing Neiman Marcus Group Inc., but did not proceed with the acquisition. |
| 2017 | Hudson's Bay Company made an initial takeover overture to Macy's, which was not completed. |
| November 1 2017 | HBC received an unsolicited offer from Austrian firm Signa Holding for Kaufhof and other real estate, valued at approximately 3 billion euros. |
| 2016 | HBC rebranded three Home Outfitters locations in Winnipeg under the Hudson's Bay Home banner as a pilot project. |
| May 2016 | HBC expands into the Netherlands by taking over 20 former Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) sites and opens five Saks Off Fifth stores in Germany. |
| January 2016 | HBC acquires online flash sales site Gilt Groupe for US$250 million to expand digital presence. |
| 2015 | Target Canada chain folded, with leases returned to landlords or re-sold to other retailers. |
| September 2015 | Hudson's Bay Company acquired the German department store chain Galeria Kaufhof and its Belgian subsidiary, Galeria Inno from Metro Group. |
| 2014 | StarKid Productions performed 'The Trail to Oregon!' musical in Chicago, based on The Oregon Trail video game, with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and a book by Jeff Blim, Nick Lang, and Matt Lang. The performance was later posted to YouTube. |
| October 2014 | Home Outfitters reached its peak of 69 retail locations. |
| July 2014 | Hudson's Bay announced the integration of Home Outfitters into its Hudson's Bay retail division and began closing stores. |
| November 3 2013 | The merger with Saks, Inc. was completed, expanding Hudson's Bay Company's retail portfolio. |
| July 29 2013 | Hudson's Bay Company announced the acquisition of Saks, Inc. for US$2.9 billion at $16 per share. |
| January 2013 | Confirmed that three Zellers locations would remain open, re-purposed as discount department stores for The Bay and Home Outfitters. |
| 2012 | Hudson's Bay Trading Company (NRDC holding company) was dissolved in early 2012. |
| 2012 | HBC sold the Fields retail chain to a private firm. |
| January 24 2012 | Richard Baker dissolved Hudson's Bay Trading Company and announced that HBC would operate the Lord & Taylor chain. At this time, Bonnie Brooks was president, Baker was governor and CEO, and Donald Watros was chief operating officer. |
| September 2011 | Hudson's Bay Company announced the sale of the majority of Zellers leases for $1.825 billion to Target Corporation, with plans to close all remaining Zellers locations by early 2013. |
| April 13 2010 | Timeless Media Group (TMG) released the complete Oregon Trail television series on six DVDs in the USA, comprising 14 episodes including the feature-length pilot. |
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