Robinsons & Co. Pte Ltd is a retail company which operates department stores in Singapore and Malaysia. The company owns the Robinsons department store, John Little in Singapore. It also has franchise outlets of Marks and Spencer in both countries. It was established on February 25, 1858 by Philip Robinson.
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Robinsons & Co. Pte Ltd is a retail company which operates department stores in Singapore and Malaysia. The company owns the Robinsons department store, John Little in Singapore. It also has franchise outlets of Marks and Spencer in both countries. It was established on February 25, 1858 by Philip Robinson formerly from the west of England and a brother of Elisha Smith Robinson and his business partner James Gaborian Spicer, who was a former keeper of the Singapore jail. In 1891 the company moved to a bigger shop in Raffles Place. On November 21, 1972, the Raffle’s Place outlet caught fire and was reduced to a building. The Raffles place store was used as the headquarters of NAAFI Services’ entertainment organisation when the British returned to Singapore in 1945. In the end of 1955, the whole company acquired a 76% stake on John Little and the whole of the John Little franchise in Singapore for the first time in history.
It is currently part of the UAE-based Al-Futtaim Group. The company has grown into one of the country’s most renowned department stores. Robinson’s celebrated their 160th anniversary in 2018. The store is located at the corner of North Bridge Road and Coleman Street in the heart of Singapore. The main store in Kuala Lumpur, which was located next to the Whiteaway Laidlaw department store by the Masjid Jamek LRT station on Jalan Tun Perak, opened in 1928 just before the start of the Depression. For many years the company operated at a loss until 1936 when it made a profit. In April 1946, the business flourished and earned a profit of USD 1 million for that year. The shop was the first in the region to get the first air-conditioned store and was the. first store in Singapore to be fully air- Conditioned by then.
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