Nordstrom will start advertising in Canada this fall, one year before its first Canadian store opens in Calgary. Nordstrom has hired advertising agency DDB.
Prices in Canada's Nordstrom stores will be higher than those in its American stores. This can be attributed partly to our higher duties and taxes on imports, not to mention our higher fuel costs, labour costs and rent. Nordstrom says, however,...
June 5 2012 UPDATE: Nordstrom's Canadian president, Karen McKibbin, says Nordstrom's Canadian website will not initially include online shopping. This may change at a later date.
Nordstrom has launched its Canadian website in anticipation of its Canadian store openings. The website's...
We're posting images and updates of Ottawa's Rideau Centre. It will be Canada's first mall to include both Nordstrom and La Maison Simons as anchor stores. Across Rideau Street and connected by second-level pedway is a 335,000 square foot Hudson's Bay store that will be renovated...
Nordstrom has announced it is building a 188,000 square foot store at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre. Though not large compared to some existing Nordstrom stores, it will actually be one of the largest new Nordstrom stores to open in years.Â
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British Footwear retailer Kurt Geiger has just signed a deal with Nordstrom. A source at Nordstrom says they expect Kurt Geiger footwear to also be sold in Canada but could not provide further details.
Kurt Geiger shops carry both private-label and designer brand...
Today the exterior of Vancouver's former Downtown Sears store will start to be dismantled for the renovation and arrival of Nordstrom, as we previously reported, as well as for offices above.
The building's exterior panelling will be removed using an electric crane on...
Some readers express concern that Canada's Nordstrom stores will be 'smaller than American stores' and that Canada's Nordstrom will be a 'poor cousin' to American stores. Our Nordstrom insider says 'not so'.
So far Nordstrom has signed leases for four Canadian locations....
Nordstrom and La Maison Simons could open at Winnipeg's Polo Park Shopping Centre. A Winnipeg-based retail insider (who is a commercial real estate broker) informs us that Polo Park landlord Cadillac Fairview, along with Winnipeg-based real estate company Shindico,...
Retail Insider is meeting with a Target Canada insider tomorrow to discuss Target's Canadian stores. We apologize for this brief, relatively uninformative article but our research this week is taking more time than we expected.
We'll be getting an update...