Galeria Inno

Belgian department store chain

INNO

Industry	Retail
Genre	Department store
Number of locations	16^[1]
Area served	Belgium^[1]
Owner	Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof^[2]
Website	www.inno.be/nl/home

INNO, formerly branded Galeria Inno, is a Belgian department store chain that operates 16 stores.^[3] It is a subsidiary of German Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof.^[2]

History

It was founded in 1897 in Brussels as A l'Innovation. INNO was a founder and has remained member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1928 to 2001. Emile Bernheim has been 4 times the president of the Association in 1931, 1935, 1950, 1960.^[4]

Since 2001, the chain has been owned by the Galeria Kaufhof group, which was subsequently acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 2015.^[5]

As of February 2023, INNO's current owner, Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, supposedly plans to spin-off and sell the Belgian INNO branch as part of its own insolvency proceedings.^[2]

Locations

INNO operates overall 16 department stores throughout Belgium, of which four are located in Brussels: Uccle, Bruxelles (Louise), Bruxelles (Rue Neuve), Woluwe.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c inno.be - Stores retrieved 12 March 2023
^ ^a ^b ^c handelsblatt.com (German) 3 February 2023
^ "Entreprise achetez en ligne" [Company buy online]. Galeria Inno (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
^ iads.org - Presidents
^ "HBC-Logo ziert jetzt das Kölner HBC Europe Service-Center". Galeria Kaufhof (in German). 2017-07-13. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2017-07-31.