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Website. www .hbc .com. The Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, before evolving into a major fashion retailer, operating retail stores across both the United States and ...
Hudson's Bay ( French: La Baie d'Hudson ), also known as The Bay (French: La Baie ), is a Canadian department store chain. It is the flagship brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America as well as one of the oldest and largest continuously operating companies in the world. [ 7][ 8] Founded ...
Richard Alan Baker (born November 27, 1965) [ 1] is an American business executive. He is the Governor, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) [ 3] and executive chairman of each of HBC's eight portfolio companies. [ 4] He is also the owner of National Realty and Development Corp. (NRDC), [ 5] a US-based private real estate ...
Bonnie Brooks CM (born 1953) is a Canadian department store executive who is former vice-chairman of Hudson's Bay Company, having formerly served as president and CEO of its department store arm Hudson's Bay.
Hudson's Bay point blanket. A Hudson's Bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in British North America, now Canada and the United States, from 1779 to present. [ 1] The blankets were typically traded to First Nations in exchange for beaver pelts as an important part of the North American fur trade.
1936. York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Hayes River, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) south-southeast of Churchill . York Factory was one of the first fur-trading posts established by the HBC ...
Hudson's Bay Rewards. Hudson's Bay Rewards (known as HBC Rewards before February 2013) is a loyalty program where customers earn points for purchases at Hudson's Bay stores and thebay.com in Canada . [1] [2] [3] Every 1000 points earned can be redeemed as $5 towards a purchase. Points can also be donated, gifted, or converted to RBC Avion points.
1871. The trade center Fort Colvile (also Fort Colville [1]) was built by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Kettle Falls on the Columbia River in 1825 and operated in the Columbia fur district of the company. Named for Andrew Colvile, [2] a London governor of the HBC, the fort was a few miles west of the present site of Colville, Washington.