- Bowring Brothers
Infobox_Company
company_name = Bowring Brothers Limited
company_
company_type = Private
foundation =1811
location =St. John's, Newfoundland
key_people = Charles T. Bowring Edward Bowring Henry Bowring John Bowring
num_employees =
industry =Shipping Retail
products = Historical: Shipowners, fish and general merchants, steamship agents Present: Gifts andhome decor
revenue = | homepage = [http://www.bowring.com/ www.bowring.com]Bowring Brothers Limited (or simply Bowring) is currently an operator of
retail stores, mostly focused on gifts and home decor, throughout Canada.Bowring was formed in
1811 as a private company byBenjamin Bowring and his family, who had just moved to St. John's, Newfoundland. Benjamin Bowring, an Englishclockmaker , set up shop in that business, while his wife established adry goods store which evolved into a largedepartment store on Water Street. [http://www.bowring.com/about.asp Bowring - About] ]Bowring Brothers was later engaged as a shipowner, fish and general merchant, and steamship agent. From
1811 to date Bowring Brothers has been continuouslyFact|date=August 2008 engaged in Newfoundland's commerce, and at its peak the company had various operations on a global scale.After
World War II , the company focused on itsretail business, including the department store in St. John's and a chain of gift shops inshopping mall s across Canada. The Bowring family sold the chain to new owners in the late 1980s or early 1990s, following which the St. John's store closed, leaving Bowring without any retail presence in the province for over a decade. In the early 2000s, Bowring began to shift its energy towards a series of "home stores" inpower centre s across Canada, currently numbering 34 - including one in St. John's - but continues to operate 31 mall stores in larger centres.The company no longer has any connection to the Bowring family; it remains privately-held, now by an undetermined Canadian family.
ee also
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Bowring Park (St. John's) , a park built on land donated by the company
*Bowring Downtown Centre , an office complex redeveloped from the former Bowring department store in St. John'sReferences
External links
* [http://www.bowring.com/ Bowring]
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