Holt Renfrew Ogilvy

This article is about the co-branded Holt Renfrew–Ogilvy location in Montreal. For the department store chain, see Holt Renfrew. For the defunct department store in Ottawa, see Ogilvy's.

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Holt Renfrew Ogilvy
FormerlyOgilvy (1866–2019)
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
GenreDepartment store
Founded1866; 158 years ago (1866)
FounderJames Angus Ogilvy
Headquarters1307 Saint Catherine Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Products
  • Clothing
  • accessories
  • footwear
  • fragrances
  • jewellery
  • beauty products
OwnerWeston family (2010–present)
WebsiteHolt Renfrew Ogilvy

Holt Renfrew Ogilvy, formerly and still colloquially Ogilvy (French: La Maison Ogilvy), is a Canadian department store located on Saint Catherine Street West in the downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has been owned by the Selfridges Group, which itself is owned by British-Canadian businessman Galen Weston, since 2011.[1] Through this ownership, it is affiliated with the Canadian department store Holt Renfrew and the European department stores Arnotts, Brown Thomas, de Bijenkorf, and Selfridges. The store is the only one of four major west-end retailers in Montreal that still operates with its original name, and is nicknamed the "grande dame of Saint Catherine Street".[2]

Ogilvy originated as a dry goods store, and was founded in 1866 by James Angus Ogilvy. The store moved into its present-day location on the corner of Saint Catherine Street West and Rue de la Montagne in 1912, and was considered a full-line department store by 1920. It now houses several departments of store-within-a-store designs for luxury goods brands including Burberry, Hermes, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Dior. The store was rebranded to Holt Renfrew Ogilvy in 2019, and completed a significant renovation and expansion in 2020 through a collaboration between Jeffrey Hutchinson & Associates, Martin Brûlé Studio, Laplace, Gensler & Lemay; it provides for the consolidation of the existing Holt Renfrew on Sherbrooke Street West into the larger, 23,000-square-metre (250,000 sq ft) Ogilvy building.[3]

  1. ^ Marotte, Bertrand (29 July 2011). "Selfridges to buy Ogilvy department store". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Ogilvy, the grande dame of rue Sainte-Catherine". mixtemagazine.ca. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Retail Meets Hospitality at Montreal's Iconic Maison Ogilvy". Azure Magazine. 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2022-08-30.