Recently, the impact of the new crown epidemic on the UK retail industry has continued.

According to people familiar with the matter, the old British luxury department store chain Selfridges (Selfridges) will be sold to a joint buyer consisting of a Thai retailer and an Austrian real estate company. The transaction value is about 4 billion pounds (about 34 billion yuan). ).

Selfridges is one of the oldest luxury department stores in London, England, founded in 1909.

The second largest department store in the UK has more than 10,000 employees worldwide and has branches in major cities in countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands and Canada. Its flagship store on Oxford Street in London has become a tourist destination for tourists from all over the world. One of the destinations.

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