Английская Википедия:ABC (Lebanon)
ABC (legal name: ABC s.a.l. alias ABC Group, LinkedIn: ABC Lebanon), is a company operating ABC-branded shopping malls and department stores, as well as individual boutiques of fashion brands, in Lebanon with a total gross leasable area of Шаблон:Cvt.[1]
The business dates back to 1936 with the opening of ABC at Bab Idriss Square, central Beirut, Шаблон:Cvt in size, followed by ABC Bab Borj at Шаблон:Cvt in 1940, and ABC Hamra Шаблон:Cvt in 1948.[1]
Robert Fadel served as Chairman & CEO from 2009 to 2017, and remains a member of the board of directors. The Harvard Business School case “From Beirut with Love” summarized his experience as head of ABC, his family business.[2]
Innovations
ABC claims many innovations in Lebanese and Middle Eastern retail, such as fixed prices (when bargaining was the tradition), employing women in its sales force, advertising, opening the Middle East's first "international standard" open-air mall, banning smoking, implementing waste management, opening the largest private photovoltaic plant in Lebanon and introducing magnetic gift cards.[1]
Locations
| Name | Opened | Closed | Shopping center | ABC Dept. Store | Mall stores | Movie theater (screens) | Parking spaces | Cafés and restaurants | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross leasable area | Built-up area | Gross leasable area | Built-up area | ||||||||
| ABC Verdun | 2017 | open | 50,000 | 155,500 | 6,463 | 10,600 | 200+ | 11 | 1,700 | 16 | |
| ABC Achrafieh | 2003 | open | 40,000 | 126,500 | 7,800 | 13,500 | 105 | 7 | 1,200 | 21 | |
| ABC Dbayeh | 1979 | open | 25,280 | 44,250 | 24,157 | 44,275 | 285 | 8 | 12 (mall), 13 (dept. store) | ||
| ABC Furn El Chebbak | 1994 | closed | |||||||||
| ABC Kaslik | 1978 | closed | |||||||||
| ABC Zahlé | 1973 | now outlet | 415 | ||||||||
| ABC Hamra | 1948 | now outlet | 415 | ||||||||
| ABC Bab Borj | 1940 | closed | 350 | ||||||||
| ABC Bab Idriss | 1936 | closed | 580 | ||||||||
| ABC Tripoli (outlet) | closed | ||||||||||
Dbayeh
In 1979 ABC opened what it claims to be the first true modern department store in the Middle East, in Dbayeh,[1] a city on the Mediterranean Sea between Beirut and Jounieh. It was Шаблон:Cvt in size. In 2009 it was expanded to a size of Шаблон:Cvt.[1] At that time New York firm nARCHITECTS designed, based on the company's logo, a laser cut aluminum screen enveloping the Шаблон:Cvt existing building, and inverse cut-outs to adorn the facades of the Шаблон:Cvt addition.[3][4][5]
Achrafieh
In 2003, ABC opened its Шаблон:Cvt flagship shopping center including a Шаблон:Cvt ABC department store within it, the first international-standard open-air mall in Lebanon, in the upmarket central Achrafieh neighborhood.[1]
In 2017, agency KKD completed a redesign of the department store's interior.[6]
In November 2023 during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war Palestinian keffiyehs were prohibited to be worn at the mall.[7]
Verdun
In 2017, ABC opened its third mall in Verdun, southern Beirut, Шаблон:Cvt in size. ABC Verdun is home to 200 shops and a Шаблон:Cvt ABC Department Store. It measures Шаблон:Cvt and was developed on an ex-property of the Church in a joint venture with Bahaa Hariri, the Group of one of the sons of ex-Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, murdered in 2005, whose other son Saad Hariri also served as Prime Minister. ABC Group holds 40% of the capital and operates the mall.[8]
The architectural design by Seattle-based CalissonRTKL is adapted to the climate, which avoids having to air-condition or heat the common areas: a large canopy houses the roof terrace where the restaurants and the garden are located. Below, the corridors are protected from rain but the air circulates and is refreshed naturally.[8]
Other stores
Other former ABC stores that are now closed include ABC at Bab Idriss Square (opened 1936), ABC Bab Borj (opened 1940), ABC Hamra (opened 1948, now an outlet store), ABC Zahlé (opened 1973, now an outlet store), ABC Kaslik (opened 1978) and ABC Furn El Chebbak (opened 1994).
ABC also operates 3 outlet stores: Tripoli (Lebanon), Zahlé, and in Beirut in the Hamra district. It operates standalone boutiques in its malls for three brands: Calvin Klein, Ted Baker and Tommy Hilfiger.[9]
In 2020 ABC launched an e-commerce site.[1]
External links
References
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