Bretton's

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brettons was a high-end department store in Canada from 1985 to 1996.

The first two Brettons stores were opened in Ottawa in 1985 by the parent company, Comark.

Brettons sold clothing and cosmetics, in order to focus on high-margin, high-turn merchandise. Their stores were typically 60,000 square feet (6,000 m²), smaller than a typical department store.

Comark aimed to establish 40 to 50 branches of Brettons, but was blocked by existing department stores who generally had clauses in their shopping centre leases allowing them to approve or reject leases to other stores.

Brettons is reported to have made a classic "outsider's mistake": it sent large fur boots to Vancouver, which receives little snow, and where a significant part of the population is of Asian origin with smaller foot sizes.