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Andrew Saks (June 5, 1847 – April 8, 1912) [1] was an American businessman known as the founder of department store Saks Fifth Avenue . Biography. Saks was born to a German Jewish family, in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Helena and William Saks (born 1810 or -11, Kingdom of Bavaria ). [2] .
Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; colloquially Saks) is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street shopping district of Washington, D.C. in 1867.
- 1867 (156 years ago)
- Retail
Saks opened a large department store in 1902 in New York City's Herald Square on 34th Street and Broadway (at 1293–1311 Broadway).: 2 Andrew Saks ran the New York store as a family affair with his brother Isadore, and his sons Horace and William. Andrew Saks died in 1912 and his son Horace took over the company's management.
- December 29, 1984
- Saks Fifth Avenue
- 611 and 623 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
Apr 16, 1995 · Horace's father, Andrew Saks, a native of Baltimore, opened his first shop in Washington in 1867 and built an operation that spread to other cities and involved silent ownership of other stores.
Jul 30, 2013 · July 30, 2013, 12:02am. Since its inception, Saks Fifth Avenue has undergone many changes in ownership, yet it’s managed to retain an image that is synonymous with both luxury and fashion....
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Oct 3, 2018 · Andrew Saks first came to Indianapolis in the fall of 1896 when “Saks & Co.,” the business partnership with his brother Isador, purchased the Model Clothing Company. By that time, Saks & Co had stores in Norfolk, Virginia and New York in addition to the first ones in Washington D. C. and Richmond, Virginia.
Aug 19, 2004 · Andrew Saks, President and one of the founders of Saks & Co., the dry goods house, died yesterday morning in his apartment at Sherry's. Death followed a long illness. Mr. Saks is survived by Mrs. Saks, by his two sons, William A. Saks and Horace Saks, and by his daughter, Mrs. Edgar J. Meyer. Andrew Saks was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1847.
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