Arnotts (Scottish department store)

This article is about the defunct Glasgow department store. For the Dublin department store, see Arnotts (Irish department store).
Arnotts
Company typePrivate company
IndustryRetail
GenreDepartment store
Founded1850 (1850)
FoundersJohn Arnott
Defunct1936 (1936)
HeadquartersJamaica Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Area served
Glasgow

Arnotts was a department store in Glasgow, Scotland. Established as a drapery shop in 1850, the business became a department store in the 1870s. In 1936 it was bought by the company that became House of Fraser, who used the Arnotts brand for other acquisitions from the 1970s onwards.

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