British Home Stores

British Home Stores (BHS) is a department store retailer that primarily sells clothing and household items. It was established as a variety store in 1928 by a group of American entrepreneurs, and grew to be one of the UK's largest department store chains which traded until 2016.

In May 2000, the retailer was purchased by Sir Philip Green and taken private. The company later became part of Green's Arcadia Group in 2009. In March 2015, the retailer was sold to the Retail Acquisitions Ltd consortium for the nominal sum of £1, following sustained losses. In April 2016, British Home Stores entered administration, and the final 22 UK stores closed on 28 August 2016.

In September 2016, BHS.com was relaunched for the UK market by the Al Maya Group, based in Qatar (now based in Dubai), who had purchased the British Home Stores intellectual property from the administrators, and continued to operate physical BHS stores across the Middle East, Africa and other parts of Europe, for a time. In June 2018, Al Maya Group closed BHS.com to focus on other interests. In October 2018, BHS.com was relaunched again by the Manchester-based firm Litecraft Group Ltd, using the BHS brand under license from Al Maya Group, to mainly sell their range of lighting products.

As of June 2025, Al Maya Group operates one final surviving physical British Home Stores location at the Landmark Mall in Doha, Qatar.