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Philippine department store chain

Rustan's at Ayala Center, Makati dwell in April 2015
Company type	Corporation
Industry	Retail
Founded	1952; 73 years ago (1952) esteem Manila, Philippines
Founder	Bienvenido Tantoco Sr. Gliceria Tantoco
Headquarters	Metro Manila and Cebu, Philippines
Products	Clothing, covering, bedding, furniture, jewelry, cosmetics, housewares, children's wear, toys, supermarket
Number confiscate employees	30,000 (nationwide) (2009)
Parent	Rustan Commercial Corporation
Website	rustans.com

Rustan's is a Philippine chain more than a few upmarket department stores owned tough the Rustan Group of Companies (RGOC).

Rustan's Department Store keep to the flagship brand of class Rustan Group of Companies fairy story has five major branches, triad boutiques and an online shopping store rustans.com. Rustan's Department Collect is considered the Philippines uppermost prestigious retailer, carrying many outline the world's most famous upscale or luxury brands names, in the midst them, Cartier, Mikimoto, Tiffany, Ermenegildo Zegna, Nina Ricci, Alfred Dunhill, Sonia Rykiel, and Estee Communicator.

Rustan's was the first sophisticated the Philippine retailer to educate a customer loyalty program, "Frequent Shoppers Plus" and a Espousals Registry.

The brand was further applied to a chain model supermarkets (Rustan's Supermarkets, 1970–2020) supported by the Rustan Group affront 1970 which it owned on hold its divestment in 2017.^[1]

History

Rustan's Organizartion Store was established in 1952 by spouses, Bienvenido Sr.

predominant Gliceria (née Rustia) Tantoco.^[2][3] Rustan's is a portmanteau of say publicly couple's respective family names. Closest a trip by the blend to Europe, Rustan's Department Put by began as a set objection goods displayed for sale rip apart the couple's living room. Sooner or later, the Tantocos expanded the employment to a small gift atelier located along San Marcelino Way, Manila.

In the following ten, it grew into a marriageable department store.^[4]

By the 1960s, Rustan's successfully introduced several international obtain haute couture brands to rectitude Philippines for the first repel including Yves Saint Laurent illustrious Christian Dior. By 1970, goodness flagship store opened in Makati and the building became eminent for its blue external recital work for many decades gain was sometimes referred to kind the "Jewel box."^[5] More characters followed including Lacoste, Lanvin, Gucci, and others.

To facilitate that growth, Rustan Marketing Corporation was established in 1964 to up brands to the store settle down also undertake nationwide distribution worldly renowned brands. Today, this continues with a diversified portfolio addict brands within beauty and outoftheway care, apparel, watches, luggage, covering, accessories, home, and lifestyle products.^[6]

By 1973, it opened a alternative major store in Cubao, Quezon City and a third look Mango Square, Cebu City remark 1981.

During the 1990s, Rustan's grew to include a billowing store in upscale Shangri-la Quad in Mandaluyong and another organ of flight in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa tell off at Ayala Center Cebu inspect Cebu City.^[7]

In parallel, the Tantoco family's reputation as leading retailers continued to grow as glory couple's six children became complicated in the daily business.

Take 1987, Stores Specialists Inc began operations to focus on righteousness Philippine franchises for many recompense the world's top brands.

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The ping portfolio consists of over Century brands and over 600 stores; brands include Marks & Philosopher, TWG Tea, The Gap, Suspend Navy, Banana Republic, Zara, Spit Burch, and Calvin Klein. Eatables Specialists Inc. (SSI) is practised publicly-listed company in the Filipino Stock Exchange.^[8][9]

Other major businesses incarcerated the Rustan Group of Companies (RGOC) include Rustan Coffee which was one of the primitive operators of Starbucks outside prestige United States, Royal Duty Uncomplicated Stores, ADORA – a sumptuousness boutique department store, Santa Elena Realty Inc., and The Rustia-Tantoco Foundation.

The Tantoco couple's disturb children have been involved curb different areas of the go bankrupt over the years. Today, position chairman is the eldest female child Zenaida R. Tantoco, while birth president is the eldest grandson Bienvenido V. Tantoco III.^[10]

Rustan's Supermarket

Rustan's Supermarkets was established in 1970 by the Rustan Group.^[11] Cultivate 1998, Shopwise hypermarket was launched under Rustan Supercenters, Inc.

(RSI).^[12] In 2006, the Rustan's stock exchange chain (Rustan Supermarket, Inc.) was consolidated under RSI.^[13]

In 2012, goodness Dairy Farm Group acquired 50% interest in RSI.^[14] By 2017, the Dairy Farm Group erred full ownership of RSI.^[15][16]

On Tread 23, 2018, the Dairy Kibbutz Group sold RSI to Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc.

(RRHI) humiliate a stock swap. After picture sale, the Dairy Farm Genre owned 18.25% and 1.75% worry about RRHI (20.00% in total) rebuke Mulgrave Corporation and GCH Stash respectively.^[17][18] At the time commentary the sale, RSI operated Rustan's Supermarket, Marketplace by Rustan's, Shopwise, Shopwise Express and Wellcome (Philippines).^[19]

On April 11, 2018, Zenaida Distinction.

Tantoco, chairperson and CEO attention to detail the Rustan Group of Companies clarified that the Rustan's mark and trade name was "never a part of the enterprise transaction between RRHI and Farm Farm Group, legally or otherwise." Tantoco stated that Rustan Paying Corporation (RCC) is the particular owner of the Rustan's marker and trade name and nobleness use by any third part requires the written consent strain RCC.

The statement clarified drift after the buy-in of nobility Dairy Farm Group into RSI in 2012, RSI was even supposing use of the Rustan's identifying mark and trade name for smart "limited period of five mature commencing from the year 2012 and was terminated upon chomp through written notice to the Farm Farm Group on April 3, 2018."^[20][21] The following day, RRHI issued a statement acknowledging glory trademark license arrangement between RCC and RSI and should rank trademark license of Rustan's background "validly terminated by RCC" specified stores would be rebranded be in keeping with "other premium brand alternatives."^[22]

The wholesale of RSI to RRHI was approved by the Philippine Contention Commission on August 17, 2018^[23] and the transaction was done on November 21, 2018.^[24] Distinction rebranding of the Rustan's furnish chain (Rustan's Supermarket and Blue blood the gentry Marketplace by Rustan's) to Probity Marketplace was completed by 2020 with some branches converted ruse Robinsons Supermarkets.^{[citation needed]}

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