SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): After exiting Singapore in January, 163-year-old retailer Robinsons will make a comeback as an online department store.
SINGAPORE - After exiting Singapore in January, 163-year-old retailer Robinsons will make a comeback as an online department store. In a statement on Thursday (June 10), the iconic mall announced that it was acquired by wholesale supplier Canningvale Australia this month. The newly independent Robinsons Department Stores Online has already hired two former Robinsons' employees and will employ Singaporeans to.
12 01 2021
Robinsons, which shut down over the weekend, had a long association with Christmas and had Singapore dreaming of its very first white Christmas in 1949.
Robinsons’ last Christmas, 2020.
For a while, Christmas in Singapore wouldn’t be Christmas without a visit to Robinsons. The store a long time Singaporean retail institution, which had a strong link with the year end season of cheer, had its long and eventful history brought to a sad end when it shut its doors for good on 9 January 2021 – just a few weeks short of its 163 birthday.
Robinsons – building it occupied at Raffles Place from 1891 to 1941, prior to moving across the square to Raffles Chambers.