Jenners

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Jenners Department Store is one of Britain's oldest department stores, long family-run but recently brought under the ownership of House of Fraser. It has maintained its original position on Princes Street, Edinburgh, since 1838. It contains over 100 different departments selling a large variety of goods.

Dubbing itself the "Harrods of the North", it has held a Royal Warrant since 1911, and was visited by the Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988.

Jenners is now facing increased competition, both from out-of-town retailers and from the new Harvey Nichols in nearby St Andrew's Square. On March 16 2005 it was announced that the Douglas-Miller family who own Jenners were in advanced negotiations to sell the business to the House of Fraser, at an estimated £100–200 million; the name "Jenners" would still be used for the store. It was later sold for around £45 million. House of Fraser subsequently sold the lease of the buildings to an unknown private company based in Ireland.