Harrods, the most famous department store in the world, was established as a small grocery in 1894 by Charles Henry Harrods. The one-room outlet quickly developed into a large store offering food, stationery, cosmetics and medicines. By 1880 Harrods employed 100 workers. In 1985 Mohamed Al-Fayed, an Egyptian multimillionaire, bought the store for £615m.

Today Harrods takes up 90,000 square meters of retail area, it has around 330 departments and it sells nearly everything - from foodstuff to home accessories. It hires around 4,000 people ready to fulfill all caprices of the most demanding customers.