Lane Crawford

Lane Crawford is a retail company with specialty stores selling designer label luxury goods in Hong Kong and Greater China.

Founded in Hong Kong in 1850, Lane Crawford has nine points of sale with more than 585,000 square feet of total retail space, including three multi-brand luxury department stores in Hong Kong, two in Beijing, one in Shanghai, one in Chengdu, two Lane Crawford Home stores in Hong Kong specialising in designer furniture and lifestyle accessories, and an online store.

Lane Crawford is a part of The Lane Crawford Joyce Group, a fashion retail and brand management group in Asia, which also includes fashion store Joyce Boutique, fashion footwear, handbags and accessories specialist Pedder Group and retail, brand management and distribution company ImagineX.

History

Early History

In August 1850, two Scots, Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened a shop in a makeshift bamboo structure on the waterfront of what is now Des Voeux Road. Since that time, Lane Crawford has occupied a number of prime retail sites along Des Voeux Road and Queen's Road Central; in the early 1900s it also had stores in Guangzhou and Shanghai in China, and Kobe and Tokyo in Japan. It has been a tailor, and outfitter, a draper, a provisions dealer, a wine and spirits merchant, an auctioneer of antiques, a baker, a restaurant and a bar.