page_title: Zellers
section_title: 2013–2020: Liquidator
hierarchical_section_title: Zellers / History / 2013–2020: Liquidator
caption_attribution_description: English: The store front of a Zellers which was reopened in Bells Corners part of Nepan in Ottawa. The new Zellers sign in the foreground with the shadows left behind of the previous Zellers, including the Truly Canadian and the Maple Leaf, behind it.
context_page_description: Zellers was a Canadian chain discount department retailer that was based in Brampton, Ontario. It was founded in 1931 and was acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 1978.
  A series of acquisitions and expansions allowed Zellers to reach its peak in the 1990s, with 350 stores across the country in 1999. However, fierce competition by Walmart Canada and an inability to adjust to the increasingly volatile retailing industry resulted in Zellers losing significant ground in the 2000s. At the same time, HBC's new owner NRDC Equity Partners was focusing on bolstering and re-positioning Zellers' sister chain, The Bay, with an upscale and fashion-oriented direction, and saw Zellers as a detriment to the turnaround.
  In January 2011, HBC announced that it would sell the lease agreements for up to 220 Zellers stores to the US. chain Target for $1.825 billion. In turn, Target announced its intent to convert many of them to Canadian locations of Target, and re-sell the remainder to other parties such as Walmart Canada, resulting in their liquidation and eventual closure.
context_section_description: In January 2013, HBC revised its strategy and decided to keep a total of three stores open under the Zellers banner after March 31, 2013. Originally these included the store at Place Bourassa in Montreal North, Quebec but it closed in early 2014. Replacing it was a previously closed Zellers in Nepean, Ontario, which reopened on April 3, 2014, keeping the number of stores at three. In September 2014, the last Zellers in Western Canada located at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre in Surrey, British Columbia was closed, leaving only two stores remaining nationwide: at Kipling Queensway Mall in Etobicoke, Ontario and Bells Corners in Nepean, Ontario. Both locations were closed by January 26, 2020.
  These locations no longer operated as  discount department stores, but instead as liquidation outlets for sister chain The Bay. HBC communications manager Tiffany Bourré described these locations as featuring fashion apparel and a refined home product offering with more from other HBC banners.
caption: The store front of the re-opened Zellers in Bells Corners, part of Nepean in Ottawa.
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