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| name = C&A | logo = Cunda-logo-2016.png | type = Private | foundation = {{Start date and age|1841}} | founder = Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer | location = Vilvoorde, Belgium Düsseldorf, Germany | area_served = Much of Continental Europe, Latin America, China | key_people = Alain Caparros (CEO) Knut Bruggemann (Executive) Thorsten Rolfes (Executive) | parent = Cofra Holding AG | industry = Retailing | products = Apparel/Footwear specialty | revenue = {{profit}} US$ 8.1 billion (2010) | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = 50,000 | homepage = {{URL|http://www.c-and-a.com}} }} C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany. It has retail stores in many European countries. It serves only the largest markets of Asia, North America and South America. C&A's brands include Angelo Litrico, Canda, Clockhouse, Here+There, Palomino, Rodeo (ski and snowboard clothes), Westbury, Yessica, Yessica Pure, and Your Sixth Sense. The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company Cofra Holding AG. The company's success has led the family to be considered, by the Dutch, among the wealthiest in the Netherlands.[1] The Brenninkmeijer family, however, live in Geneva and Zug, Switzerland. HistoryThe company was founded by brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841 as a Dutch textile company, taking its company name from their initials. In 1906 Clemens' son, Bernard Joseph, started discounting in Amsterdam (Rekenen in Centen, in plaats van Procenten) and by 1910 there were ten stores in the Netherlands. These were from the German Brenninkmeyer family that traded in linen and textiles since the 17th century from its hometown of Mettingen, Germany.[2] For many years, C&A retail clothing stores were a major presence in town centres throughout the United Kingdom. C&A also opened stores in a number of out-of-town locations, most notably its store at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in the West Midlands, which opened in November 1989. The company's strategy of selling budget clothes from high-rent city-centre retail stores made it vulnerable to a new breed of competitors operating in cheaper, out-of-town locations, including Matalan and the rapidly expanding clothing operations of supermarket food chains such as Tesco and Asda, and to expanding high street names such as H&M, Zara, and Topshop. C&A in the United Kingdom was a notable example of an incorporated private unlimited company,[3] which meant that it was not required to publish its financial statements under United Kingdom company law. In 2000, C&A announced its intention to withdraw from the British market, where it had been operating since 1922, and the last UK retail stores closed in 2001.[4] Primark bought 11 of the C&A stores. In June 2009, the company withdrew from the Argentinian market. C&A China competes with main clothing companies such as H&M and Zara. The popular entertainer Beyoncé released her own clothing line, Deréon, in cooperation with C&A in the summer of 2010. On 14 January 2018, German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported on its web site that C&A's owners were considering selling the company to an unnamed Chinese investor. In a statement, Cofra Holding AG said that they "remain fully committed to a successful, future-proof C&A business and as such at C&A we have embarked on a transformation and growth program." Without directly mentioning the sale, they added: "The ongoing transformation of C&A includes an investigation of ways to accelerate in high growth priority areas such as China, emerging markets and digital, and that could potentially include partnerships and other types of additional external investment."[5] StoresNumber of C&A stores on 3 November 2017 Asia
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In popular cultureUnited Kingdom ska act The Specials referenced the store in "Man at C&A" on the 1980 album More Specials. The phrase "Man at C&A" was later used to typify someone who was "sartorially challenged".[8][9][10] In an episode of the popular sitcom Only Fools and Horses Delboy tells his brother Rodney that when they become millionaires, their clothes will "come from Man at C&A". References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.nisnews.nl/dossiers/royal_house/061103_1309.htm |title=Brenninkmeijers Still Netherlands' Richest Family |date=6 November 2003 |author= |publisher=NIS News |accessdate=20 December 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308232726/http://www.nisnews.nl/dossiers/royal_house/061103_1309.htm |archivedate=8 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.c-and-a.com/uk/en/corporate/company/about-us/history/ |title=C&A – a success story |publisher=C&A |accessdate=20 December 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304120303/http://www.c-and-a.com/uk/en/corporate/company/about-us/history/ |archivedate=4 March 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ |title=Company Details: C & A (company number 00524665) |publisher=United Kingdom Companies House webcheck |accessdate=20 December 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229053844/http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ |archivedate=29 December 2008 |df=dmy }} 4. ^{{Cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/792028.stm |publisher=BBC News | title=C&A quits UK | date=15 June 2000 |accessdate=20 December 2012 }} 5. ^{{cite news |last=Salden |first=Simone |url=http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/c-a-steht-offenbar-vor-verkauf-an-chinesen-a-1187808.html |title=C&A steht offenbar vor Verkauf an Chinesen |language=German |trans-title=C&A is apparently on sale to Chinese |work=Der Spiegel |location=Hamburg |date=2018-01-14 |accessdate=2018-01-14 }} 6. ^http://sustainability.c-and-a.com/about-ca/our-retail-markets/china/ 7. ^http://materialimpacts.c-and-a.com/our-retail-markets/brazil/ 8. ^{{Cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/campa-a-sad-tale-of-the-highstreet-store-that-went-from-coats-and-ats-to-closure-and-acrimony-712975.html | work=The Independent | first=Nigel | last=Cope | title=C&A, a sad tale of the high-street store that went from Coats and 'Ats to Closure and Acrimony | date=16 June 2000 |accessdate=20 December 2012 }} 9. ^{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1361747.stm |publisher=BBC News | title=C&A closes UK doors for last time | date=31 May 2001 |accessdate=20 December 2012 }} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.slang-dictionary.com/definition/man-at-CA.html |title=Man at C&A |date= |author= |publisher=slang-dictionary.com |accessdate=20 December 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083000/http://www.slang-dictionary.com/definition/man-at-CA.html |archivedate=16 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }} External links{{Commons category}}
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