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Belk, Inc. is an American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina, with nearly 300 locations in 16 states. Belk stores and Belk.com offer apparel, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings, and a wedding registry.

For other uses, see Belk (disambiguation) and Bełk (disambiguation).

Formerly

  • New York Racket (1888–1898)
  • Belk Brothers (1898–1909)

Private

Retail

1888 (1888) in Monroe, North Carolina, United States

William Henry Belk

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

293 (2019)[1]

Don Hendricks (CEO)

Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.

Decrease US$ 3.7 billion (FY 2017)[2]

Sycamore Partners

10,639 (2022)

www.belk.com

Sponsorships[edit]

In December 2010, Belk announced that it would become the title sponsor for the former Meineke Car Care Bowl (played in Charlotte), renamed as the Belk Bowl beginning in 2011. The sponsorship would continue for three years. On July 18, 2013, Belk announced a six-year extension of the bowl partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), beginning in 2014.[30] Under the agreement, the bowl featured teams from the ACC and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). On November 20, 2019, Belk announced that it would no longer be the title sponsor for the bowl game following the 2019 playing.[31] Overall, Belk was the title sponsor for nine editions of the bowl (2011–2019).[32]

in Charlotte, North Carolina, houses the chain's largest store, with more than 336,414 square feet (31,253.9 m2). The store was built in 1970 as one of the mall's original anchor stores. The mall was co-developed by the Belk and Ivey families.

SouthPark Mall

in Hoover, Alabama, houses a flagship store, made official after a recent renovation brings it up to par with the mall's rival lifestyle center, The Summit.[36]

Riverchase Galleria

in Birmingham, Alabama, houses a flagship store built in 1997 as a Parisian store and one of the lifestyle center's original anchors. Its intended conversion to a Belk flagship was announced on April 25, 2007, with the reorganization complete by September 2007. It had been Parisian's flagship store.

The Summit

in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Hudson Belk built an elaborate 236,000-square-foot (21,900 m2) store in 1972 (subsequently expanded to 305,000 square feet (28,300 m2) in 2007, with separate locations for menswear and in-mall cosmetics counters) in North Carolina's high-tech Research Triangle.

Crabtree Valley Mall

in Columbia, South Carolina, is home to one of Belk flagship stores, where Belk expanded into the former Sears anchor location adding 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) to the already over 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) store in 2015, creating separate location for men's wear department, in one of South Carolinas biggest malls.[37]

Columbiana Centre

in Mobile, Alabama, opened in September 2016, a 237,000-square-foot (22,000 m2) that replaced a former Sears. In order to do that, Belk closed two stores that were across from each other: the former Parisian store in the mall and the former McRae's across the street in the former Springdale Mall.

The Shoppes at Bel Air

The chain has multiple "flagship" locations—larger locations in urban and metropolitan centers,[33] and a wider array of merchandise and services including in-store salons.[34][35] As of 2014, the chain claimed 18 flagship locations, and plans to upgrade more locations.

Archived March 4, 2020, at the Wayback Machine

Belk Bowl

 : UNCC Atkins Library

John M Belk Papers