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2004 - F&M Japan
Fortnum & Mason Japan opens
Supplier of delicacies to Fortnum’s for centuries, Japan has long been one of our best export markets. In our first overseas expansion since 1931, we now have branches in two Japanese cities.
With our store in Heathrow's Terminal Two already successfully off the ground, the stage is set for further expansion as the millennium progresses. Watch this space...
Fortnum's The Record Store
Fortnum's the Record Store
In November 1984 Fortnum's made the national news when staff requested they sell the the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single in Piccadilly. As no-one is in any doubt when it's Christmas at Fortnum's, the company took up the idea with gusto - helping spread the charitable message far beyond its traditional audience.
Opening of the new Fresh Food Floor
The new Fresh Food Floor and Wine Bar, 1707, is now open.
Now Fortnum's Food Hall has expanded onto two floors for the first time, there's a greater variety of fabulous fresh food than ever before. We can’t imagine anyone asking for more.
It features fresh vegetables, fish, poultry, meat, cheese, charcuterie and even flowers. Hot sausage and mustard? Certainly. Cold jelly and custard, on the other hand, is thankfully beyond the new department's remit.
For three centuries Fortnum's has been committed to bringing the world's best food to Piccadilly – often from continents away. Fresh food, though, has always come from as close to these Isles as possible. Respecting this hemisphere's seasons has always seemed obvious to us: we've never really wavered from the path.
We take extraordinary care over the origins of everything we sell. Every sprout, lobster, truckle and rib comes direct from suppliers we know intimately rather than from markets. If we’re not to uphold our own standards, who is?