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Hudson's Bay Company

Brampton, Canada · Founded 1670 · Closed: Dissolved in 2025 according to Wikidata.

Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 by Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, and is based in Brampton, Canada. It closed in 2025.

Key facts

Industry
retail
Legal form
joint-stock company
Employees
70,000

About

Canadian retail business group, former fur trading business

Founders

In context

We hold 550 other retail companies. 81 of them have closed, after a median of 65 years, and 469 have no closure recorded.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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