Québec, Quebec, CA (On-site)1 open job
Privately held Canadian fashion and home retailer founded in 1840, selling apparel, designer labels, accessories, lingerie and home decor through 19 stores and simons.ca.
La Maison Simons is a privately held, family-owned Canadian fashion and home retailer, founded in 1840 and now run by the fifth generation of the same family. It sells women's and men's clothing, designer labels, accessories, lingerie and home decor through 19 store locations across Canada and through simons.ca, the e-commerce platform it launched in 2010. The company describes itself as Canada's oldest family-owned business.
The technical surface worth thinking about is fairly conventional for a retailer of this shape, and that's exactly the point: an e-commerce storefront handling the full Simons assortment, plus retail operations spanning 19 physical locations - from Place Ste-Foy in Quebec, its first mall store in 1961, to West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, which opened in 2012 as its first expansion beyond Quebec. Store, storefront and back-office infrastructure are all in scope of the same business. The listed technical domains are e-commerce and retail operations; anything beyond that is not specified.
Ownership and governance are unambiguous: privately held, family enterprise, no external funding disclosed. The stated operating principles are quality merchandise and attentive service carried across five generations, distinctive architecture and art in stores, and a formalized Vision program covering environmental impact reduction, responsible fibres and circular production, human rights commitments, and support for the communities in which it operates. Store design and curation are treated as core competencies rather than decoration.
