Daimaru

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The Daimaru, Inc.
株式会社大丸

Company type	Public KK
Industry	Retail
Founded	Kyoto, Japan (April 16, 1920 (1920-04-16))
Defunct	February 28, 2010 (2010-02-28)
Fate	Merged with Matsuzakaya
Successor	Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores Co., Ltd.
Headquarters	Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan
Products	Daimaru department stores Daimaru Peacock supermarkets
Revenue	467.0 billion yen (2009)
Number of employees	3,292 (2007)
Parent	J. Front Retailing
Website	daimaru.co.jp/english/index.html

Daimaru (大丸) is a Japanese department store chain, principally located in the Kansai region of Japan. The chain is operated by Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores, a subsidiary of J. Front Retailing. At one time Daimaru was an independent company, The Daimaru, Inc. (株式会社大丸), headquartered in Chūō-ku, Osaka.^[1]

It has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 1962 to 1982. As of 2016, Daimaru had seven stores in Japan, and employed about 3,000 people.^[2]