Harrods
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Harrods Limited
Type: Private company
Industry: Retail
Genre: Department store
Founded: 1834
Founder: Charles Henry Harrod
Headquarters: London, England
Products: Quality & luxury goods
Revenue: £691 million (2013)
Net income: £135 million (2013)
Owner: Qatar Holdings
Number of employees: 12,000 (2013)
Subsidiaries: Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates; Harrods Aviation; Harrods Buenos Aires
Slogan: Omnia Omnibus Ubique (Translation: All Things for All People, Everywhere)

Harrods is an upmarket department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011, with plans announced to reopen in 2013. The store occupies a 5 acre (20,000 m2) site and has 330 departments covering one million square feet (90,000 m2) of retail space. The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique, which is Latin for 'All Things for All People, Everywhere'. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Halls, are well known.