Showcase (retailer)
Canadian retail company
Showcase is a North American retail company specializing in emerging trends in health, beauty, home, and toys. It has won Canada's Best Managed Companies 3 years running in 2021, 2022, and 2023 and the RCC Excellence in Retailing Omni-Channel Award in 2022. There are 150 locations in malls across Canada and the USA, an e-commerce portal called ShopAtShowcase.com, and as of 2023 stated that it was expanding in the US.
History
The first Showcase store was opened in 1994 in the Meadowlark Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. At the turn of the 21st century the company opened an average of five stores per year. At this time, the company was primarily franchise-based, and modeled primarily as an infomercial outlet store.
Starting in 2003, the company redesigned stores and began to launch proprietary product lines such as Dream Away, Quantum, and Kyoto and expanded beyond infomercial boundaries, and officially adopted the name "Showcase".
Brands
Showcase sells health, beauty, home, toy, tech, and food products popularised on social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The company updated its store design and branding to "The Home of the Hottest Trends". A store with the new design and branding was opened in Sherway Gardens in 2018, followed by Toronto Eaton Centre in 2021, and Woodfield Mall in Chicago in 2022.
According to the Corporate Overview on the company's website it intended to open 100 US stores by 2024.
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