Dillard's

Dillard's was founded in 1938 in Nashville, Arkansas by William T. Dillard as a small department store that evolved across the post-1950 era into one of America's defining Southern-and-Southwestern department store operations. The brand operates 280+ locations across the United States, primarily across the South, Southwest, and Midwest, with the family-owned ownership structure distinguishing Dillard's from peer-class American publicly-traded department store operations. The Dillard's vocabulary spans the full American mid-luxury department store gamut: women's and men's ready-to-wear floors carrying mainstream American and European designer brands, an exceptional beauty and perfume hall, an integrated home-and-furnishings program, plus the broader mid-luxury department store mix that distinguishes Dillard's from the higher-end Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom operations and from the lower-end Macy's and JCPenney operations. The brand operates at mid-luxury price points that anchor American Southern department store retail. Dillard's operates 280+ American locations primarily across the South, Southwest, and Midwest plus a robust e-commerce platform. The brand's customer base—heavily skewed toward American Southern and Southwestern mid-luxury and middle-class customers—treats Dillard's as the defining American Southern mid-luxury department store anchor. For Little Rock, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and broader American Southern customers building a mid-luxury wardrobe through the post-1980 era, Dillard's has been one of the defining retail destinations alongside Belk and the broader American Southern department store retail network.