Galeries Lafayette will close at the end of July. It is already known that the department store on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin is to close.

It has now been announced that this will happen in the summer. 190 employees are affected by closure. Galeries Lafayette announced in October last year that it would close its only branch in Germany on Berlin's Friedrich Strasse at theend of 2024. The rental agreement with the property owner Tishman Speyer will not be renewed, it was said.