founded 1879 founder william dymock headquarters sydney australia number of locations australia hong kong products books dvds & ebooks website http www.dymocks.com.au http www.dymocks.co.nz http www.dymocks.com.hk dymocks in ifc mall hong kong dymocks booksellers is a privately owned bookstore chain founded in australia . it currently when has 65 stores in australia 1 and several stores in hong kong . 2 contents 1 history 1.1 hong kong 2 dymocks today 3 loyalty program 4 references 5 external links history edit the first dymocks bookstore was opened in sydney by william dymock in 1879 in market street . as his business grew over the years he moved to larger premises and eventually had a million books in stock . as he had died childless and unmarried the business passed to his sister marjory who was married to john forsyth . since then the forsyth family has managed dymocks . in 1922 the dymock family purchased the site of the old royal hotel in george street and built the historic art deco landmark dymocks building completed in 1930 . in 1986 the bookstore chain was established as a franchise chain and has since opened stores in every mainland australian state and also internationally in new zealand and singapore . 3 in 1999 dymocks booksellers entered into a joint venture with south china morning post holdings to set up dymocks franchise systems china in order to expand the dymocks chain into hong kong . 4 hong kong edit the first store with the dymocks brand opened at the star ferry concourse in central in 1999 . 5 three dymocks stores closed in 2012 in hong kong when their rental contracts expired . 6 it was announced in january 2015 that dymocks would close its flagship ifc mall store on january 25 and that it would subsequently close its hong kong office . after the closure of the ifc mall store the number of dymocks stores in hong kong would be brought down to five . the remaining stores are expected to operate independently using the dymocks name before being rebranded individually . 6 dymocks today edit in addition to stocking music cds dvds and other related items dymocks now has an online store launched in late 2006 in response to the increasing penetration into the australian book market of online retailers such as amazon.com . 7 dymocks has a comprehensive multi channel strategy including an international retail network of approximately 65 stores in australia and 12 stores in hong kong ; an online website ; loyalty program regular catalogues and social media . dymocks is the largest bookseller in australia and currently holds close to 20 % of the australian book market as well as being the largest english language bookseller in hong kong . in 2009 dymocks acquired an 80 % equity stake in the australian owned and operated healthy habits sandwich bar franchise for an undisclosed sum . 8 in 2015 dymocks holdings pty ltd acquired telegram paper goods . 9 founded in 2008 telegram paper goods distributes designer stationery brands across australia and new zealand . 10 telegram is best known for its online stationery store notemaker.com.au that sells eclectic and designer stationery cards wrap diaries journals and fine writing instruments . 11 loyalty program edit dymocks has a loyalty program called dymocks booklover rewards originally launched in 2001 and relaunched in 2006 . citation needed . references edit carolyn cummins ; danny john 2007 07 26 . dymocks ponders a bid as borders parent retreats . business . sydney morning herald . p. 27 . retrieved 2007 09 08 . http www.dymocks.com.hk teo pau lin 2000 07 03 . shopping down under . the straits times . with citylink mall connecting the raffles city and marina centre areas pedestrians can pick up a coffee or a couple of cds on the go easily ... anchor tenants hmv music store dymocks books and pacific coffee company access date requires url help tsang denise 1999 09 01 . dymocks scmp forge mainland venture . . south china morning post . access date requires url help the dymocks story a b woodhouse alice 11 january 2015 . bookseller dymocks to close flagship ifc mall store and hong kong office . south china morning post . hong kong . retrieved 11 january 2015 . staff writer 2006 11 24 . dymocks responds to amazon . adbrief . p. 3 . australia s dymocks booksellers has revamped its online store to be more competitive with us rival amazon . access date requires url help masters clare 2007 08 01 . carr turns new page in career . the daily telegraph . p. 8 . access date requires url help telegram paper goods by dymocks holdings pty ltd 1241395 . www.ipaustralia.com.au . retrieved 2016 01 30 . about telegram designer stationery suppliers telegram paper goods . www.telegrampapergoods.com . retrieved 2016 01 30 . notemaker australia s leading online stationery shop . www.notemaker.com.au . retrieved 2016 01 30 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to dymocks booksellers . companies portal books portal dymocks booksellers main australian page dymocks booksellers hong kong page dymocks history v t e major bookstore and book superstore chains international book off dymocks booksellers books kinokuniya naiin tsutaya waterstones whsmith eslite bookstore nationwide country barnes & noble us blackwell uk books a million us dokya th eason irl gunung agung ind indigo books and music can kyobo book centre kr libro jp national book store ph polare be steimatzky il suomalainen kirjakauppa fin oxford bookstore in thalia de defunct borders group int l us based b. dalton us dillons uk ottakar s uk polare nl waldenbooks us see also list of bookstore chains including local entities retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dymocks booksellers & oldid 742982642 categories bookshops of australiabookshops of new zealandbookshops of hong kong1879 establishments in australiaretail companies established in 1879hidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlpages using infobox company with unsupported parametersvague or ambiguous time from january 2015all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2016commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 01 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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