“Can a 150-year-old Dutch luxury department store remain culturally and financially relevant as a physical-first omnichannel retailer under Thai ownership?”
De Bijenkorf is the Netherlands' premier luxury department store, owned since 2021 by Thailand's Central Group (which also owns KaDeWe and Selfridges). It is a long-standing Adyen reference customer for unified omnichannel payments, and added Klarna BNPL in 2021. The business has been under financial pressure post-COVID and is reliant on parent-company support.
De Bijenkorf processes payments through Adyen.
De Bijenkorf's lending and capital products are provided by Klarna.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in De Bijenkorf's stack: Payments / PSP (Adyen); Lending (Klarna, Klarna Pay in 14 days and Klarna Pay in 3 (interest-free installments)).
De Bijenkorf is founded in 1870 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Get a read on where your own stack stands against De Bijenkorf and the rest of its category — what they built versus bought, which providers they use, and where the gaps in your own strategy and competitive set actually are.