Smith & Caughey's is a mid-sized department store

Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...

 chain (though of just two shops in one city, Auckland) in New Zealand

New Zealand

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, and is considered to be a top-range store.

One of the older companies of the country, it was established in 1880 by Marianne Smith as a drapery

Drapery

Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles . It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.In art history, drapery refers to any cloth or...

store, and is the oldest Auckland department store. Currently, it is mostly fashion-oriented, with sections of jewelry and homewares.

They have stores in Auckland (Queen Street, City Centre and Broadway, Newmarket), with the Newmarket store being in a mid-1880s heritage building constructed by the company. The Queen Street store, also in an old heritage building, was once famous for its 'Chefs Bar' established by Otto Groen.