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Los Angeles' wait for H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB is over.

The savvy European retailer built anticipation in the Southland by opening locations on San Francisco's Powell and Post streets late last year. Now, stores are planned for Beverly Center The Beverly Center is a shopping center in Los Angeles, California, United States. Description
The Beverly Center is a monolithic eight-story structure located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, California, between La Cienega and San Vicente boulevards.
 and Old Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. .

Lisa Sandberg, a spokeswoman for the Stockholm, Sweden-based company, said a 25,000-square-foot store in Beverly Center and a 12,000-square-foot, two-level outlet in Pasadena will both open in the fall.

They could be joined by up to three other local locations, to be determined. Before that, two more H&M locations will open in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern  in the spring.

The San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  openings created a stir among shoppers: More than 1,000 people lined up to enter the first store before its cash registers began ringing.

"The customers out there have been waiting for an H&M for a while," said Sandberg. "H&M really suits the West Coast. We have gotten a fantastic reaction."

Staff reporter Rachel Brown Rachel Brown (born July 2 1980) is an English footballer, currently playing as goalkeeper for Everton Ladies and England Women.

After a long spell out with injury, Brown returned to the England team against Sweden in the last group game of Women’s Euro 2005.
 can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 224, or by e-mail at rbrown@labusinessjournal.com.
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Title Annotation:MARKETPLACE; H&M Hennes and Mauritz AB in Los Angeles
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Author:Brown, Rachel
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Jan 30, 2006
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