<P> The company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1974 . Shortly after , in 1976 , the first store outside Scandinavia opened in London . H&M continued to expand in Europe , and began to retail online in 1998 , when it was able to buy the domain hm.com from a company called A1 in a non-published domain transaction . The two - letter domain was registered in the early 1990s , but data on the first registration is lost . The opening of the first U.S. store on March 31 , 2000 , on Fifth Avenue in New York marked the start of the expansion outside of Europe . </P>
<P> The company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1974 . Shortly after , in 1976 , the first store outside Scandinavia opened in London . H&M continued to expand in Europe , and began to retail online in 1998 , when it was able to buy the domain hm.com from a company called A1 in a non-published domain transaction . The two - letter domain was registered in the early 1990s , but data on the first registration is lost . The opening of the first U.S. store on March 31 , 2000 , on Fifth Avenue in New York marked the start of the expansion outside of Europe . </P>
when did h & m open in the us
when did h & m open in the us
March 31 , 2000
March 31 , 2000