The chain was rebranded and relaunched as Harris Scarfe in 1995, and the renamed stores continue to trade today.

FitzGerald's was founded in March 1886, when George Parker FitzGerald—one of the early scholars of Hutchins School—established a wholesale business at 79 Collins Street, Hobart (later occupied by W. Coogan & Sons, now called Coogans).

[4] FitzGerald's was a Tasmanian majority family owned department store business until it was acquired by Charles Davis in 1981.

[5] Briefly, between 1993–1995, FitzGerald's operated a store at Forest Hill in suburban Melbourne.

Although the stores continue to operate under the Harris Scarfe banner, several have closed: New Norfolk in 2000, Eastlands in 2002 and Burnie in 2008.