‘There used to be queues round the block’: Staff outnumber shoppers four to one in one Grafton Street store
Staff outnumber shoppers four to one in one Dublin store with bargain-hunters thin on the ground for St Stephen’s Day
Arnotts
Brown Thomas owner Central Group overpaid for European department stores
Thai family-owned company bought portfolio including world-famous Selfridges store in 2021 from billionaire Weston family
Toddler awarded €47,000 after fall against Santa’s sleigh in Arnotts
Boy has been left with a permanent scar, the Circuit Civil Court heard
Veteran of Irish business Tom Toner has died
Inaugural chairman of Forfás held directorships with a number of major Irish groups right up until his death on Saturday
Saudi Arabia’s investment fund takes stake in Brown Thomas and Arnotts owner
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will hold 40% of company behind well known department stores
Ex-Arnotts and Harrods executive pulls out of Fenwick role
Nigel Blow, who also led Brown Thomas, had been due to take up his new position in the coming weeks
Brown Thomas Arnotts posts record revenues despite lost income from Dublin riots
Group behind department stores made a bottom line loss due to non-cash charges relating to a sale and leaseback property transaction
Brown Thomas Arnotts fashion buying director Shelly Corkery leaves to ‘explore new opportunities’
Corkery had spent 24 years with the Irish department store retailer
Investors in UL programme reported to be spooked by student housing controversy
Seen & Heard: DNG enters the mortgage broker market; Quanta Capital targets Signa assets; and Virgin Media refused €30m for public service broadcasting
‘It’s a growing market, it absolutely is’: Meet Ireland’s online beauty entrepreneurs
Industry insiders say online business as much as tripled in size during the pandemic, fundamentally changing the sector
Munich prosecutor opens money laundering investigation into Signa
Preliminary investigation initiated into Bavarian developments by collapsed luxury property group
Signa company’s failure due to ‘illicit’ transactions, creditors allege
Claim contradicts earlier findings that company, which part owns Brown Thomas and Arnotts, founded on rising interest rates and their impact on property valuation models
Signa creditors push to oust management over property fire sale fears
Properties held by Signa, which part owns Brown Thomas and Arnotts, are being sold or transferred with limited transparency, groups representing dozens of lenders say
Signa creditors file criminal complaint with Austrian anti-fraud prosecutors
Group of creditors to René Benko’s property empire seek urgent investigation into collapsed group
Berlin’s KaDeWe department store files for insolvency
Store is part owned by Austria’s Signa Group, which is also co-owner of Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland
Unsolicited bid for Brown Thomas Arnotts, nursing home losses, and Dalton Philips plan to rebuild profits at Greencore
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Brown Thomas Arnotts could have been sold for the second time in a year
Latest accounts for the Irish department store retailer show that it was the subject of an unsolicited offer in August 2023, which ultimately came to nothing
Brown Thomas has busiest-ever trading month in December despite fallout from city-centre riot
Latest accounts for Brown Thomas Arnotts show that a third party bid was made last August for Irish department store retailer but talks ended without a deal
‘Potential bidders’ for Ires assets emerge amid rebel shareholder campaign
Seen & Heard: BT-Arnotts’ ‘car-free Dublin’ warning; tax debt deadline extension; Tara Mines rescue plan rejected; Cadbury site plans
St Stephen’s Day sales: Arnotts saves Christmas by honouring ‘massive’ discounts
Panicked bargain hunters feared missing out on discount televisions and matresses
Fall of former Brown Thomas and Arnotts owner continues with self-administration move
Signa collapse leaves line of creditors and unfinished buildings in its wake
Brown Thomas and Arnotts part-owner files for insolvency
Filing will concern dozens of European banks over their exposure to indebted group
O’Connell Street traders fight to recover ground lost to riots
O’Connell Street is supposed to be Dublin’s main thoroughfare but instead vast tracts of land lie empty awaiting redevelopment
What is and isn’t open for business in Dublin today
Dublin riots: Life in the city centre is partially returning to normal but there are fears that there could be more trouble
‘Shame on those people’: Arnotts chief rounds on rioters
Dublin businesses ‘massively concerned’ about cost and impact of riots on trade in what is busiest trading period of the year
Is change in the air at Brown Thomas and Arnotts?
Thailand’s Central Group has moved to take full control of the department stores’ parent group
Housing on target, Mainstream restructuring and how the Brown Thomas owner lost control
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Thai investor takes control of Brown Thomas and Arnotts
Central Group acquires additional equity in company behind department stores, giving it majority control of the Selfridges group
‘I know it sounds mad that a wine opener can help somebody, but it does give independence’
‘I know it sounds mad that a wine opener can help somebody, but it does give independence’
Restructuring of Brown Thomas owner ‘does not change anything’ for Irish operations
Rene Benko, founder of Signa Holdings which owns store and Arnotts, handing over control of €23bn empire for restructuring
A snapshot of trading by Brown Thomas and Arnotts since their takeover last year
Accounts for parent group show Irish department stores made a loss from mid-August 2022 under new owners
Owner of Brown Thomas, Arnotts records £124m loss
Department store portfolio was bought by René Benko’s Signa Group and Tiang Chirathivat’s Central Group for £4bn
Dublin’s post-Covid plans: ‘There is no vision and no strategy ... our citizens are losing out’
Violent and antisocial behaviour along with lack of forethought for city’s future threaten capital’s standing for tourism, say leading retailers, cultural bodies and business organisations
Noel Smyth gets go-ahead for 245-bed hotel above Arnotts
Dublin City Council concludes development will ‘contribute to the regeneration’ of the area
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