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Beauparc Utilities founder acquires Victoria’s Secret on Grafton Street as part of €40m deal

Eamon Waters pays €28m for lingerie chain’s landmark store and €12m for Tesco premises on Lower Baggot Street

Back from the brink: Grafton Street rebounds as high-end retailers vie for pitch

Ireland’s leading shopping street was battered by Covid and online rivals. Big brands are giving it a new lease of life – in return for a financial reset

Tesco, Aldi and Brown Thomas Arnotts admit ‘more to do’ to close gender pay gap

More men in senior roles means women earn less on an hourly basis, while Tesco and Brown Thomas also have wide bonus gaps

Post-Christmas sales: Ten shops with great sales and what to buy there

Arnotts, Brown Thomas, Shaws and many more retailers promising all manner of discounts on everything from Aran jumpers to Zippo lighters

Cost-of-living takes shine off ‘revenge Christmas’ for sequinned-up fashion retailers

Clothing advertisers want price-sensitive shoppers to fall for their post-pandemic charms, but consumer sentiment has not gone their way

Dunnes Stores to open at Dundrum Town Centre

Irish retailer agrees deal for second-floor unit as Penneys moves to second and third floors of former House of Fraser

Brown Thomas and Arnotts parent posts record pretax profit of €8.94m

Group had shipped a loss in the previous year

Lenders register charges against Brown Thomas Arnotts as new owners take over

Thai-headquartered Central Group and Austrian Signa Holding completed the €4.7 billion deal for Selfridges group last week

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Novel recipes from Ixta Belfrage, learning about fish in Howth, and some high-class chocolate ideas for summer

Brown Thomas says it banned car park from using its name due to pedestrianisation dispute

Grafton Street retailer says it is now ‘fully supportive’ of removing all vehicles from South William Street

The best mascaras for every lash type

Lengthening, thickening or waterproof? A Brown Thomas beauty stylist has the answers

New owners of Selfridges plan luxury hotel at flagship London store

Austrian-Thai group also buying Brown Thomas and Arnotts

Brown Thomas and Arnotts sold in £4bn deal

Thai/Austrian consortium buying Selfridges group from Weston family

Thai conglomerate in advanced talks to buy Brown Thomas and Arnotts

Stores are part of Selfridges portfolio of high-end retail outlets in €4.7bn deal

RTÉ will require rescue if funding issues not addressed

Seen & heard: Bidders circle Brown Thomas, Morans face PFS bill; and missing tradespeople

David McWilliams: Brown Thomas has a car park problem

The retailer’s name is over the gate of a car park that’s limiting city centre pedestrianisation

Lululemon signs 10-year lease on flagship Grafton Street store

Canadian athleisure brand to pay €400,000 in rent for former Pamela Scott premises

Brown Thomas and Arnotts may sell in £4bn Selfridges deal – report

Weston family appoint Credit Suisse to advise after unsolicited offer for group

How lockdown has changed underwear: Women ditch shapewear and push-up bras

Sales of sports bras have risen as women chose comfort over curves

Tributes paid to ‘fantastic entrepreneur’ Galen Weston

Brown Thomas Arnotts owner Weston died on Tuesday

Galen Weston, owner of Brown Thomas and Arnotts, has died

Canadian’s transatlantic empire included majority stake in company behind Penneys

Dior to open boutique in Brown Thomas later this year

Dior will open a boutique for women’s accessories at Brown Thomas’s flagship store on Grafton Street in the autumn

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Selfridges offers fashion for rent in pursuit of green-conscious customers

Luxury retailer will also offer sale of ‘vintage clothing’ and used accessories

BT and Arnotts unlikely to be last retail victims of Covid-19

Low footfall, high rents and a switch to online shopping combine to undermine the sector

Brown Thomas and Arnotts to cut 15% of jobs due to coronavirus crisis

Retailer blames ‘unprecedented circumstances’ related to Covid-19 for loss of 150 posts

Seen & Heard: 450 Dublin homes sold in pre-fund deal by Glenveagh

Flutter’s losing tax bet, FBD’s harder line on fraud, and McKillen ordered to pay costs

Brown Thomas to open major new shop in Dundrum

Outlet opening in 2021 will take over two floors from departing House of Fraser

Complaint over Institute of Education ‘better teachers’ ad upheld

Advertising authority upholds complaints against Brown Thomas and e-cigarette firm

A Santa visit may have lost some magic as consumerism is back with a bang

Caveat: Aldi and Lidl have focused on consumers looking to ‘premiumise’, and you don’t do that unless you’re feeling good

Packing company wrapped up in online, design and sustainability

Friday interview: Vicki O’Toole, owner and managing director JJ O’Toole Ltd

Jewellery maker Links of London enters administration, 350 jobs at risk

Company’s products sold through numerous Irish outlets

Retail supervision apprenticeship aims to slow staff turnover

Turning jobs in sector into long-term careers is targeted by Retail Ireland

LK Bennett lines up administrators as it struggles to find backer

Retailer operates within Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Dublin

The Birkin: bags of style and a sound investment

The Hermès handbag sketched by English actor Jane Birkin more than holds its value

Irish profits up at Gucci, down at Ralph Lauren

Gucci notes importance of tourism in Irish sales performance

Tills jingling across Dublin for St Stephen’s Day sales

Brown Thomas says more Irish buyers are shopping this year for luxury handbags

Couple to vacate house deemed by court to be proceeds of crime

Criminal Assets Bureau claims Kenneth Carpenter involved in sale and supply of drugs

Serial shoplifter jailed for stealing Chanel handbags

Catherine Gaffney stole items worth €10,150 from Brown Thomas on Dublin’s Grafton Street

Out of the frying pan and into the fire for House of Fraser?

Cantillon: Retailer acquired by Sports Direct billionaire Mike Ashley – a mixed blessing

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