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Brown Thomas & Company Limited is a chain of five upmarket department stores in Ireland, with two located in Dublin, and one each in Cork, Galway, and Limerick.Together with Dublin's Arnotts department store, it is owned by UK-based Selfridges, which in turn is owned by Thai Conglomerate Central Group and Austria's Signa Holding.
Arnotts is the oldest and largest department store in Ireland.It is located on Henry Street, on the north side of central Dublin. [2] [3] Together with the Brown Thomas chain of department stores, it is owned by UK-based Selfridges, which in turn is owned by Thai Conglomerate Central Group and Austria's Signa Holding.
It was later sold in early 1990s to the Weston family, who owned Brown Thomas, and the name Switzers was dropped. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Switzers premises on Grafton Street was refurbished and remodelled as the flagship Brown Thomas store, but the name Switzer's remains over one door on Wicklow Street.
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In 1862, the Dublin Builder said the street "abounds in old premises in need of doctoring up." [8] During the late 19th century, a number of retail properties were built and several long-standing businesses established their presence on the street, such as the department stores Switzer's and Brown Thomas. The jewellers Weirs opened in 1869. [11]
Dublin, Switzers / Switzer & Co. (acquired jointly with Waterford Glass in 1971, full ownership obtained in 1985; sold as a going concern to Brown Thomas in 1991. The store was at 88-95 Grafton Street) [120]
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Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.It is one of Ireland's two largest [1] shopping centres with over 131 shops, 47 restaurants, 3 amusement facilities and a cinema, retail floor space of 111,484 m 2 (1,200,000 sq ft) [1] and almost 140,000 m 2 (1,500,000 sq ft) total floor space, [2] and over 3,000 car parking spaces. [3]