Brown Thomas

Brown Thomas
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
GenreDepartment stores
Founded1848; 176 years ago (1848)
FoundersHugh Brown and James Thomas
Headquarters88-95 Grafton Street
Dublin, Ireland
Area served
Ireland
ProductsQuality and luxury goods
RevenueIncrease €200 million (2016)
Increase €85 million (2016)
OwnerSelfridges Group
Number of employees
Increase 6,000 (2016)
ParentBrown Thomas Arnotts Limited[1]
SubsidiariesBT2
Websitebrownthomas.com

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.[2]

  1. ^ Brown Thomas and Arnotts form new legal entity Archived 19 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Law Society Gazette, 2020-11-24.
  2. ^ "Who is Galen Weston, the Brown Thomas owner chasing control of Arnotts? - Independent.ie". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2 July 2017.