Brown Thomas

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Brown Thomas is a chain of four department stores located in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Limerick. It is an upmarket store, akin to Canada's upscale chain of department stores, Holt Renfrew, controlled by the same family. It houses an outlet of Hermès in its Dublin branch.

1 Dublin Store(s)
2 Other Store Info
3 BT2
4 Stores
5 References
6 Further reading

[edit] Dublin Store(s)

The 130,000 square foot Dublin Store on Grafton Street is the chain's flagship location. It includes Boutiques for Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Gucci, Armani Cosmetics, Jo Malone, Molton Brown, Penhaligan's, and the like. Ladies boutiques include Chanel, Valentino, Versace, Jimmy Choo, and many others. A Vera Wang bridal salon recently opened.

It is expected by 2007 that Brown Thomas will build a second store north of the Liffey River in the current Cleary's store on O'Connell Street. The store will be approximately 120,000 square feet and will compliment the merchandise selection at the Grafton Street store.

[edit] Other Store Info

The stores tend to a wide audience, vending both wearable and "standard" clothes and also very expensive, "haute couture" garments, many of which are to be found in the basement. The downstairs of the Dublin branch contains "Browns Bar", a cafe, and a barber shop. The Limerick Branch also contains a Browns Café upstairs and a Browns Bar downstairs.

Also connected to the Dublin Branch is Aya Sushi Bar, on Clarendon Street. This is Dublin's finest conveyor sushi bar, and a stop here provides excellent respite from serious shopping.

[edit] BT2

Brown Thomas also operates the BT2 chain, located in Grafton Street, Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and Dundrum Town Centre. These stores have more mass market clothes aimed at younger buyers, such as the Ralph Lauren and Timberland children ranges. In the Grafton street outlet there is a LCD screen which shows childrens films so children be entertained while their parents shop for them.

BT2 also sells a wide range of cosmetics. Paris Hilton chose BT2 as the launchsite of her perfum Heiress by Paris Hilton.

In the summer of 2006 Starbucks Coffee opened an outlet the first floor of BT2 Grafton Street. In front of the childrens department.