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Smooth Company bids for success with Dutch launch

Áine Kennedy’s haircare company becomes first Irish beauty brand to launch at Netherlands’ department store chain

Smooth Company’s Áine Kennedy: ‘My screen time is outrageous. I don’t have a work-life balance at the moment’

Dublin-based entrepreneur on the bootstrapping of her TikTok sensation company and learning to back yourself against bigger fish

RTÉ spent over €140,000 on make-up over last two years

Brown Thomas was most favoured outlet for cosmetics with almost half of spend going to high end department store

‘Forget about glamour’: Jonathan Anderson offers advice to would-be fashion designers as he receives TCD honour

Dior creative director honoured by Trinity College Dublin’s University Philosophical Society

Blend it like Beckham with Victoria’s new range of make-up brushes

Make-up brushes inspired by artisanal calligraphy pens and cutlery? Only Victoria Beckham Beauty could pull that off

Brian O’Driscoll issued with compliance notice by consumer watchdog over ‘misleading’ social media post

Fitness coach Caroline O’Mahony, who has 882,000 Instagram followers, found to have failed to use appropriate labels for commercial content

Brown Thomas spring show: Playful bows and pastels accentuate fluidity and femininity

Floaty, soft elegance and statement outerwear are key looks for the season ahead

Hammerson’s Irish results a mixed bag

Company jointly owns the Dundrum Town Centre with German insurer Allianz

Victoria Beckham in Dublin: ‘I got married here a long, long time ago so it’s always great to come back’

Fashion designer and former Spice Girl causes a stir in Brown Thomas on Wednesday evening

Nineties hair is making a comeback. Here’s how to get a gravity-defying blowout at home

If big hair has a patron saint, it’s Sam McKnight – and he’s bringing the bouffant back

‘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

Dublin City Council acted beyond its powers with traffic changes along quays, group claims

Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance, led by solicitor Noel Smyth, is pursuing a judicial review of the decision

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

‘There’s no middleman getting a mark-up’: why Irish high-end bedding company Amurelle founder took the direct route

Hannah Sanusi says she couldn’t find the kind of quality she was looking for in Ireland, so she moved to fill the gap in the market

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 shoppers warm to sustainable bag charge

Upmarket retailer pledges to put the profits from the paper bag scheme towards funding the planting of 100,000 trees over the next decade

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

Victoria Beckham Beauty is (finally) available in Ireland. Here are the best products to try

Chic, refined and definitely posh – this quietly luxurious brand is poised to shake up make-up bags across the country

Simone Gannon: The new beauty products I really rate

Cute pots of cream blush, a do-it-all face palette and more

Traffic plan will cost Dublin €400m a year, says report for traders opposed to car curbs

Economic analysis submitted to council chief Richard Shakespeare warns of job losses

Brown Thomas Arnotts fashion buying director Shelly Corkery leaves to ‘explore new opportunities’

Corkery had spent 24 years with the Irish department store retailer

Simone Gannon: Four great lazy-girl tanning products. No mess, fuss, or tutorial-watching required

Look no further for great tan products for a low-stress faux glow

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

Brown Thomas SS24: The power shoulder is a definite trend in a diverse and dramatic spring show

Expectations were high as spring fashion shows are early indicators of the new season and new beginnings, uplifting the spirits after the long winter

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

Working on a window wonderland: Creating ‘beyond ordinary’ shopfront displays for Christmas

Shop windows play a key role in creating the feel-good atmosphere on shopping streets that helps to draw customers inside

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

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

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