FAO Schwarz will be in the area and will be joined by another well-known US brand, Pottery Barn, which will bring its nursery range to Ireland for the first time. The Irish FAO Schwarz shop entails an investment of €1m and will employ 40 to 50, according to Donald McDonald, managing director of Brown Thomas Arnotts. McDonald said Arnotts had entered into an exclusive partnership with FAO Schwarz and described it as a 'huge coup' for the Henry Street store. Arnotts will have a replica of the FAO clock tower, which will activate every hour and feature a toy train and soldiers. "We go back to 2015 when Selfridges took over, it was always our plan to understand the Arnotts customer and understand the business.

Source: Irish Independent May 19, 2019 16:52 UTC