Arnotts

Arnotts can refer to;

Arnotts (Ireland)

Arnotts is the oldest and largest department store in Dublin, Ireland. Its flagship store is located on Henry Street on the north side of the city centre.

In July 2010 Arnotts was taken over by Anglo Irish Bank and Ulster Bank due to large outstanding loans on its failed "Northern Quarter" property development.

In 2015 the store was taken over by the Selfridges Group.

History

The store has its origins in a business founded in 1843 at 14 Henry Street by George Cannock and Andrew White. In 1845 two bankers, Andrew and Patrick Reid became partners in the business. In 1848 White died, and the entrepreneur John Arnott took shares in the company. In 1865 Cannock departed the business, and the business was renamed as Arnotts.

The main shop occupies much of the block behind the GPO to the west of O'Connell Street, between Henry Street and Abbey Street, covering an area of some 300,000 square feet. The original store was completely destroyed in a fire on 4 May 1894, and a new building constructed in the following year. The main entrance is on the pedestrianised Henry Street. Across O'Connell Street in North Earl Street was Arnotts sister store Boyers & Co, which closed down on 31 January 2016.

Arnotts (Scotland)

Arnotts was a department store in Glasgow, Scotland. Originally a subsidiary of the Dublin department store, Arnotts, it was acquired by House of Fraser and merged with neighbouring department store Robert Simpson & Sons to trade as Arnott Simpson. Further department stores acquired by House of Fraser were re-branded as Arnott Simpson until the Arnotts trading name was adopted for the majority of the group's stores in Scotland, including one (i.e. not all) of its Edinburgh stores, on North Bridge. House of Fraser closed its last remaining Arnotts store, that in Paisley, in January 2004.

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