{"id":149,"date":"2016-10-28T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:02:19","slug":"early-christmas-brown-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/early-christmas-brown-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Christmas for Brown Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lights went up on Brown Thomas today as the start of the Christmas retail season commenced.<\/p>\n<p>Today we discovered that the upmarket fashion retailer enjoyed a bumper 2015 with sales rising by 115 and underlying profit increasing by more than 60% .<\/p>\n<p>Latest numbers for Brown Thomas show it achieved turnover of 172.5 million euro in 2015 up from 155.4 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Profit after tax rose to 15.6 million euro .<\/p>\n<p>Sales at the flagship Grafton Store rose by 15% online revenues increased by 1345 albeit of a modest base.<\/p>\n<p>Brown Thomas launched its new website in 2015 and plans to add additional features after Christmas .<\/p>\n<p>A the Christmas sales season starts this weekend the retailer hopes to benefit from the uplift in the economy .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lights went up on Brown Thomas today as the start of the Christmas retail season commenced. Today we discovered that the upmarket fashion retailer enjoyed a bumper 2015 with sales rising by 115 and underlying profit increasing by more than 60% . Latest numbers for Brown Thomas show it achieved turnover of 172.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christmas","tag-sales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}