Luxury shirt retailer Thomas Pink is poised to ramp up its international presence starting at the end of this year and continuing through 2009.

Managing director Jonathan Heilbron said stores would open in Delhi in the early part of the year and be followed by a shop in Hong Kong.
He said plans were also in place to launch branches in Doha, Qatar, and Kuwait and an outlet in Jakarta would welcome its first customers by the end of this year.

The retailer already has an extensive international store network with branches in China, France, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and the US, as well as a store in Dubai Mall that opened at the beginning of this month.

Heilbron said that the stand-alone store in Istanbul’s Kanyon centre, which opened in 2006, had proved problematic, because of the poor performance of the scheme generally. He added that the Turkish offer is now housed in the Harvey Nichols store that anchors the Kanyon scheme.


In the year to December 31, 2007, Thomas Pink posted sales of£25.5 million, up 4.5 per cent on the previous year. Pre-tax profits jumped 24 per cent to nearly£2 million.

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