Eason & Son
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Eason & Son (or Eason's as it is more comonily known) is a major chain of stores which specilise in books, stationary, news/magazines, cards and gifts based in the Republic of Ireland. 58 Eason stores exsist throughout the island of Ireland. Eason is also a major Irish distributor of newspapers and magazines, both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The chain is headquartered in Dublin and employees 1,784 staff. The company, which is privately held, had a profit of €9.7m in 2003 on a turnover of €372m.
Northern Ireland division
Eason's division in Northern Ireland is called "Eason and Son (N.I.) Ltd" with this division being the densest (28 branches - 48% of the company's total stores in the smallest area). This is partly due to the takeover of the company "N.P.O. UK Ltd" which specilised in stationary. Most ex. NPO stores havn't been refitted as of yet however Eason has maintained a fairly good colour balance and uniformity between branches.
Technical
Eason tills use "APS PayPoint" software which is used on dedicated ePOS hardware manufactured by Epson however some ex. NPO branch use PayPoint on standard pc's running Windows 2000 (some are Windows 98) manufactured by HP.
Credit Card hardware is separate from the tills and is manufactured by Ingenico Fortronic. This system is very slow and inconvient as staff have to usually share few units amounst loads of tills and since they use standard dial up connections, the system is very slow; however, this has saved Eason money on implementing ISDN hardware and Credit Card software into PayPoint.
Under the clock at Eason's largest store (on O'Connell Street, Dublin) is a well known meeting spot for Dubliners.
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