Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational chain provider of children’s toys and entertainment products with over 200 shops throughout Ireland, the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Austria which are owned by the Smyth family.
Group revenues for 2019 are on course to be close to €1.4bn.
The company is headquartered in Lyrr Building 1 in the Mervue Business Park, Galway, Ireland, and it has additional offices in Belfast and London.
The company is run by four brothers, Tony, Padraig, Liam and Thomas Smyth. The company was founded in Claremorris, County Mayo on 23 December 1986. Smyths is Ireland’s largest toy retailer. The Globe Retail Park in Naas, Ireland was subject to a fire on 27 July 2016 that destroyed one of the shop’s stockrooms, causing the shop to temporarily close, with operations being moved until repairs could be made.