Tom Moynihan

/PRNewswire/ -- Innovative product development company and multi-channel lifestyle retailer Brookstone, Inc. announced today that, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, net sales increased 6.1% to $496.8 million and EBITDA increased 44.6% to $23.3 million from the comparable period last year. Net sales in the Retail channel increased $2.5 million or approximately 1% to $372.4 million and same-store sales increased 2.5% as compared to fiscal year 2010. These increases were due in part to improved selling efforts at our retail stores, offset by a net decrease in the number of stores from 307 to 294. For the