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Dunnes Stores is an Irish multinational retail chain that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. It was founded by Ben Dunne in 1944. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain. [5]
Ben Dunne was born in Cork on 11 March 1949, [3] to Nora Maloney and Ben Dunne, a businessman who founded Dunnes Stores.He was the youngest of six children. Together with his family, he lived at Browningstown Park on the Douglas Road and Ringmahon House on the Mahon peninsula.
The tenth store, in Wexford, opened in 1955, and the first store in Dublin opened in 1958. In 1960, Dunne launched the store's first own-brand product, a ladies jacket under the label St Bernard, modelled on the Marks & Spencer St Michael brand. [5] By 1964, Dunnes Stores had expanded into grocery and had an annual turnover of £6 million ...
Iceland Operated from 1996 to 2005 when all six stores closed due to financial issues. Iceland stores reopened in 2008. However in June 2023, Metron Stores, trading as Iceland, was ordered to recall all imported meat products by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, due to traceability concerns. In the same month, Metron said it was insolvent ...
Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908) (1908–1983), Irish businessman who founded Dunnes Stores Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1949) (1949–2023), Irish businessman, son of the above Topics referred to by the same term
In early 1986, Deerland Construction Limited, a construction company based in Kilkenny, announced plans to construct a 107,000 square feet (9,900 m 2) 40 unit shopping complex with over 500 parking spaces in the former Flanagan's Sawmills site at the junction of Friars Mill Road and Harbour Street, including a 41,000 square feet (3,800 m 2) Dunnes Stores outlet at a total cost of £5 million.
JC's is a formerly independent supermarket located in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland.The supermarket was purchased by Dunnes Stores (which operates a supermarket next door) in 2019 from the Savage family.
The store was sold to Busbys of Bradford in 1953 who rebranded the store under the Busbys name. Busbys was itself purchased by Debenhams in 1958. The store was renamed Debenhams in 1973 and continued to trade from the same site until Debenhams' closure in 2021. 1953 [190] [271] A H Bull Reading: Bought by Selfridge Provincial Stores.