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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]
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Margaret Dunne was born in Cork in 1942, the eldest of the six children of Nora Maloney and Ben Dunne, who founded Dunnes Stores.One of her brothers was Ben Dunne Jnr, who preceded her as CEO of Dunnes Stores, the eldest is Francis, usually known as Frank, while her sisters included Anne, Thérèse and Elizabeth.
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.
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 ...
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.
Dunnes Stores opened a flagship store alongside a multi-storey car park on the site of Spaights (the building it replaced) in 2001. [ 1 ] Since 2000, the street has changed significantly, with the streets aesthetics changed to mirror the development of other streets in the city centre.
The centre comprises 53,000 m 2 of retail space, spread across three levels, and as of 2016 has up to 163 stores. It has an annual footfall of 21.7 million. [citation needed] There are over 2500 car parking spaces. The anchor tenants are Dunnes Stores, Penneys and Tesco. When The Square opened it was the largest shopping centre in Ireland.