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Primark Stores Ltd.

Primark Stores Ltd is the company that owns Primark, a large clothing retail chain based in the Republic of Ireland, which operates in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, and Spain, although in Ireland it operates under the name Penneys. The company is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods plc, which is owned by Wittington Investments, a company run by the Weston Family. Founded in 1969 in Dublin, Ireland, Penneys moved into Great Britain in 1973 as Primark and by the end of May 2009, Primark had opened retail stores in Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.

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  • Facts
  • Primark currently has 189 operating stores as of May 2009. 38 in Ireland, 12 in Spain, 136 in the UK, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Portugal and 1 in Germany
  • As of late 2008, Primark employs around 27500 employees
  • In 2008 Primark was the subject of a child labour scandal, after an undercover report by BBC’s Panorama found that some Primark supplier factories in India were found to be employing children in the production of Primark products
  • There has been disagreement over the pronunciation of ‘Primark’, with the general pronunciation in England being ‘PRY-mark’, and the rest of the UK (Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) pronouncing it ‘PREE-mark’.

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