"be fit for dogs or pigs. A year and a half later an SOS note from an alleged Chinese torture victim was found in socks purchased from Primark. Primark Primark (; named Penneys in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish fast fashion retailer headquartered in Dublin, and a subsidiary of ABF. The company's first store was founded by Arthur Ryan on behalf of the Weston family in June 1969 on 47 Mary Street, Dublin, the store remains operative to this day. Success in Ireland led to expansion to the United Kingdom, and Penneys opened a large store in Belfast"
"outside Ireland and the United Kingdom opened in Madrid, Spain. After 10 years of constructing a chain of around 40 stores in Spain, Primark opened another store in Madrid in October 2015, the second biggest in the chain. In December 2008, Primark opened in the Netherlands, followed by Portugal, Germany and Belgium in 2009. Primark opened its first store in Austria on 27 September 2012 in Innsbruck. It expanded to France in 2013, in Marseille. The first Italian store opened in 2014. In 2015, Primark opened its first United States store in Downtown Crossing, Boston, in the location that was"
"once the flagship store of Filene's, later NYC, Philadelphia, and Danbury.In July 2018, it was revealed that Primark was entering Poland. On 28 August 2018, fire seriously damaged or destroyed the listed Belfast store as it came close to the end of a major redevelopment. The Belfast store was at risk of collapse, but was reopened on 8 December 2018. Next year (2019) it will open a store in Ljubljana, Slovenia, taking Primark to its 12th country. It has also signed a lease for a store in Warsaw - its first in Poland. Primark operates stores in the following countries:"
"the name registered. The name ""Primark"" was then invented to use outside Ireland. Primark opened its current international headquarters in 2015 in a redeveloped Dublin building, Arthur Ryan House, formerly Chapel House. On 28 August 2018, a fire started on the roof of a Primark store in Belfast, destroying the building and emitting plumes of thick, black smoke over the city. The building was a former bank with historical value that had been renovated previously. Primark offers a diverse range of products, including newborn and children's clothing, women's wear, men's wear, home ware, accessories, footwear, beauty products and confectionery. Starting"
"Arthur Ryan Arthur Ryan is the founder, chairman, and former chief executive of Primark. The company Primark trades under the name of Penneys in the Republic of Ireland. Arthur Ryan was born the son of a Cork-born insurance clerk in 1935, and went to the Synge Street CBS in Dublin after moving to the city with his family. After emigrating to London, he entered the genteel world of gentlemen's tailoring as a tie buyer at Swan & Edgar. He also worked for London fashion wholesaler Carr & McDonald. From there, he returned to Dublin and a job at Dunnes Stores"
"same ones to use when the first ones worn out, discard them after a few wears and then come back for another batch of new outfits."" Primark owns over 350 stores. The largest Primark store is located on Market Street, Manchester, England, occupying of retail space across three floors. A brand new, larger store is however being opened in Birmingham later in 2018. The company expanded rapidly in the UK in the mid-2000s. In 2005, it bought the Littlewoods retail stores for £409m, retaining 40 of the 119 stores and selling the rest. In May 2006, the first Primark store"
"2005, when Primark acquired a huge portfolio of Littlewoods stores. Meanwhile, close attention to catwalk trends made it chic as well as cheap. It went from being the ""shop that nobody admitted going to"" to a Mecca for celebrity shoppers. It was ""Primani"", darling – or ""Pradamark"". It now accounts for over a third of ABF's operating profits. In 2009, Ryan gave up his day-to-day control of the firm as chief executive but became chairman instead. Arthur Ryan Arthur Ryan is the founder, chairman, and former chief executive of Primark. The company Primark trades under the name of Penneys in"
"a proposal on compensation to the victims. The agreement was signed by Primark, Loblaw, Bonmarche and El Corte Ingles. Bonmarché Bonmarché ( ) is a clothing retailer based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The business was founded in 1982, and was acquired by the Peacock Group in July 2002. The clothing retailer has over 380 stores nationwide, employs over 4,000 people and is the United Kingdom's largest budget fashion retailer selling womenswear in a wide range of sizes – especially plus size clothing. Ranges include casual and formal separates, outerwear, swimwear, lingerie nightwear and accessories, all designed for larger women. In"
"Nordstrom Nordstrom Inc. () is an American chain of luxury department stores, also operating in Canada and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1901 by Swedish American John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin, the company began as a shoe retailer and expanded its inventory to include clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, and fragrances. Select Nordstrom stores also include wedding and home furnishings departments. The company also has in-house cafes, restaurants and espresso bars. Nordstrom has 380 stores operating in 40 US states, Puerto Rico and Canada, a number which includes 122 full-line stores and 239 Nordstrom Rack stores, seven"
"Primark, an Irish-based retail chain, which trades in Ireland as Penneys. In 2015, three Insomnia concession stores were rolled out at Penneys in Waterford, Swords and Athlone. 2015 marked a significant year for the company: opening its 100th store, opening its first UK store, partnering with both Debenhams and Primark as well as selling 22 million hot beverages per year. Insomnia has partnered with a number of retailers, including Eason, Fresh, Meadows & Byrne, An Post, Heaton's, Compass Catering, Aramark Londis, Maxol, Primark and Debenhams. It also has long standing partnerships with SPAR and EUROSPAR. 2015 saw the expansion of"
"Primark, Loblaw, Bonmarché and El Corte Inglés. In June 2014, two labels both stitched with SOS messages were separately found in Swansea purchased garments. Primark argued the supply chain showed these label messages were a hoax. Also in June 2014, a customer from Ireland found an SOS note wrapped in a prison ID card in the pocket of trousers purchased from a Primark store several years earlier. The letter was written in Chinese and alleged that prisoners were forced to work ""like oxen"" making fashion clothes for export for 15 hours per day, and the food they were given wouldn't"
"brand names in each country, according to Euromonitor International's 2013 reports. Procter and Gamble held the highest retail value share percentages in twenty countries: with Fairy brand, United Kingdom, Estonia, Saudi Arabia (56%), United Arab Emirates (34%), Latvia (35%), Lithuania (32%), Finland (23%), Serbia (38%), Bosnia-Herzegovina (30%), Georgia (26%) and Uzbekistan (26%); Sweden (39%) with brand Yes, the Swedish Fairy brand; Greece (40%) with Fairy and Ava brands; with Fairy and Mif brands, Kazakhstan (28%) and Russia (29%); and Ukraine (41%) with Fairy and Gala brands; Canada (39%) with Cascade and Dawn brands; United States (52%) with Cascade brand; Mexico"
"through Richemont, by the South African Rupert family, and Elle Pagels, a 24-year-old granddaughter of Pierre Cartier. Cartier operates more than 200 stores in 125 countries, with three Temples (Historical Maison) worldwide: In October 2014 the first blocking order against trademark infringing consumer goods was passed against the major UK ISPs by Richemont, Cartier International and Montblanc to block several domains selling trademark infringing products. Cartier (jeweler) Société Cartier (; ) is a French luxury goods conglomerate company which designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells jewellery and watches. Founded in Paris, France, in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, the company remained under"
"4 Kosovo: 2 Albania: 1 Tunisia : 1 Qatar: 1 Lindex Lindex is a Swedish owned fashion chain within the Stockmann Group. The company has around 5000 employees and approximately 480 stores in 18 markets in the Nordic countries, the Baltic States, Central Europe and the Middle East. In addition to sales in store, Lindex also offers their fashion assortment via Shop Online in 28 countries; all EU countries plus Norway. The company has had a rapid international expansion and sales growth. The assortment includes several different concepts within women's wear, lingerie, kids’ wear and cosmetics. In 1954, Ingemar Boman"
"IKEA IKEA (, ) is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008. It was founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old carpenter, Ingvar Kamprad, who was listed by ""Forbes"" in 2015 as one of the ten richest people in the world, worth more than $40 billion. The company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad (name of founder), Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his"
"China, Latvia and United Kingdom. The number of Bershka stores in each country or region: Bershka Bershka () is a clothing retailer company. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also own the brands of Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home). The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. It now has over 1000 stores in 71 countries around the world. The sales made from Bershka represent 10% of the Inditex group. On 6 September 2011, the company (alongside its sister brands)"
"department store chains in Finland are Stockmann, a listed company, and Sokos, owned by a nationwide retailing cooperative. The Stockmann department store in central Helsinki is the biggest department store in the Nordic countries and a famous landmark of Helsinki. France's major upscale department stores are Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps, which both have flagship stores on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris and branches around the country. The first department store in France, Le Bon Marché in Paris, was founded in 1838 and is now owned by the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. La Samaritaine, another upscale department store also owned by"
"Procter & Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by British American William Procter and Irish American James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer health, and personal care and hygiene products; these products are organized into several segments including Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. Before the sale of Pringles to the Kellogg Company, its product portfolio also included foods, snacks, and beverages. In 2014, P&G recorded $83.1 billion in sales. On August"
"PriceRunner The website PriceRunner is a price comparison service launched in Sweden in 1999. It allows users to compare prices on a range of products. The commercial headquarters are in London, England, and it also has offices in Stockholm, Sweden; Nykøbing Falster, Denmark; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; California, United States and Shanghai, China. PriceRunner was launched in 1999 as a price comparison service based in Sweden and originally financed by a venture capitalist group called Cell Ventures, who were later acquired by NewMedia Spark. It launched the service in the UK and Denmark in 2000. Initially, they had planned to"
"Bershka Bershka () is a clothing retailer company. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also own the brands of Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home). The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. It now has over 1000 stores in 71 countries around the world. The sales made from Bershka represent 10% of the Inditex group. On 6 September 2011, the company (alongside its sister brands) launched into the online market in France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,"
"secured the prestigious “Retailer of the Year Award” in 2015. Hunkemöller Hunkemöller is a clothing manufacturer from the Netherlands, specialising in underclothes and lingerie. The company was founded in 1886 in Amsterdam as a special shop for corsets. Nowadays it is an omni-channel brand with more than 6,200 employees in more than 23 countries. Hunkemöller is one of the field leaders in ladies underwear, especially in the Low Countries. Wilhelm Hunkemöller and his wife Josephina Lexis founded the company in 1886 as a special shop for corsets and bustles in Amsterdam. In the beginning they used to produce in their"
"wait for interest to accrue, and then reimburse IKEA the principal. IKEA has denied complicity in Scandinavica, but has begun an internal investigation to learn more. IKEA has over 400 stores around the world. The countries with the most IKEA stores are Germany and the United States. IKEA IKEA (, ) is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells , kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world's largest furniture retailer since at least 2008. It was founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old carpenter, Ingvar Kamprad, who was"
"nine countries: Germany (29%); Romania (35%); Algeria (22%) with Isis Pril; Egypt with KGaA, Port Said Detergents, and Pril brands; Croatia (22%) with Pur and Somat brands; Slovakia (33%) with Somat brand; Slovenia (35%) with Pril brand; Hungary (30%) with Pur and Somat brands; and Azerbaijan (22%) with Pril and Pemolux brands. Reckitt Benckiser held highest retail value share percentages in nine countries: Italy (31%), Spain (29%); with Finish brand: Australia (38%), New Zealand (38%), Austria (32%), Ireland (29%), and Israel (27%); Denmark (30%) with Neophos brand; and Portugal (22%) with Calgonit brand. Colgate-Palmolive held highest retail value share percentages"
"Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tootsies, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Brown’s, Isetan, Joyce and others. In the 1990s, after adopting two children in Brazil, Dominique decided to set up in Bali, where she opened a craft jewellery and interior design studio, leveraging on the renowned expertise of local Balinese artisans whilst establishing important partnerships with Indian and Thai studios. This provided her with new sources of inspiration for creating pieces bringing in traditional and eco-friendly methods, involving, for example, recycled materials such as discarded wood from railway tracks. Dominique returned to Europe in 2000 to concentrate on her children’s education. Working"
"York City. In 2014 the company received criticism for releasing a television commercial around Mother's Day which featured a woman poking a hole in a condom, displaying the words ""You decide"" on the screen. The company defended the ad. Desigual shops are located in Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Curaçao, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,"
"store.. In South Korea the original stores are now called ""CU"" and operated separately by BGF Retail. It used to be the largest chain store in South Korea. The first FamilyMart opened in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture in 1973. FamilyMart currently has franchise stores in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam. In October 2013, FamilyMart opened its 10,000th store in Japan. Operations in certain parts of Asia, especially China, continue to expand. As of January 2018, there are 24,243 stores worldwide, with fast growth in Asia outside Japan. There are 17,409 stores in Japan, 3,165 stores in Taiwan, 2,177"
"Decathlon Group Decathlon S.A. () is a French sporting goods retailer. With over 1400 stores in 45 countries, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France in 1976, founded by Michel Leclercq. It started to expand abroad a decade later, to Germany in 1986, Spain in 1992, Italy in 1998, Portugal, the United Kingdom in 1999, China in 2003, India in 2009, Hong Kong in 2013, Malaysia in 2016 and Southeast Asia in 2012 and South Africa, Philippines in 2017 and Australia in 2018. The company employs more than 82,000"
"C&A C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany. It has retail stores in many European countries. It serves only the largest markets of Asia, North America and South America. C&A's brands include Angelo Litrico, Canda, Clockhouse, Here+There, Palomino, Rodeo (ski and snowboard clothes), Westbury, Yessica, Yessica Pure, and Your Sixth Sense. The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company Cofra Holding AG. The company's success has led the family to be considered, by the Dutch, among the wealthiest in the Netherlands. The Brenninkmeijer family,"
"Reserved (retail) Reserved is a Polish clothing store chain, part of LPP, which has more than 1,700 stores located in 20 countries. The LPP company was established in 1989 and the first stores under the Reserved fashion brand were opened in 1999. The founders of the company are Marek Piechocki, a civil engineering graduate from the Gdańsk University of Technology and businessman Jerzy Lubianiec. Besides Poland, stores are located in Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Ukraine, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Great Britain and in Israel. In"
"Stockmann Stockmann plc is a Finnish listed company engaged in the retail trade. The Group has three business divisions: Lindex, Stockmann Retail and Real Estate. Stockmann was established in 1862 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2012. Stockmann has 8 department stores and 425 fashion stores in 17 countries. The flagship store in downtown Helsinki covers of retail space and welcomes more than 17 million visitors every year. It is the largest department store in the Nordic countries. Stockmann was established by Georg Franz Stockmann, a German merchant from Lübeck. In 1859 Stockmann became the manager of a store in"
"mail-order firm known as Laidlaw Leeds founded in 1909). Historical department stores include DIC. Discount chains include The Warehouse, Kmart Australia, and the now-defunct DEKA. In Norway, most department stores are located in Oslo. The most well known are Christiania Glasmagasin, Steen & Strøm, Åhléns, House of Oslo and Illums. Lahore boasts H. Karim Buksh, Jalal sons and Potpourri stores with branches throughout the cities' commercial areas. Many urban centers of Pakistan now have large and spacious Metro Cash and Carry or Hyperstar, Chase and Imtiaz stores. Panama's first department stores such as Bazaar Francés, La Dalia and La Villa"
"sold for an undisclosed sum to private equity group Sun European Partners. Bonmarché was founded in 1982, by Parkash Singh Chima. The Sikh businessman arrived in the United Kingdom in 1950, from the Punjab and settled in Ely, Cambridgeshire, from where he launched his door-to-door sales of clothing items that were in demand after the Second World War. The family bought two retail clothing firms in 1982 – Wiltex and Hartley – which had twenty six indoor market locations across the north of England. Mr Chima moved to Huddersfield and ran the business with two of his sons Gurchait and"
"Indomaret PT. Indomarco Prismatama or Indomaret is a chain of retail convenience stores from Indonesia, with over 11,000 stores across Indonesia. It is the first and largest chain of this kind of store in Indonesia. Indomaret is a subsidiary of Salim Group. Its headquarter is in Jakarta. Indomaret is a minimarket network that provides daily needs. It has a store area of about 200m. The first official Indomaret store was opened in Ancol, North Jakarta in November 1988. By 2014, Indomaret had 10,600 outlets. 60% of the total outlets are self-owned and franchised outlets while the remaining 40% are company-owned,"