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In 1978, Dunnes purchased Crumlin Shopping Centre in Dublin, which had been built four years earlier with 41 units including 2 large units, and having Dunnes Stores as anchor. [12] [13] Dunnes Stores on High Street, Belfast. Dunnes added its first store in Northern Ireland in 1971. The company continued to expand its retail business, and by the ...
The market, which closed in 1981, is commemorated with a plaque, while Sinnotts Bar on South King Street is the only trader from the original site that remains. The site was put up for sale in 1980, and was purchased by Patrick Gallagher in April 1981 for £10.5 million.
Dunnes opened a second branch of his new Dunnes Stores on North Main Street, Cork, which were followed by stores in Waterford and Mallow. 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 ...
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. 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 store on Grafton Street became famous for its Christmas displays and Santa's grotto. [3] [5] Switzers purchased Cash & Co. of Cork in 1962, Todd's of Limerick in 1963, and Moon's of Galway in 1969. [3] In 1971, Switzers was purchased by Waterford Glass and House of Fraser. Later, in 1985, House of Fraser took complete control of the company.
The 17.7-acre parcel eyed for the project is located across Grafton Street from Roosevelt Elementary School, near a small plaza housing Stop & Shop. 'Dumping ground' off Grafton St. proposed as ...
On 19 July 1984, Mary Manning, a shop worker in the Henry Street, Dublin outlet of Dunnes Stores, refused to handle the sale of grapefruit from South Africa. [1] Her union, IDATU, had issued directions to its members not to handle South African produce in protest of South African apartheid policies. When Manning and shop steward Karen Gearon ...
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.