Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Primark
Parallel form(s) of name
- Trades as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
13 June 1969 - Present
History
Penneys was founded by Arthur Ryan in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Penneys trades as Primark outside of Ireland because the name is owned elsewhere by American retailer J. C. Penney. The first UK Primark store opened in Derby in 1973, with the first store in mainland Europe opening in Madrid in 2006 and the first American store opening in Boston in 2015.