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Dunnes Stores has 142 stores all through Ireland, the UK and Spain, utilizing very nearly 15,000 individuals. We are Ireland's biggest and driving retailer giving a one of a kind contribution of style, food and homewares in one area. Our story started more than 70 years prior, with one man and his vision of Better Value. 

Anybody might have done what I did...
"Anybody might have done what I did - yet they didn't get it done. That is the main distinction."
- Ben Dunne, organizer of Dunnes Stores 

BEGINNINGS
Our organizer Ben Dunne was brought into the world in 1908 in Rostrevor, Down. He tried sincerely even as a kid, choosing berries and aiding in a butcher's. Dunne would have liked to set aside the admission to emigrate to America, to look for his fortune. In any case, his desires changed when his ability and drive were seen by a nearby money manager, who offered him a spot as an understudy draper in Anderson's of Drogheda in 1926. He later portrayed this as the "defining moment" in his life. Dunne at first labored for quite some time without pay prior to procuring only 50 shillings every week. He ventured to every part of the nation learning the materials exchange, winding up in Roches Stores, Cork. It was there that he met his better half Nora. They were to be hitched 44 years and had 6 youngsters. Find more information about Dunnes Stores Interview Guide

STRIKING OUT ALONE
Roches Stores was a laid out draper, and Ben Dunne immediately rose to turn into a Senior Buyer. His prosperity proceeded and he was before long requested to regulate their whole curtain business. He concurred, relying on the prerequisite that he would get a compensation rise. In any case, the proprietors rejected, saying that he would then procure more than any of them. Dunne answered "And I'm worth more also". There and afterward, he chose to leave Roches Stores and set up all alone. 

THE FIRST STORE
The primary store in Cork 1944
On 31 March 1944, Dunne utilized his investment funds to open the very first Dunnes Stores on Patrick Street in Cork. Word spread rapidly through the city of the deals on offer. This Essencial information about Sales Interview Questions Will help you. Individuals overflowed the store to purchase quality dress at pre-war costs in what the future held 'free for all'.

A window was constrained in and the police must be called to manage the energetic groups. The words Better Value were decorated across the shop and those first customers knew the reality of Ben Dunne's way of thinking as well as we do today.

THE IDEA SPREADS
Following this achievement, further stores opened around the country during the 1950s. Regular food items were acquainted with Dunnes Stores in 1960. At first boxes of apples and oranges were sold. Organic product was costly at that point and Ben Dunne once more offered Better Value than any other person around. Over the long run, our food choice has developed and that soul of good worth has stayed solid. Presently we offer a wide scope of cautiously obtained food sources from both nearby Irish providers and abroad.

VISIONARY ACTION
Inside a store 1957
Dunne opened his first Dublin branch in 1957 on Henry Street followed by a super-store on South Great Georges Street in 1960. This was a 'individual decision' store - the first of its sort in Ireland.

Customers were permitted to peruse the things on racks prior to making a buy - a totally novel thought in Irish retailing. So started the point of Dunnes Stores to advance to put clients first.

Development CONTINUES
By 1965, Dunnes Stores had extended significantly. Ben Dunne again altered Irish retailing, this time by building the first away mall in Cornelscourt. Individuals made the excursion, wondering for no specific reason, and remained for the Better Value.
It was a significant change from customarily town or city centered retailing. However the thought was at first addressed by specialists, it was a resonating achievement despite everything stays one of our best stores.

Going UP AND OUT
From the 1970s onwards, Dunnes Stores extended the whole way across Ireland and further abroad. In 1971, our first Northern Irish store opened, and numerous others before long followed. Development went on during the 1980s in Spain, and later into Scotland and England.

114 branches in the Republic of Ireland
17 in Northern Ireland
3 in England
3 in Scotland
5 in Spain
Grant WINNING EXCELLENCE
In 1970, Ben Dunne was regarded abroad by the US National Retail Merchants Association as 'Most Outstanding World Retailer'. Every individual who worked with him said he had an intuitive feel for what his clients needed. Staff recalled that him as "somewhat of a frequently extreme yet generally fair." virtuoso." Shortly after Dunne died, a letter to the Cork Examiner in April 1983 honored him. It expressed gratitude toward him for "making the sun sparkle" in the existences of youthful Irish housewives during the 1950s, by guaranteeing great quality products at low costs were accessible to everybody.

A BRIGHT FUTURE
Dunnes Stores Cork tod  ay
In the visionary soul of Ben Dunne, we keep on advancing. By endeavoring to be a top notch retailer, Dunnes Stores means to convey the best to our clients. Our contemporary style and homewares assortments incorporate coordinated efforts with driving Irish fashioners Michael Mortell, Peter O'Brien, Paul Costelloe, Carolyn Donnelly, Leigh Tucker, Helen James, Joanne Hynes, Paul Galvin, Francis Brennan, Sonya Lennon and Brendan Courtney and proficient golf player Pádraig Harrington. We likewise keep on creating in-house names Savida and Gallery. Our clients can now shop on the web or in one of our 142 stores for the most popular trends, slick homewares and quality-guaranteed food.

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