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Superquinn is an Irish supermarket chain. The company was, until 2005, entirely privately held by the Quinn family. It is now a subsidiary of Select Retail Holdings Limited. Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Products and Services The company operates 18 supermarkets under the "Superquinn" brand and 2 convenience stores under the "Superquin Select" brand. Its own brand is Euro Shopper (formerly Thrift! - see also Yellow Pack). Superquinn is known for having a very high level of customer service compared to other supermarket chains. It is also known for having introduced a number of innovations, including Ireland's first supermarket loyalty card, SuperClub, in 1993. It also introduced self-scanning of goods by customers in a number of its outlets. Store brands are brands which are specific to a retail store. ...
The Euro Shopper logotype Euro Shopper is a discount brand of everyday commodities developed and marketed by Associated Marketing Services. ...
Yellow Pack was a brand used by the Irish supermarket chain Power Supermarkets, during the 1980s and 1990s. ...
In marketing generally and in retailing more specifically, a loyalty card, rewards card, points card, or club card is a plastic card, visually similar to a credit card or debit card, that identifies the card holder as a member in a commercial incentives programme. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Superquinn also runs the Irish Internet shopping portal Buy4Now, which provides Internet shopping services for a number of Irish retailers. Buy4Now. ...
In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ...
Criticisms The company's innovations have not all become successful. One side effort of the company was the failed bank Tusa, a joint venture with TSB Bank (now part of Permanent TSB). A joint venture with Texaco to introduce small Superquinn convience stores at petrol forecourts, SuperQ, also failed. A bank is an institution that provides financial service, particularly taking deposits and extending credit. ...
The Irish Life and Permanent is a financial institution in the Republic of Ireland created in 1999. ...
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Perhaps more importantly for the company has been its failure to expand - Superquinn has less than a third of the branches of its other full-service rivals, Tesco Ireland and Dunnes Stores, and is now even eclipsed by discount stores Aldi and Lidl, who have been very aggressive in acquiring sites compared to Superquinn. Its stores are also heavily located in the Dublin and Leinster areas (with 3 stores in Munster, and none at all in Connacht or Ulster) in contrast to the other operators who operate nationwide. Tesco Ireland Limited is a supermarket company in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Dunnes Stores is a supermarket and clothing retail chain based in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Aldi Nord logo Aldi Süd logo ALDI is an international hard discount supermarket chain based in Germany. ...
A Lidl in Cornwall, UK Lidl (either leed-ul as pronounced in recently-launched British TV commercials, or lid-ul) is a European discount supermarket chain of German origin that operates 5,000 stores. ...
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Leinster (IPA: ; Irish: Laighin or Laigin, IPA: ), one of the Provinces of Ireland, lies in the east of Ireland and comprises the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. ...
Munster (Irish: An Mhumhain, IPA: ) is the southernmost province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. ...
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Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) forms one of the four provinces of Ireland. ...
History The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk. It was set up by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin. The trading name was subsequently changed to Superquinn, in part to differentiate it from rival Quinnsworth, which had started in the early 1970s. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Dundalk (Irish: Dún Dealgan) is the county town of County Louth in the Republic of Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland. ...
Feargal Quinn is an Irish politician, businessman and an independent member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann. ...
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Tesco Ireland was formed from Power Supermarkets Ltd in 1999, more commonly known as the Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices chain of supermarkets in Ireland; the chain is a subsiduary of Tesco PLC. Tesco operates supermarkets under the Tesco and Tesco Ireland brands, as well as one hypermarket under the Tesco...
Since 1991, Feargal's son Eamonn Quinn took a key management role as deputy chairman. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In January 2005, it was announced that Superquinn is to be sold to a consortium called Select Retail Holdings. On 26 August 2005 it was announced that the sale had been completed. Simon Burke has replaced Feargal Quinn as Executive Chairman of the company, with Quinn becoming non-executive President of the business. Eamonn Quinn has left the company. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ...
See also The following page lists Irish companies or subsidiaries according to their sector. ...
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