Oak Mall Shopping Centre Hamilton Way

corporate.primark.com/en-gb

Primark is an international fashion retailer employing tens of thousands of colleagues across the world. Founded in Ireland in 1969 under the Penneys brand, Primark aims to provide affordable choices for everyone, from great quality everyday essentials to stand-out style across women’s, men’s and kids, as well as beauty, homeware and accessories. With a focus on creating great retail experiences, Primark has the ambition to continue to grow well into the future. Primark is working to make more sustainable fashion affordable for everyone through its Primark Cares strategy, a multi-year programme that focuses on giving clothing a longer life, protecting life on the planet and supporting the livelihoods of the people who make Primark clothes.

www.wilko.com/en-uk/corporate

From a single hardware store that began in 1930, the business expanded to have shops throughout the UK and a website that received millions of visits per week. Over the years, busy, hard-working people have come to them to get their home and garden jobs done. They’ve always listened to what customers need and they’ve always done their best to give it to them. Whether it was meeting the demands for DIY products in the 50s, launching their first wilko brand products in the 70s, or introducing online shopping in the 2000s, helping their customers enjoy getting their jobs done and making the most of their homes and gardens is what they’ve always been about.

www.mandco.com/about-us

M&Co is one of the largest, privately-owned fashion retailers in the UK and has been selling quality clothing for 50 years. Originally a small family business of only 6 shops in Glasgow owned by the McGeoch family in the 1960s, M&Co, as they are now known, has almost 300 stores nationwide. You'll find them on local high streets across the UK, from the Shetland Isles in the most northerly part of Scotland to Penzance on the edge of the south west coast of England. From their very first products 50 years ago they have focused on quality, never compromising for price. Specialising in womenswear, menswear, kidswear and homeware, they take inspiration from the world around them and the lives of their customers to create exclusively-designed ranges that are available to buy on hundreds of UK high streets and online. They process over 200,000 transactions per week and pack more than 450,000 items into M&Co carrier bags every week!

www.boots-uk.com

Boots is the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer. For over 170 years, they’ve listened, learned and innovated, and continue to challenge ourselves to improve their products and services every day. Over recent years, Boots has evolved at pace to transform into an integrated pharmacy, healthcare and retail business, serving millions of customers and patients every day. With loads of stores ranging from local community pharmacies to large destination health and beauty stores, their purpose is to support their customers and patients through every stage of their lives. They put their customers in control of their health and wellbeing and aim to unlock the beauty in everyone with our unrivalled depth and breadth of product offering.

Bargain Buys was launched in 2013 by the same father and son team who brought retail giant Poundworld to the high street. Chris Edwards and Chris Edwards Junior are at the heart of the business, ensuring that Bargain Buys remains a family-run company with down to earth family values. This means we can relate to customers in a way that many other big brands struggle to do, enabling us to offer the very best service every day.The Edwards’ family business began back in the 1970s with a market stall in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield. Over the years they’ve seen the company grow from strength to strength, with their one market stall expanding to more than 260 stores nationwide, employing more than 5,000 people across the UK.The family’s thirst for expansion is one that can’t be quenched, and it’s this drive and ambition that saw Poundworld Retail Ltd make The Sunday Times ‘Top Track 250’ list as one of the UK’s fastest growing companies of 2014.

corporate.theworks.co.uk

The Works is the UK’s leading family friendly retailer of value gifts, arts, crafts, toys, books and stationery. Their four zones of products are made to show their customers what they can ‘do’ and empowering them to do it. They have refined their book ranges, becoming a destination for kids books, growing brands in each age range, with a brilliantly priced, curated range of the very latest trending non-fiction adult books. Their Arts, Crafts and Hobbies Zone comprises a wide selection of paints, brushes, art sets, paper, canvas and craft kits that cater for the needs of beginners to experts, alongside a complementary book offer to further inspire their artistic and crafty customers. Their stationery selection includes their own- brand Paper Place high-quality fashion notebooks, writing sets, storage boxes and address books. These sit alongside our big brands offer including Bic, Helix, Xerox and Pukka.

www.bodycarestores.co.uk

Bodycare was launched in 1970 on a market stall in Skelmersdale, Lancashire and has been serving customers for more than 50 years. With their incredibly simple online experience, they’re making health and beauty shopping hassle-free. Whether shoppers are looking for a special fragrance, make up bag treat or an everyday essential, they have come to the right place. Bodycare are passionate about delivering quality brands, both big and small, to all the family at prices they'll love.

www.poundland.co.uk

Since opening their first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, Poundland have built a network of hundreds of stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value every day. They serve up to millions of customers every week from Aberdeen to Abingdon, Londonderry to Llandudno and Peterborough to Poole. They offer thousands of quality products in store with many well-known brands in shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys. Within the UK they’ve also rolled out clothing to their larger stores, offering women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and bringing new style to their stores with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.