Primarks 50yrs with £100m for new stores

Investment shows faith in high street

- GRAHAM HISCOTT

BUDGET fashion giant Primark has confirmed plans to pump more than £100million into bricks-and-mortar shops this year as it marks half a century on the English high street.

The booming business will open at least three new stores and extend or revamp more than a dozen others.

In all, the plans will create nearly 700 jobs. Primark's decision to invest in real shops proves it thinks there is plenty of life yet in the British high street.

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