Primark opens today in Barcelona’s Diagonal Mar and this will be Primark’s first store in Catalonia. Diagonal Mar opened in 2001 and is the biggest retail centre in this region of Spain and one of the biggest in the country.

No value was placed on the contract. Quinlan Private is led by Irish financier Derek Quinlan.

Primark already operates 187 stores across Europe including Ireland, Holland, Spain and the UK. It launched in Spain in 2006 and now has 11 stores in the country.

Although it has a reputation for offering cut-price items of clothing, the company has opened stores in upmarket locations, including the Dundrum Town Centre on Dublin’s southside.

The Diagonal Mar shopping centre has about 200 shops comprising 87,000sq m of retail space, a multistorey car park and an 18-screen cinema.

Commenting on the deal, Fergus Farrell, a director of Quinlan Private, said: “Since acquiring Diagonal Mar, our primary objective has been to enhance its retail and leisure offering. We have recently completed a refurbishment of the shopping centre … to enhance returns. Following the addition of Primark to our list of retailers, we are now in the process of securing further leading fashion tenants for Diagonal Mar.”

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