Bond Street is now lost as a road in Luton, it would have run roughly where Primark now is.
On 24 April 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed in Savar, a sub-district near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
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In 1981, the IRA snatched department store boss Ben Dunne; two years later, they tried to kidnap Galen Weston, scion of the Canadian family behind Primark's owner, food and retail conglomerate Associated British Foods (ABF).
It is the main shopping centre in the town, with over 40 shops, including Primark (its anchor store), Next, HMV, Waterstone's, W H Smith, Topshop and Tesco Express.
There was also formerly a Littlewoods store in the centre, but this closed following Primark's purchase of the Littlewoods store estate, as Primark already operated an existing store nearby.