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Primark's Corporate Social Responsibility

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Corporate social responsibility is a corporation 's activities to appraise and have duties towards the company’s impacts on environmental and social success (Investopedia, 2007). Primark is one of the largest cheap clothing retailer which originates from Ireland. The first store opens in Dublin in the year 1969, in the name Penneys (Primark, 2015). Today Primark operates over 270 stores and recently started in Boston, US with its first store. The essay focuses on how the Primark has upheld its duties towards its stakeholders and society. Primark sources its main products from China, India and Bangladesh which are at the apex in garment manufacturing. Workers in this country are the most unguarded piece if supply chain (Primark, 2015). Therefore,

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