Boots flagship store set to create 50 jobs in Cork letting coup

INTERNATIONAL pharmacy chain Boots is to make a giant, acre-sized footprint in Cork city centre, and promises 50 new jobs as a result.

The company has this week committed to a major 40,000sq ft new flagship store in developer Owen O’Callaghan’s Half Moon Street development, at the corner of Paul Street and Emmet Place.

The letting coup – one of the biggest non-food retail moves in the city in years – comes at a time of general retail slump. The deal will see the pharmacy and beauty company trade over two of the four floors they are leasing in the Wilson Architecture-designed building.