Menarys

Menarys store in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, August 2009

Menarys is a Northern Ireland-based department store, operating twenty stores under their own name, as well as eleven stores under the 'Tempest' brand and an online store Menarys.com which launched in May 2010. Their head office is in Moygashel, Dungannon.

The group was founded by Joseph Alexander, a draper in Cookstown in 1923, who added a store in Dungannon. Stores owned by Menary Brothers in the Craigavon area were acquired in the 1970s and this name was used for further expansion of the group. The name of Joseph Alexander was eventually removed from the Dungannon and Cookstown stores, although the cafe in the Dungannon, Cookstown, Lisburn, Bangor and Newtownards stores is called 'Joseph's' in his memory. The group's head office, situated at Moygashel, near Dungannon is named 'Alexander House'.

Set up as a drapery, the store traditionally sold clothes and bedding. Menarys stores now offer household goods, cookware, lingerie, accessories, luggage and cosmetics in addition to these products, while Tempest is made up of high-street brands aimed at younger women's fashion.

The firm employs over 2000 people and is still run by Joseph Alexander's family.

Menarys have branches in the following locations in

Northern Ireland: Bangor; Coleraine; Cookstown; Dungannon; Larne; Limavady; Lisburn; Newry (2 stores); Newtownards; Omagh; Portadown; Craigavon; Strabane; Junction One, Co. Antrim;

Republic of Ireland: Letterkenny; Carrick-on-Shannon; Santry; Tullamore; Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

External links

• Menarys
• Tempest