Our Story

Since opening our first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, we’ve built a network of over 800 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value every day.
 
We have around 16,000 colleagues who serve around 20m customers per year.
 
We’re still the home of the pound, offering thousands of quality products in store with over 1,000 well-known brands in key shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys.
 
Within the UK we’ve also rolled out clothing to hundreds of our larger stores, offering women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and bringing new style to our stores with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.
 
We also offer chilled and frozen food in over 500 locations.
 
In March 2022 we acquired Poundshop.com, making our offer available online.  
 
In September 2023 customers nationwide were able to shop at Poundland.co.uk at a click of a mouse.
 
Poundland is part of Pepco Group which has almost 5,000 stores in 20 territories including the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Spain and across the CEE region.