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K Group's Market Share Highest In 15 Years

Finland's K Group's 2016 market share stood at 37.7%, according to research conducted by Nielsen. The figure is the highest for the group in fiftee...

Finnish Grocery Sees Sales Decline 1% In February

Grocery retailers in Finland posted sales of €1.23 billion in February 2017, which is one per cent down on the same month the previous year, the Finni...

Finland's S Group Sees Market Share Rise In Latest Nielsen Figures

Finnish retailer S Group has seen its market share rise to 47.2%, according to the latest figures from Nielsen, which is a 1.3 percentage point increase on...

Finnish Retailer Kesko And Oriola-KD To Launch Well-Being Chain

Finnish retailer Kesko and pharmaceutical company Oriola-KD have announced the launch of a joint-venture chain of health, beauty and well-being stores acro...

Kesko Shoppers' Salvaged Plastic Packaging Turned Into Shopping Bags

Finnish retailer Kesko has announced the in-store introduction of bags made from recycled plastic packaging materials provided by customers. Pirkka...

Finnish Grocery Trade Up 1.4% In January 2017

The value of the Finnish grocery industry was €1.275 billion in January 2017, which is 1.4% higher than the total recorded a year earlier, according t...

Benecol Owner Raisio Group Posts Sales Decline In FY 2016

Raisio Group, which owns the Benecol brand among others, has posted net sales for 2016 of €436.3 million, compared to €521.2 million a year earli...

Finland's S Group Sees Retail Sales Rise 2% In Full Year 2016

Finland's S Group, which operates more than 1,600 retail outlets in Finland, as well as a number of regional cooperatives, saw retail sales rise 2.0% last...