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Year 2009 Kesko in brief
Kesko is the leading provider of trading sector services and a highly valued listed company. Through its stores, Kesko offers quality to the daily lives of consumers. Kesko has about 2,000 stores engaged in chain operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus.
Our core competence areas
Kesko Food is a strong operator in the Finnish grocery trade. K-retailers, whose operations are based on the K-retailer business model, are responsible for customer satisfaction at the more than 1,000 K-food stores.
Kesko Food manages K-citymarket’s food trade and the K-supermarket, K-market and K-extra chains. Kesko Food’s main functions include the centralised purchasing of products, selection management, logistics, and the development of chain concepts and the store site network. Chain operations ensure the efficiency and competitiveness of business.
Kesko Food’s subsidiary Kespro Ltd is the leading wholesaler in the Finnish HoReCa business. It offers the best sourcing solutions in the sector for its customers.
Kesko’s home and speciality goods trade operates in the clothing, home, leisure, home technology, entertainment and furniture product lines. The home and speciality goods trade comprises Anttila Oy, K-citymarket Oy, Intersport Finland Ltd, Indoor Group Ltd, Musta Pörssi Ltd and Kenkäkesko Ltd. The total number of home and specility goods stores is 450.
Rautakesko operates in the building and home improvement supplies trade in Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus and the agricultural supplies trade in Finland. Rautakesko manages and develops its K-rauta, Rautia, K-maatalous, Byggmakker, Senukai and OMA retail chains and B2B sales in its operating area. Rautakesko is responsible for the chains’ concepts, marketing, sourcing and logistics services, store network, and retailer resources. There are 330 building and home improvement stores in eight countries and 90 agricultural stores in Finland.
VV-Auto and Konekesko make up the car and machinery trade division.
VV-Auto imports and markets Volkswagen, Audi and Seat passenger cars, and Volkswagen commercial vehicles in Finland, and it also imports and markets Seat passenger cars in Estonia and Latvia. VV-Auto is also engaged in car retailing and provides after-sales services at its own outlets in the Greater Helsinki area and Turku.
Konekesko is a service company specialising in the import and sales of construction, environmental and agricultural machinery, trucks and buses, and recreational machinery. Konekesko operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Konekesko arranges the manufacture of and sells Yamarin boats in Finland and exports them to several European countries and Russia.
