Coop Norden

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Coop Norden AB
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Retail
PredecessorNordisk Andels Forbund (NAF)
Founded1918 (NAF)
2001 (Coop Norden)
Defunct2008
FateDissolved
Headquarters,
Area served
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Greenland
Key people
Svein E. Skorstad (CEO)
Revenue SEK 89.5 billion (2005)
Number of employees
25,000
Parent KF
Coop NKL
FDB
Subsidiaries Coop Sverige
Coop Norge
Coop Danmark
Brugseni (KNB)
Website coopnorden.com
Footnotes /references
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Coop Norden was a Scandinavian retail chain. It was based in Sweden and owned by three major cooperative retail companies: Sweden's KF (42%), Denmark's FDB (38%), and Norway's Coop NKL (20%). During its years of operation, Coop Norden ran around 1,000 stores and had a yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion.[ citation needed ] In 2007, the parent companies decided to dissolve the arrangement and, in January 2008, operation and ownership of the retail chains were returned to the national cooperatives. [1]

Former chains

Notes

  1. FDB. "FDB's historie og udvikling Archived 2011-12-31 at the Wayback Machine " ["FDB's History & Development"]. Accessed 1 May 2012.

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