R-kioski

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R-kioski Oy
FormerlyRautatiekirjakauppa
Company type Private
Founded1910 (R-kioski Oy: 2011)
Headquarters
Espoo [1]
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Finland
Number of locations
  • 290 (Finland 2025)
Area served
  • Finland
Key people
  • Niklas Lilius (CEO)
Products
  • Retail
Revenue
  • €221 M (2024)
OwnerReitan Convenience
Parent Reitan Group
Website www.r-kioski.fi

R-kioski is a chain of convenience stores that is part of the Reitan Convenience division of the Reitan Group. There are around 290 R-kioski stores across Finland as of 2025. [2] R-kioski's focus is on selling take-away food and drinks but they also provide services such as the various "Veikkaus" lottery games (and in most stores, slot machines), prepaid SIM cards, postal and parcel services, as well as the sale of public transport tickets. Most stores are also able to sell national rail and bus transport tickets.

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R-kioski is known as "Ärrä" (the name of the letter R in Finnish) in common language. The company slogan is "Tekee hetkessä hyvää" (makes good in a moment).

History

Elielinaukion R-kioski 2025 Elielinaukion R-kioski 2025.jpg
Elielinaukion R-kioski 2025

The company dates back to 1910. The business was originally conceived by several major Finnish publishing houses as a newsagent for railway stations ("Rautakirja" was itself shortened from "Rautatiekirjakauppa" which translates to "railway bookshop"). It was later extended to other venues and products. The name R-kioski was adopted in 1958.

On 5 March 2012, it was announced that the Reitan Group bought R-kioski from Sanoma for roughly 130 million euros. The group had been working on the purchase for a decade, but previous negotiations had stranded as R-kioski had demanded a merger where they owned 51 percent. The purchase brought the Reitan Group to 2,500 kiosk outlets, making it the second-largest kiosk group in Europe. [3] [4] The company also previously operated in Romania between 2008 and 2011, but sold its operations to R-kioski Romania CEO Dan Vasile in April 2011. The name R-kioski was to be abandoned in Romania after a grace period following the corporate acquisition. [5]

In October 2021, R-kioski opened its first automated convenience store called R-kioski Go! in front of the Viikki Campus of the University of Helsinki. [6] In June 2023, R-Kioski moved its head office to the Alberga Business Park in the Leppävaara district of Espoo. [7] . As of September 2025 the CEO of the company has been Niklas Lilius. [8]

Former company slogans include "Kaiken lisäksi lähellä" (To top it off, it's near by), "Äkkiä R-kioskille" (Swiftly to R-kioski), "R-kioskilla kaikki käy" (We accept everything at R-kioski or Everyone visits R-kioski) and "R-Kioski — Sellaisena kuin sinä haluat" (R-Kioski — as you want it). The newest slogan "Tekee hetkessä hyvää" was adopted in 2024.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.kauppalehti.fi/yritykset/yritys/rkioski+oy/2404400-8
  2. ↑ R-kioski yritys 2017.
  3. ↑ Reuters 2011.
  4. ↑ Dagens Næringsliv 2012.
  5. ↑ Talouselämä 2011.
  6. ↑ "R-kioski avaa ensimmäisen miehittämättömän kioskin Helsingin Viikkiin / R-kioski".
  7. ↑ https://www.aamuposti.fi/paikalliset/6823046
  8. ↑ "Tukiorganisaatio / R-kioski". R-Kioski (in Finnish). Retrieved 2025-12-19.

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