The Myyrmanni bombing took place on October 11, 2002, in Myyrmäki, Vantaa, Finland, in Greater Helsinki, at the Myyrmanni shopping mall. A bomb, hidden in a backpack, exploded in the central square of the shopping center on top of a metal waste container, located in the center of the square, at 19:36. Five people were killed immediately, including the bomb carrier. The waste container was shattered, and fragments of the structure increased the amount of shrapnel and the devastation. The explosion ruined 400 m² of the shopping center, carved a 10-cm deep crater in the floor where the waste container had stood and blew the glass dome over the square up and outwards from the mall. In total seven died, including two teenagers and a 7-year-old. 159 were injured, including 10 children. 66 victims required hospitalization with the remainder treated and released at the scene. The bombing took place during the pre-weekend shopping surge late on a Friday afternoon, with 1,000–2,000 people in the shopping center, including many children who had come to see a clown performance.
Stockmann plc is a Finnish retailer established in 1862.
Oulu Airport is located in Oulu, Finland, 5.7 NM south-west of the city centre. The airport is the second busiest in Finland after Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, as measured by the number of passengers. There are around 20 daily flights to Helsinki. Oulu Airport is also extensively used by the Finnish Air Force for training purposes and the managing body of the airport is Finavia. Oulu Airport has offered free wireless network access for passengers since May 2007.
The S Group is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 20 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland in addition to SOK, Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta. S Group operates in the markets for groceries, consumer durables, service station, hotel and restaurant services. It is engaged in close competition with Kesko, with which it shares an oligopolistic position in many of the markets it operates in.
Sokos is a chain of department stores in Finland that is part of the S Group, which also operates the hotel chain, Sokos Hotels.
Heikintori is a shopping centre in Tapiola, Espoo, Finland.
The Kluuvi shopping centre is a shopping centre on Aleksanterinkatu in the Kluuvi district in central Helsinki, Finland. The shopping centre has about 35 businesses. Kluuvi offers 10 new international brand stores first and only in Finland as well as a mix of some interesting Finnish retail concepts and restaurants. In the basement, there is an eco-market hall concept representing local Finnish delicacies from more than 500 Finnish small producers. Also a bread-oven and fish smokery are located in the shop. The shopping centre was opened on 15 March 1989, and was designed by the architect bureau Castren-Jauhiainen-Nuuttila. It was refurbished and reopened with a completely renewed commercial concept 14 October 2011.
Sokos Hotels is a Finnish hotel chain. It is the largest hotel chain in Finland, with a total of 49 hotels in 30 different cities and municipalities. Forty-five hotels are located in Finland, one in Tallinn, Estonia, and three in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Break Sokos Hotel Eden is a spa hotel located in the Hietasaari district, 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) west of Oulu centre in the Nallikari camping area. This Finland subtropical sea spa was constructed in 1989 by the designer Paavo Karjalainen.
Nallikari is a seaside resort located on an island in the Hietasaari district in Oulu, Finland. The resort can be reached year-round with the local bus routes 15 and 15N and during summertime with a trackless train called Potnapekka. The beach of Nallikari stretches for about half a kilometre.
Jukka Torsten Lindholm, also known as Michael Maria Pentholm and currently Michael Penttilä, is a Finnish serial killer. According to Alibi, he is the only Finn that fits FBI's description of a serial killer.
The Mall of Tripla is a shopping mall in Keski-Pasila, Helsinki, Finland. The mall, along with a rebuilt railway station, opened on 17 October 2019. With a total leasable retail area of 85,394 square metres (919,170 sq ft), the mall is the fourth-largest shopping mall in Finland and in terms of total leasable units, the largest shopping mall in Northern Europe.
Redi is a shopping centre in Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland. With its gross leasable area of 64,000 square metres (690,000 sq ft), it is the eighth largest shopping centre in Finland.
Kauppakeskus Viiri is a shopping mall in the southeast part of Klaukkala, Finland. It is the largest shopping centre in the Nurmijärvi municipality.
The Diablos Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club that was founded in Pattaya, Thailand, in 1999. The Diablos are a support club for the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
Tampere Market Hall is one of the significant market places in Tampere, Finland. It is located in the center of city, between Hämeenkatu and Hallituskatu, and it was opened in 1901. It was decided to build the market in Tampere as a result of a large and unregulated market. It is the largest market hall in the Nordic countries.
Like is a shopping center located in Lielahti, Tampere, Finland. The shopping center has an internal connection to the adjacent Prisma hypermarket. A special feature of the center is mentioned that the city services and commercial services operate in the same building. The first two floors have specialty shops for fashion and leisure, as well as cafés and restaurants. The top floor of the shopping center houses the public services of the city of Tampere: a library, a health center, a dental clinic, a maternity and children's clinic, as well as a service center for the elderly and a day center. There is a total of about 13,200 square meters of business and service space. About 90% of the space has been leased in the opening phase.
Hertsi is a shopping center located in Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Finland, the construction of which was completed in the spring of 2020. It is located along Itäväylä, quite close to Herttoniemi metro station. In addition to grocery stores and restaurants, the shopping center includes a library, youth facilities and a kindergarten to be opened later. The previously built shopping center Megahertsi is part of the center. In 2021, three apartment buildings with a total of 250 apartments will be completed on the shopping center site.
Ratina is a shopping center in Finland, opened in the heart of Tampere on 19 April 2018, construction of which began in April 2015. Ratina is Tampere's largest shopping center with 53,000 square meters of retail space, offering groceries, fashion, interior design, wellness and leisure services, as well as cafés and restaurants. Under it, a parking space for more than 1,200 cars has been built, which is the largest parking garage in the center of Tampere. The Ratina shopping center is built between Ratina Stadium and the Tampere Bus Station, and there is also an underground connection to the bus station below the Vuolteenkatu street. The new building in the shopping center is largely located on the former pier area of the bus station. The shopping center is also accessible directly from the bus station via escalators. The developer is Sponda, which was selected as the contractor by the City Board in April 2006. The consortium of Citycon Oyj and Skanska, YIT and NCC also submitted their bids.
Koskikeskus is a shopping center in Kyttälä, Tampere, Finland, next to Sokos Hotel Ilves. It was opened in March 1988, when it was the largest shopping center in Finland at the time. The shopping center and the adjacent Hotel Ilves were built on the site of the old Verkatehdas.
