Kesko is the leading provider of trading sector services and is a listed company with 2010 net sales of close to €8,800 million. The company was registered on the stock exchange in 1960, and operates in the food, home, speciality goods, building and home improvement, and car and machinery trades. Kesko has around 2,000 stores engaged in chain operations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, providing jobs to around 22,000 employees. More than one million customers shop in Kesko’s ‘K-stores’ each day.
Kesko’s food division is a key player in Finland’s grocery market, overseeing
€3,900 million in net sales from K-citymarket, K-supermarket, K-market and K-extra branded chains. Laajasalo K-supermarket is just one grocery store operated by Kesko, and is located in Helsinki, Finland. At around 1500 square meters in size, Laajasalo K-supermarket employs 40 workers, and approximately 2000 customers visit the shop each day.