Smart Club

Smart Club AS
Subsidiary
Industry Retail
Founded 20 February 1995[1]
Founder Atle Brynestad
Headquarters Oslo, Norway
Number of locations
3
Area served
Norway
Key people
Svein Guldbrandsen (CEO)
Revenue NOK 1,500 million (2006)
NOK 55 million (2006)
Parent Coop Norge SA
Website www.smartclub.no

Smart Club AS is a Norwegian retail chain with three outlets, offering the products from forty product categories. The stores have a membership programme which customers may pay NOK 100 to gain bonuses throughout the year.[2]

History

The company was founded in 1995 by Atle Brynestad through his investment company CG Holding and had eight outlets at a time. In July 2008, the chain was bought by Coop NKL who converted three stores to their own hypermarket chain, Coop Obs!, two to Coop Mega and one to Coop Xtra. They let two outlets, all in the Greater Oslo Region, stay under the Smart Club name. One outlet is at Alnabru and the second is at Slependen. In 2010, a new Smart Club was opened in Råde.

The store in Alnabru was later converted to a Coop Obs! Bygg format. The Slependen Store was reduced significantly in floor space and remaining space converted to the Coop Extra discount format, but has struggled. http://www.budstikka.no/%C3%B8konomi-bolig/coop-extra-sliter-med-salget-pa-slependen-1.8362107 (link in Norwegian)

References

  1. Brønnøysund Register Centre. "Smart Club AS" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-07-05.
  2. Smart Club. "Om Smart Club" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
Smart Club at Slependen in Asker