Coop Norden

Coop Norden AB
Subsidiary
Industry Retail
Fate Dissolved
Predecessor Nordisk Andels Forbund (NAF)
Founded 1918 (NAF)
2001 (Coop Norden)
Defunct 2008
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
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
Brugsen (KNI)
Website coopnorden.com
Footnotes / references

Coop Norden was a pan-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 yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion. 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:

Sweden
  • Coop Forum
  • Coop Bygg
  • Coop Konsum
  • Coop Extra
  • Coop Nära
Denmark
Norway
  • Coop Byggmix - hardware store
  • Coop Elektro - electrical article store
  • Coop Extra - convenience store
  • Coop Kjøkken og Hjem - kitchen and interior store
  • Coop Marked - grocery store
  • Coop Mega - supermarket
  • Coop Obs! - hypermarket
  • Coop Obs! Bygg - hardware
  • Coop Prix - discount store
  • Coop Sport - sport store
Greenland

Notes

  1. ↑ FDB. "FDB's historie og udvikling" ["FDB's History & Development"]. Accessed 1 May 2012.


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