Kesko is a Finnish retailing conglomerate. It operates, among other things, in the Finnish markets for groceries, DIY and interior design products, agricultural supplies and machinery, consumer durables, and car sales. It also has subsidiaries in other countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Russia. In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ... A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of often seemingly unrelated businesses. ... Street markets such as this one in Rue Mouffetard, Paris are still common in France. ... Supermarket produce section A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. ... See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ... Interior design is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, through the manipulation of spatial volume as well as surface treatment. ... A car (Toyota Corolla S) is a durable good in economics. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... In business, a subsidiary is a company controlled by another, usually large—and often multinational—company or corporation. ...

Kesko's loyalty card is called Plussa. Its closest competitor is the S-Group, which operates in almost the same fields as Kesko. In marketing generally and in retailing more specifically, a loyalty card, rewards card, points card, or club card is a plastic card, visually similar to a credit card or debit card, that identifies the card holder as a member in a commercial incentives programme. ... S-Group is Finlands second largest supermarket chain, after the market leader K-Kauppa. ...

Ruokakesko (groceries)

Ruokakesko (literally 'food Kesko') is Kesko's affiliate business in the groceries market. This is the most important field of Kesko's operations, with Ruokakesko generating more than fifty per cent of Kesko's annual sales. It is currently the market leader in groceries, with a market share of about 35 per cent. Ruokakesko operates approximately 1100 grocery stores in five differentiated chains, often collectively referred to with the popular term K-kauppa. The "K-kaupat" signify their size and product diversity by using the letter K the same way as restaurants use stars for quality: Supermarket produce section A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. ... Sales, or the activity of selling, forms an integral part of commercial activity. ... A shop that sells food, either a Supermarket or a much smaller place. ...

• K-extra - a chain of small shops, mainly in the countryside, focussing on providing only the most commonly needed everyday goods along with good service. These often provide other services as well, such as betting and representing Posti, the Finnish post office. There are currently a bit under 300 K-extra stores in Finland.
• K-pikkolo - small shops operating in city centres and at Neste service stations, with a small selection of goods and extended opening hours. There about seventy K-pikkolo shops in Finland.
• KK-market - these are medium-sized grocery stores, located in city centres and major suburbs. This is the largest of Ruokakesko's chains, with over 370 outlets in the country.
• KKK-supermarket - a chain of larger supermarkets, with a good selection of items. There are 150 of these shops, located usually just outside city centres and in large suburbs.
• KKKK-citymarket - huge hypermarkets with a surface area of around 10 000 square metres. About 50 of these, in major cities.

Ruokakesko has also lately started operating the no-frills Cassa grocery stores to compete with Lidl, which has recently entered the Finnish market. Ruokakesko's private brands include Pirkka, Euro Shopper, Costa Rica (coffee), and Rico (fruit & vegetables). Posti, or, in full, Suomen Posti Oyj (Finnish for The Finnish Post), is the Finnish state-owned postal service. ... Neste is a Finnish chain of service stations. ... Service station is a term with different meanings in different parts of the world: In the United States and Canada, it refers to a filling station that also offers such services as oil change and mechanical repairs to automobiles. ... Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) Supermarket produce section A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ... In commerce, a hypermarket (from the French hypermarché) is a store which combines a supermarket and a department store. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... No-frills or no frills is the term used to describe any service or product for which the non-essential features (or frills) have been removed. ... A Lidl in Cornwall, UK Lidl (either leed-ul as pronounced in recently-launched British TV commercials, or lid-ul) is a European discount supermarket chain of German origin that operate 5,000 stores. ... Private branding is when a large distribution channel member (usually a retailer), buys from a manufacturer in bulk and puts its own name on the product. ... Coffee is a drink, usually hot, prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ... Vegetables in a market Vegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice. ...

Ruokakesko owns, together with the Swedish ICA Group, the Rimi Baltic group, which operates supermarkets and no-frills stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The company's market share in the three countries is approximately 15%, and it operates the Rimi chain for supermarkets, and the Säästumarket and SuperNetto chains for no-frills retail in Estonia and Latvia respectively. ICA (Inköps-Centralen Aktiebolag) is a Swedish corporate group in the retail business. ...

Rautakesko (hardware)

Rautakesko (or 'iron Kesko') works in the hardware industry, selling building and DIY supplies. It is the market leader in Finland, with a market share of about 35%, and operates nearly 150 shops in the K-rauta and Rautia chains. Rautakesko's activities constitute about 15% of Kesko's total sales. Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ... Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ... See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ...

Rautakesko also operates in Estonia (where it has four shops and is the market leader), Sweden, Latvia and Russia. It also owns the controlling interest in the Lithuanian market leader UAB Senuku Prekybos centras. Controlling interest is to have control of a large enough portion of voting stock in a company such that no other stock holder can oppose you. ...

Maatalouskesko (agriculture)

Maatalouskesko ('agriculture Kesko') sells supplies and machinery for agricultural producers in its hundred stores in Finland. It also has subsidiaries in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Maatalouskesko generates ten per cent of Kesko's total sales.

Keswell (consumer durables)

Keswell operates several different chains in different sections of the market for consumer durables. It constitutes ten per cent of Kesko's total sales. The most widely recognised chains operated by Keswell are: A car (Toyota Corolla S) is a durable good in economics. ...

• Anttila, which sells general consumer durables.
  • Kodin Ykkönen, a subsidiary of Anttila, specialises in interior design.
• Intersport, the Finnish market leader in sports equipment.
• Musta Pörssi, which sells electronics and household appliances.
• K-Kenkä and Andiamo are Keswell's shoe retailers.

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VV-Auto

VV-Auto is the business selling Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat cars in Finland. It has shops in Helsinki and Turku. Volkswagen, [literally: peoples car] (also known as VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... Audi is an automobile maker in Germany, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. ... An old SEAT 600 The two-door SEAT Ibiza. SEAT is one of the leading car makers in Spain. ... Central African Republic Children At Risk Cordillera Administrative Region Cost Accrual Ratio Computer-assisted reporting Cumulative average return This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ... Province Western Finland Region Finland Proper Sub-region Turku City manager Armas Lahoniitty Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 311th 245. ...

External link

• Kesko Oyj - The corporate website.
• Pirkka - Pirkka website.
• Plussa - Loyalty card Plussa's website