Clas Ohlson has signed a contract regarding a new store in the Willa Shopping Centre in Hyvinkää. The retail space will amount to a total of 1,423 square metres. The store’s catchment area comprises approximately 120,000 residents and the store is scheduled to open in October 2012.
Future store establishments that have been contracted to date are: Jönköping, Sweden in December 2010; Chapelfield Shopping Centre, Norwich, UK, St. Davids Shopping Centre, Cardiff, UK and Frenchgate Shopping Centre, Doncaster, UK in December 2010; Trondheim Torg, Trondheim and Sjøkanten Senter, Harstad, Norway in February 2011; Kristansund, Norway in March 2011; Sjøsiden Kjøpesenter, Horten, Norway in March/April 2011; Akseli Shopping Centre, Mikkeli, Finland in June 2011; Gränby, Uppsala, Sweden, in autumn 2011; Erikslund, Västerås, Sweden in September 2011; Alta, Norway in October/November 2011; Bodø and Elverum, Norway in November 2011; Karisma, Lahti, Finland in November/December 2011; Norrtälje, Sweden, in spring 2012; Willa Shopping Centre, Hyvinkää, Finland in October 2012 and Emporia, Malmö, Sweden, during the 2011/2012 financial year.
Clas Ohlson plans to 17-22 new stores during the 2010/2011 financial year, of which 6-10 in the UK. With currently 132 stores and 18 contracted stores, Clas Ohlson will have a total of 150 stores, of which 65 in Sweden, 54 in Norway, 20 in Finland and 11 in the UK.
For further information, please contact:
Bo Heyman, Director of Establishment, Mobile +46 (0)70-597 44 90.
Tapio Kuittinen, Managing Director of Clas Ohlson OY, Finland; Tel +358 201 11 22 30, Mobil +358 407 57 60 09.
John Womack, Director of Information and Investor Relations, +46 (0)247-444 05.