Clas Ohlson has entered into an Agreement for Lease pertaining to a new store in Merry Hill Shoppingcentre, Brierley Hill/Birmingham, UK. The retail space will amount to a total of 1 200 square metres. The store’s shopper population are more than 270 000 and the store is scheduled to open in November/December 2010.
Future store establishments that have been contracted to date are: Bryn Senter, Oslo, Norway, in August 2010; Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2010; Liljeholmen, Stockholm, Sweden and Lambertseter, Oslo, Norway, in October 2010; Drottninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden and Kiruna, Sweden in October/November 2010; Jönköping, Sweden and Lillehammer, Norway, in November 2010; Brierley Hill/Birmingham, UK in November/December 2010; Gränby, Uppsala, Sweden, in autumn 2011; Erikslund, Västerås, Sweden in September 2011; Bodø and Elverum, Norway, in November 2011; Norrtälje, Sweden, in spring 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 121 stores and 15 contracted stores, Clas Ohlson will have a total of 136 stores, of which 65 in Sweden, 47 in Norway, 16 in Finland and eight in the UK.
For further information, please contact:
Bo Heyman, Director of Establishment, Mobile +46 (0)70-597 44 90
John Womack, Director of Information and Investor Relations; Mobile +46 (0)70 678 24 99