Coop Norden was a

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retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and th ...

chain. It was based in Sweden and owned by three major

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

retail companies: Sweden's KF (42%),

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's FDB (38%), and

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Coop NKL Coop Norge SA is a Norwegian cooperative. It is owned by 117 local cooperatives with approximately 2 million members. The company has its headquarters in Oslo. History The first cooperative store in Norway was opened in the 1850s and, on 27 J ...

(20%). During its years of operation, Coop Norden ran around 1,000 stores and had yearly

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

Former chains

;Sweden *

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- * Coop Bygg - hardware store * Coop Konsum - * Coop Extra - discount store * Coop Nära - ;Denmark * Brugsen - grocery store * SuperBrugsen - supermarket * Dagli'Brugsen - grocery store * LokalBrugsen - small grocery store * Irma - high-end grocery store * Kvickly - supermarket * Kvickly xtra - hypermarket * Fakta - discount store ;Greenland * Brugseni (KNB) ;Norway * Coop Byggmix - hardware store *

Coop Elektro Coop, COOP, Co-op, or ''variation'', most often refers to: * A chicken coop or other enclosure * Cooperative or co-operative ("co-op"), an association of persons who cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit ** Housing c ...

- electrical article store * Coop Extra - convenience store * Coop Kjøkken og Hjem - kitchen and interior store *

Coop Marked Coop Marked is a chain of 384 local grocery stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain represents the smallest stores in the Coop range, and is predominantly used in rural In general, a rur ...

- grocery store *

Coop Mega Coop Mega is a chain of supermarket stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain director is Stian Enbom Lysaker. The chain brand was established by the cooperative NKL in 1987 as a refurbishment of Do ...

- supermarket * Coop Obs! - hypermarket *

Coop Obs! Bygg Obs is a chain of 31 hypermarkets throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain director is Lars Midttun. History The first hypermarket opened in Trondheim in 1968 under the name DOMUS Stormarked. Prior t ...

- hardware * Coop Prix - discount store * Coop Sport - sport store

Notes

Defunct companies of Sweden Defunct companies of Denmark Defunct companies of Greenland Defunct companies of Norway Retail companies established in 1918 Retail companies disestablished in 2008 Cooperatives in Denmark Cooperatives in Sweden Cooperatives in Norway {{Sweden-company-stub