K-Citymarket is a Finnish

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chain owned by

Kesko Kesko Corporation (, ) is a Finnish retailing conglomerate with its head office in Kalasatama, Helsinki. It is engaged in the grocery trade, building and technical trade, and car trade. It also has operations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Es ...

. The chain has about 80 stores in Finland. The first K-Citymarket store was opened in

Lahti Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...

year 1971. The size of the stores are between 7,000 m² (75,347 sq ft) to 10,000 m² (107,639 sq ft). In all K-Citymarkets, a K-retailer is responsible for the sale of groceries, and Kesko for the consumer goods side. K-Citymarket's selections include foodstuffs as well as clothing, leisure, sports and home products. Citymarketin logo

History

The first Citymarket store was opened in the neighbourhood of Paavola in the city of Lahti year 1971. The name Citymarket came from the City-Otra department store in Tampere, which Kesko partly owned. Kesko opened seven Citymarket stores in the 1970s and in the 2020s there were over 80 stores in big and medium sized stores across Finland. The first Citymarket in the Baltic countries was opened year 2001 in

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. At the end of the year 2002, there were four Citymarkets in

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and two Citymarkets in

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. Year 2004 Kesko and ICA formed the Rimi Baltic company and all the K-Citymarkets (together with ICA-stores) were changed to Rimi Baltic stores. Kesko sold its part of the Rimi Baltic company to ICA year 2006.

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