Sandvika Storsenter is a

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located in

Sandvika Sandvika () is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway. It was declared a List of cities in Norway, city by the municipal council (Norway), municipal council in Bærum on 4 June 2003. Sandvika is situated approximately ...

outside of

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. It is owned by the Olav Thon Group () which in turn is owned by the Olav Thon Foundation (). The mall opened October 14, 1993, and was then 24,000

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. It was expanded in 1997, making it the largest shopping mall in Norway at the time. Today, after one main extension in 2007, the mall is 60,000

. For a good while it had 190 stores; today that number has increased to 197. Sandvika Storsenter is visited by an average of more than 25,000 customers every day, 150,000 per week and 8 million a year. The highest registered turnover and visitors for a single day, December 21, 2009, was

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33.95 million and 57,859 visitors. That same year, week 51 had a turnover of

190.9 million and 306,000 visitors. The mall's

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in 2013 was

3.18 billion. As of 2011, some of the largest and most prominent stores included Ultra, Hennes & Mauritz,

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, Elixia, Lefdal, XXL, , and .

References

External links

Official website
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