Kesko Oyj Annual Shareholders Meeting Transcript
Distinguished shareholders, 80 years ago, Kesko was founded in Katajanokka in Helsinki, when 4 retailer-owned regional wholesale businesses were merged. Already at its birth, Kesko was a major corporation in Finland. Kesko started its operations on January 1, 1941.
Kesko and the K Group can be considered a Finnish success story. During 80 years, Kesko has developed into a leading Nordic retailer, a retail group, which retail sales are already approximately EUR 14 billion. We operate in 8 European countries, and the K Group has 1,800 stores. We have about 1.9 million customer contacts per day.
One key element in Kesko and the K Group are the independent K retailers of whom there are 1,200. Whereas, all together, at Kesko and K Group, retailers and their personnel included, they are already 46,000 today.
Kesko is financially strong. As a company, we are practically debt-free, excluding lease liabilities.
As the Chairperson of the Board stated in his own speech, our growth
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