Click Shoes, Finland's largest shoe store chain, expands its store network again in two cities in Finland – The chain that is part of the Tokmanni Group will celebrate the store openings this spring
Tokmanni Group Corporation Press release 20 March 2024 at 9:15 a.m.
This spring, the Click Shoes shoe chain will also serve customers in the Veturi shopping centre in Kouvola and the Karisma shopping centre in Lahti and, as announced in January, in the Koskikeskus shopping centre in the heart of Tampere. The picture above is from the Click Shoes store in the Jumbo-Flamingo entertainment and shopping centre in Vantaa.
The Click Shoes shoe store chain, which became part of the Tokmanni Group last year, will celebrate store openings not only in the Koskikeskus shopping centre in the heart of Tampere, as previously announced, but also in the Veturi shopping centre in Kouvola and the Karisma shopping centre in Lahti. The stores will open their doors for the first time in April. These openings will increase the number of Click Shoes stores to 31 across Finland.
Leases have been signed for store premises in Kouvola measuring about 230 square metres and store premises in Lahti measuring about 400 square metres. In addition, as previously announced, the Tampere store will have about 350 square metres of space.
The store will be the first Click Shoes store in Kouvola. In Lahti, the chain opened its first store last autumn in the Trio shopping centre in the city centre. In Tampere, Click Shoes already has two stores, one in Lielahti and one in the city centre on Hämeenkatu.
“It’s great to be able to improve our footwear offering in several locations. Our new stores sites are located in popular shopping centres, and our premises enable us to offer our customers a diverse assortment of footwear,” says Hanna Ahola, Managing Director of the Click Shoes chain.
Click Shoes’ new store locations are already very familiar to the Tokmanni Group. The company has served its customers in the Karisma shopping centre for many years under the Robinhood name, from 2011 to 2015, and under the Tokmanni name since 2015. Tokmanni also had a store in the Veturi shopping centre between 2016 and 2022. In 2023, Tokmanni opened a new store in Katajaharju in Kouvola, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Veturi shopping centre and significantly more spacious store than the previous store that was closed. In addition, a Vapaa Valinta store, which was merged into the Tokmanni Group in 2004, served customers in the Koskikeskus shopping centre in Tampere from 1988 to 2012, and in 2012 a Tokmanni store was opened to replace the Vapaa Valinta store.
Click Shoes offers a range of footwear from internationally known brands such as: Skechers, Rieker, Musse&Cloud, Bugatti, Tamaris and Pegada. The shoe chain also has its own 2Moons brand. The picture above is from the Click Shoes store in the Jumbo-Flamingo entertainment and shopping centre in Vantaa.
Diverse assortments and significant footwear expertise
The Click Shoes shoe chain sells footwear from many international brands, including Skechers, Rieker, Musse&Cloud, Bugatti, Tamaris and Pegada. The stores also have a wide range of products from 2Moons, the private label created by Click Shoes, as well as shoe care and maintenance products from Springyard.
According to Ahola, Click Shoes offers customers professional service and practical footwear with good value for money.
“Click Shoes is Finland’s largest shoe store chain and it will soon be 25 years old. Therefore, we know exactly what kind of footwear our customers appreciate and what they need here in our Northern climate with its four distinct seasons,” she adds.
Comprehensive store network
With the new stores now announced, Click Shoes and the Shoe House store chain, which was also acquired by the Tokmanni Group last year, will have a total of 33 stores across Finland. Two of these are Shoe House stores.
Last year, Click Shoes opened three new stores. Store openings were celebrated in Kotka in May, Hyvinkää in September and Lahti in October. In January of this year, Click Shoes closed its outlet store in the Elo shopping centre in Ylöjärvi due to the expiry of its lease.
Click Shoes also has an online store. Many products familiar from the Click Shoes and Shoe House stores are also available in the Tokmanni online store and in the around 120 Tokmanni stores across Finland.
In Finland, the Tokmanni Group includes the shoe chains Click Shoes and Shoe House, the variety discount retail chain Tokmanni, and the lifestyle brand Miny. The Tokmanni Group also owns the Swedish Dollarstore discount retail chain, which serves its customers under the Dollarstore brand in Sweden and the Bigdollar brand in Denmark.
Familiarise yourself with the most significant changes of the Tokmanni Group’s store network between 2016 and 2024, as well as changes that will be implemented in the near future and that have already been announced at ir.tokmanni.fi/en/investors/tokmanni-as-an-investment/new_stores.
TOKMANNI GROUP CORPORATION
For further infomation, please contact:
Hanna Ahola
Managing Director
Click Shoes
Tel. +358 40 700 0244
hanna.ahola(at)clickshoes.fi
Maarit Mikkonen
Head of IR and Communications
Tokmanni
Tel. +358 40 562 2282
maarit.mikkonen(at)tokmanni.fi
Click Shoes is a Finnish shoe store chain founded in 2001. Click Shoes was acquired by Tokmanni in 2023.
Tokmanni Group Corporation is one of the leading variety discount retailers in the Nordics. Around 6,600 employees in Finland, Sweden and Denmark make customers’ everyday life and special occasions easier by offering a versatile and up-to-date assortment of nordic and international brand-name products and other high-quality products at prices that are always affordable. With more than 370 Tokmanni, Dollarstore, Bigdollar, Miny, Click Shoes and Shoe House stores and online stores, the Group is always close to its customers. In 2022, Tokmanni Group Corporation's revenue was EUR 1,168 million and comparable EBIT amounted to EUR 86 million. The Group's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
