Tokmanni is having a double celebration party – Store openings will be celebrated both in Sipoo in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland
Tokmanni Press release 3 December 2024 at 12:30 pm
“Paljon joulua, vähän hintaa” can be freely translated as “Lots of Christmas joy, low prices”. After the store openings this Christmas season, Tokmanni’s store network is wider than ever, which offers customers many options to do their Christmas shopping practically all over Finland. The photo above is from the new Tokmanni store in Nikkilä in Sipoo.
Tokmanni, a variety discount retail chain, is opening new stores in Nikkilä in Sipoo in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland on Wednesday 4 December at 8:00 am. The Tokmanni stores, which will be opened in modern, completely new commercial buildings, are spacious and comfortable, and offer a delightfully versatile range of products. In Sodankylä, the new Tokmanni store is more than 3.5 times bigger than its predecessor, which is also reflected in the considerable expansion of the product range. In true Tokmanni style, the store openings will feature plenty of special offers as well as free buckets filled with product gifts.
In Sipoo, the new Tokmanni store opens its doors in a very central business location in the immediate vicinity of the commercial services of the centre of Nikkilä at Jokilaaksontie 1, 04130 Nikkilä. Near the store are also located, for example, an assisted living facility and a daycare centre.
In Sodankylä, which is in Finnish Lapland more than 900 kilometres from Sipoo and the Helsinki metropolitan area, the new Tokmanni is conveniently located in the immediate vicinity of the intersection of the E75 road and Kittiläntie, opposite to the Sodankylä Health Centre, at Karistamontie 1, 99600 Sodankylä. The new store replaces its predecessor, which lacked space and product range to meet the needs of both customers and Tokmanni and was closed at the end of November this year.
The new Tokmanni store offer a comprehensive selection of products focusing on, for example, interior decoration, clothing, detergents and cleaning products, home improvement, various seasons and beauty, health and wellbeing. The Sodankylä store also feature, for example, a shop-in-shop department with footwear from Click Shoes, a shoe chain that joined Tokmanni Group last year. The Nikkilä store also sells selected footwear familiar from Click Shoes.
Like the Tokmanni store that was opened in Söderkulla in Sipoo last spring, the Nikkilä store also include a shop-in-shop department for Miny lifestyle brand. Miny, which is part of Tokmanni Group, offers a diverse range of beauty, wellbeing and interior decoration products and other surprising and interesting things to buy. Similar shop-in-shop departments can already be found in almost 50 Tokmanni stores across Finland.
The new stores have been designed in line with Tokmanni’s newest store concept, which emphasises convenient and pleasant shopping. The stores have plenty of space, around 2,800 square metres in Nikkilä, and around 3,150 square metres in Sodankylä. In Sodankylä, the change to the previous store is significant, as the predecessor had only around 850 square metres of space. In addition, both Tokmanni stores feature a garden department. In Nikkilä, the total size of the garden department and its fenced area is more than 350 square metres. In Sodankylä, the garden department has almost 600 square metres of space.
The new stores in Sipoo, a municipality of more than 22,000 inhabitants, and in Sodankylä, a municipality of more than 8,000 inhabitants, are excellent complements to Tokmanni’s nationwide store network.
“We are very pleased to be able to celebrate our new stores at the same time in Nikkilä in Sipoo and Sodankylä, where a new Tokmanni store has been hoped for a long time. Of course, it’s always great to be able to meet our customer’s wishes,” says Timo Heimo, Vice President, Sales and Supply Chain at Tokmanni.
“We are expanding our Tokmanni offering to Nikkilä in accordance with our customers' expectations. In Sodankylä, on the other hand, our new Tokmanni store is more than 3.5 times bigger than its predecessor. Thanks to its size, we can now offer a lot of products that our customers have hoped for, but we have not been able sell in the small store premises of our previous store,” he adds.
In Nikkilä in Sipoo, customer service is provided by a team of around 15 retail professionals led by Store Manager Johanna Peltomäki. The Nikkilä store will be open from 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays, from 8 am to 7 pm on Saturdays and from 10 am to 6 pm on Sundays.
In the second northernmost store of the Tokmanni variety discount retail chain in Sodankylä, customers are served by Store Manager Mika Uusitalo and his team of approximately 15 retail professionals. The Sodankylä store will be open from 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays, from 8 am to 6 pm on Saturdays and from 10 am to 6 pm on Sundays.
Tokmanni is ready for Christmas shopping this year as well. The photo above is from the new Tokmanni store in Nikkilä in Sipoo.
Convenient services and smart energy choices
In addition to offering a comprehensive and affordable product assortment and a pleasant shopping experience, Tokmanni focuses on services that make customers’ daily lives easier and on smart energy choices.
At Tokmanni stores, customers can make purchases through the Tokmanni Tukku B2B sales function and the Tokmanni Klubi customer loyalty program. Customers can also pick up orders made through the Tokmanni online store and conveniently withdraw cash when paying at the checkout.
The variety discount retailer purchases fossil-free electricity for its Tokmanni stores and uses energy-efficient LED lightning.
The parking areas of numerous Tokmanni stores are equipped with charging facilities for electric and plug-in hybrid cars. In Nikkilä in Sipoo and Sodankylä, cars can be charged using a Plugit Lataus charging point.
The Nikkilä store also has a solar power plant with 308 solar panels and a peak power of 135 kWp. The solar energy produced with the help of solar panels installed on the roof of the store building can cover an average of around 15 to 20 percent of the annual electricity need of the store. In total, there are already almost 70 solar power plants in Tokmanni’s own use around Finland.
The new Nikkilä store include a shop-in-shop department for Tokmanni Group's Miny lifestyle brand. Similar shop-in-shop departments can already be found in almost 50 Tokmanni stores across Finland.
Opening offers and surprise buckets with product gifts in true Tokmanni style
Tokmanni always celebrates the openings of its new stores with generous opening offers. In Sipoo, the opening offers will be valid not only at the Nikkilä store but also at the Söderkulla store, which was opened last spring, from Wednesday 4 December to Sunday 8 December 2024. Also in Sodankylä, the opening offers will be valid until the end of the opening week. In addition, 500 of the Tokmanni’s famous surprise buckets filled with product gifts will be handed out for free to the first customers in Nikkilä and Sodankylä on the day of the opening on Wednesday 4 November. In both stores, two of the surprise buckets will also contain a EUR 50 gift card.
The opening of the Nikkilä store on Wednesday morning 4 December will be attended by Veli-Pekka Ääri, Vice President, Marketing, Communications and eCommerce, and Arto Nykänen, Regional Manager, in addition to the store personnel. At the store opening ceremonies in Sodankylä on Wednesday morning 4 December, Tokmanni will be represented by Mika Rautiainen, President and CEO at Tokmanni Group; Timo Heimo, Vice President, Sales and Supply Chain; and Toni Kauttio, Regional Manager, in addition to the Sodankylä store personnel. At the event in Sodankylä, Mayor Jari Rantapelkonen will bring greetings from the municipality.
Tokmanni knows how to celebrate its store openings
The Tokmanni variety discount retailer chain, which has a total of 204 Tokmanni stores after the opening of the new Nikkilä store, is a very experienced organiser of store openings. For example, the openings of completely new Tokmanni stores has already been celebrated four times this year: in Söderkulla in Sipoo and Pälkäne in April, and in Eurajoki and the Entresse shopping centre in Espoo in November. In addition, Tokmanni has, among other things, expanded and refurbished several of its stores in different parts of Finland.
In the future, Tokmanni will open a new store in, for example, Naantali. The store opening ceremonies of the Naantali store are expected to be held at the beginning of 2026 at the latest.
The store networks of other store chains owned by Tokmanni Group are also being renewed. More information on the subject can be found on the Group’s website.
Did you know this about working at Tokmanni store chain?
- Tokmanni Group Corporation is one of the leading variety discount retailers in the Nordics. For example, at the administration and logistics hub in Mäntsälä in Finland, employees work in logistics, procurement, finance and IT, among other functions. In Finland, the Tokmanni Group includes the variety discount retailer Tokmanni, the shoe store chains Click Shoes and Shoe House, and the lifestyle brand Miny. Outside Finland, the Group owns the Swedish discount retailer Dollarstore, which currently has more than 130 Dollarstore stores in Sweden and five Big Dollar stores in Denmark. Dollarstore is headquartered in Kista in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a warehouse in Örebro, Sweden.
- Work in the retail sector is fast-paced and interesting, and Tokmanni store chain’s employees find that variety is one of the most attractive aspects of working in a store. Tokmanni Group encourages and helps its employees to develop their skills and advance in their careers to various tasks and increasingly challenging roles within the company. Many employees have advanced several levels in their careers.
- The workplace community at the Tokmanni store chain is delightfully diverse. For example, more than 20 different native languages are spoken at Tokmanni stores in Finland. The average age of Tokmanni store chain employees is around 38 years, and a permanent employee stays with the company for an average of around eight years.
- When they start their job, every new Tokmanni store chain employee gets, among other things, their own orientation mentor who provides them with support during the early stages of their career. The mentor welcomes the new colleague and ensures, for example, that the employee has received adequate orientation and feels part of the work community. The new employee can ask their mentor whatever they want to know, with a low threshold. In addition, Tokmanni store chain provides all new store employees with joint training to ensure comprehensive and consistent induction.
- Tokmanni store chain also provides its employees with good personnel benefits, such as discounts on products and a wide range of benefits and offers from the partners in its personnel benefits programme.
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.
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For further information, please contact:
Timo Heimo
Vice President, Sales and Supply Chain
Tokmanni
Tel. +358 20 728 6051
timo.heimo(at)tokmanni.fi
Harri Koponen
Vice President, Store Network and Concept
Tokmanni
Tel. +358 20 728 6030
harri.koponen(at)tokmanni.fi
Maarit Mikkonen
Head of IR and Communications
Tokmanni
Tel. +358 40 562 2282
maarit.mikkonen(at)tokmanni.fi
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Tokmanni Group Corporation is one of the leading variety discount retailers in the Nordics. More than 6,000 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, Big Dollar, Miny, Click Shoes and Shoe House stores and online stores, the Group is always close to its customers. In 2023, the Group's revenue was EUR 1,393 million and comparable EBIT amounted to EUR 99 million. The Tokmanni Group Corporation's shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
