Tokmanni opens refurbished and expanded stores in Hollola and the Skanssi shopping centre in Turku – Wider selections and better shopping experiences

Tokmanni     Press release     11 October 2019 at 12:35 p.m.

Tokmanni will open refurbished and expanded stores in Hollola and the Skanssi shopping centre in Turku on Thursday, 17 October 2019. The Hollola store will open at 8 am and the Skanssi store at 9 am. These refurbished and expanded stores will offer significantly wider selections and improved shopping experiences. True to the Tokmanni style, the store openings will feature special offers and free buckets filled with product gifts.

In its renewed stores, Tokmanni will offer a wider assortment of home and decoration products, leisure products, and beauty, health and wellbeing products. The Tokmanni store in Hollola will also offer a wider range of clothing products, while the Skanssi store has expanded its assortment of tools, toys and footwear. In addition, both stores will offer a comprehensive assortment of non-perishable foods, home electronics, entertainment goods and seasonal products.

In line with other Tokmanni stores, the Hollola and Skanssi stores will serve as collection points for items purchased from the online store. As a new feature, the Hollola store will have a recycling point for small waste electrical and electronic equipment. Both stores will also serve as points of sale for Veikkaus games.

In line with the newest Tokmanni store concept, pleasant and modern shopping experiences will be supported by spacious aisles and clear and informative signage. In addition, the new shelf layout enables products and product categories to be displayed better than before. In the Skanssi shopping centre, the store has been made more accessible: shoppers can now also enter the store directly from the escalator from the first floor.

The energy efficiency of the Skanssi store has been improved by replacing traditional store lighting with LED technology. In Hollola, LED lighting was taken into use earlier.

In Hollola, Tokmanni’s solar power plant consists of 504 solar panels. Photo: Solarigo

The Hollola store uses solar energy for ventilation, cooling and lighting. A solar power plant consisting of 504 solar panels was recently installed on its roof and is expected to generate about 114 MWh of electricity per year. This corresponds to the annual electricity consumption of about 57 small apartments or about 568,000 kilometres driven with an electric car.* The electricity generated by the solar power plant is expected to cover about 10–15% of the store’s total annual electricity consumption.

The expansion will significantly increase the stores’ retail selling space, from about 3,100 to 4,400 square metres in Hollola and from 1,000 to 1,800 square metres in Skanssi. In addition, the separate garden department of the Hollola store will expand from about 150 to 700 square metres.

“The Tokmanni stores in Hollola and Skanssi are delightfully spacious, and they’ll have even more diverse selections than before. Most of the improvements are based on customers’ wishes, and we are certain that the shopping experience will now be better in all respects,” says Mathias Kivikoski, Sales and Marketing Director at Tokmanni.

The renewed stores will have plenty of special offers from Thursday, their opening day, to Sunday. And as usual at Tokmanni openings, free buckets filled with product gifts will be handed out. A total of 700 surprise buckets will be given to the first customers on the opening morning in Hollola and 500 in Skanssi in Turku.

At the Hollola store, Store Manager Veeruska Salmela will be in charge of some 20 employees. In Skanssi, customers will be served by a team of about ten employees, including Store Manager Monica Gustafsson.

The stores are open during the renovation period and will continue to have long opening hours. The Hollola store will be open from 8 am to 9 pm on weekdays, from 8 am to 7 pm on Saturdays, and from 11 am to 7 pm on Sundays. The Skanssi store in Turku will be open from 9 am to 9 pm on weekdays, from 9 am to 7 pm on Saturdays, and from 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays.

The Hollola store is located at Keskikankaantie 4, 15860 Hollola. The Skanssi store is located at Skanssinkatu 10, 20730 Turku.

Two more new Tokmanni stores to be opened this year 

Tokmanni’s target is to expand its store network to include more than 200 stores and to increase its new retail selling space by approximately 12,000 square metres in net terms every year, which means around five new or relocated stores. Currently, Tokmanni has 189 stores throughout Finland. 

This has been a very busy year for Tokmanni. Earlier in the year, Tokmanni opened eight Ale-Makasiini chain stores, two TEX chain stores and one Säästökuoppa store under the Tokmanni brand name, along with new stores in Loppi and in Tesoma, Tampere. In addition, Tokmanni relocated to new premises in Hanko and Juuka, and reopened a refurbished store on Kehräämötie in Kajaani and a refurbished and expanded store in Turenki. In Siilinjärvi, Tokmanni centralised all its store operations into the Tokmanni store that has been in operation in the town for many years by closing the Ale-Makasiini located in other premises nearby. 

Before the end of the year, Tokmanni will expand its store network to two new locations: Vääksy and Virrat.¹) 

¹) https://ir.tokmanni.fi/en/investors/tokmanni-as-an-investment/new_stores


* The calculations use the figure of 2,000 kWh as the annual electricity consumption of an apartment and the figure of 20 kWh as the electricity consumption of an electric car for every 100 kilometres driven.  

TOKMANNI

For further information, please contact: 

Mathias Kivikoski
Sales and Marketing Director 

Tel. +358 20 728 6045
mathias.kivikoski(at)tokmanni.fi 

Harri Koponen
Store Network and Concept Director  

Tel. +358 20 728 6030
harri.koponen(at)tokmanni.fi 

Maarit Mikkonen
Investor Relations and Communications Manager 

Tel. +358 40 562 2282
maarit.mikkonen(at)tokmanni.fi 

Tokmanni is Finland’s leading discount retailer chain. Some 3,600 Tokmanni employees make customers’ everyday life and special occasions easier by offering a versatile and up-to-date assortment of Finnish and international brand-name products and other high-quality products at prices that are always affordable. With nearly 200 stores around Finland and an online store, Tokmanni is always close to its customers. Tokmanni’s revenue in 2018 amounted to EUR 870.4 million. Tokmanni shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.