Aiming for ten per cent market share

Rautakesko, the building and DIY division of the Finnish Kesko group, is now aiming for a network of 25 K-rauta stores and a market share of ten per cent in Sweden. At the moment the company has a total of eleven Swedish locations. A comprehensive programme of modernisation for the K-rauta and Rautia stores in Finland is scheduled to be carried out over the course of this current year.
Stores 2003 and 2002
2003
2002
K-rauta
43
44
Rautia
102
102
K-customer agreement stores
44
47
Finland, total
189
193
K-rauta, Sweden
11
11
K-rauta, Estonia
4
4
K-rauta, Latvia
1
1
Senukai, Lithuania
10
0
Foreign countries, total
26
16
Hardware and builders' suppliers stores, total
215
209