The Swedish trading company Clas Ohlson opens its second franchise store in Dubai. The store is located in Mercato Shopping Mall, a shopping centre which has five million visitors per year. It has a retail space of approximately 300 m² and contains an assortment of all five of the categories defined by Clas Ohlson for home improvement projects. For products not available on the store shelves, it is easy to order products from the full range assortment in Dubai directly from the store. "We look forward to seeing how our customers in Dubai appreciate the smaller store format," says Peter Jelkeby, Executive Vice President at Clas Ohlson, at the opening of the store.
During the financial year 2016/17, Clas Ohlson plans to expand the store network from the current 211 locations with three to eight new stores net.