Kesko is the leading provider of trading sector services and a highly valued listed company. Kesko has about 2 000 stores engaged in chain operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus. Kesko is engaged in the food trade, the home and speciality goods trade, the building and home improvement trade, and the car and machinery trade.
Kesko Food is a strong operator in the Finnish grocery trade. K-retailers are responsible for customer satisfaction at the more than 1 000 K-food stores. Kesko Food manages K-citymarket’s food trade and the K-supermarket, K-market and K-extra chains.
Kesko’s home and speciality goods trade operates in the clothing, home, leisure, home technology, entertainment and furniture product lines. The home and speciality goods trade comprises Anttila Oy, K-citymarket Oy, Intersport Finland Ltd, Indoor Group Ltd, Musta Pörssi Ltd and Kenkäkesko Ltd.
Rautakesko operates in the building and home improvement supplies trade in Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic countries, Russia, and Belarus and the agricultural supplies trade in Finland. Rautakesko manages and develops its K-rauta, Rautia, K-maatalous, Byggmakker, Senukai and OMA retail chains and B2B sales in its operating area.
K-rauta is Rautakesko’s international concept. K-rauta operates in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Russia. The K-rauta concept focuses on wide selections, total solutions that make customers’ lives easier and a good price-quality ratio.
VV-Auto and Konekesko make up the car and machinery trade division. VV-Auto imports and markets Volkswagen, Audi and Seat passenger cars, and Volkswagen commercial vehicles in Finland, and it also imports and markets Seat passenger cars in Estonia and Latvia. VV-Auto is also engaged in car retailing and provides after-sales services at its own outlets in the Greater Helsinki area and Turku.
Konekesko is a service company specialising in the import and sales of construction, environmental and agricultural machinery, trucks and buses, and recreational machinery. Konekesko operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Konekesko imports among other things Yamaha outboard motors and motorcycles and arranges the manufacture of and sells Yamarin boats in Finland and exports them to several European countries and Russia.
The Kesko Group’s net sales totalled €8 447 million in 2009. Kesko and K-Group stores employ some 45 000 people in eight countries.
Kesko is included in the Dow Jones sustainability indexes, DJSI World and DJSI STOXX, and also in the FTSE4Good indexes, for example. Kesko also continues on the ‘The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations’ list published by the World Economic Forum.
Kesko Corporation A and B shares are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange of Nasdaq OMX Helsinki Ltd.