The largest Finnish retail chain S Group generated over 10.16 billion euros in grocery sales in 2022. The supermarket chain S-market reached around 4.8 billion euros in sales, and Prisma hypermarkets over 3.7 billion euros.
The S Group is a Finnish retailing co-operative headquartered in Helsinki. The group consists of independent regional cooperatives and SOK Corporation, which is owned by the cooperatives, and its subsidiaries. Grocery stores belonging to the S Group include hypermarkets, larger supermarkets and smaller local supermarkets located in residential areas of larger cities or at service stations.
S Group in numbers
The market share of the S Group in Finland was roughly 47 percent in 2022, over ten percent higher than the share of the main competitor K Group. S Group’s market share has declined by one percent between 2016 and 2019, while the K Group and Lidl slightly increased their shares of the Finnish grocery retail space. S Group operated 1,073 grocery stores in 2022. There were 74 Prisma hypermarkets, 452 S-markets, 457 Alepa and Sale stores. Supermarkets generated roughly 9.7 billion euros of the S Group’s total revenue of 13.5 billion euros. Finland is the main market of the S Group, but it also operates in the Baltics.
Second largest player: K Group
The K Group, also known as Kesko, operates in the grocery, specialty goods, car, as well as building and technical trade. Grocery trade is K Group’s most important business area, which generated roughly 6.1 billion of the K-group’s total revenue of 11.8 billion euros in 2022. The K Group consists of more than 1,800 stores located in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. At the end of the year 2022, the retailing cooperative had 1,220 K-food stores, including 81 K-Citymarket hypermarkets and smaller K-Market stores.
Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain
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Finnish Grocery Trade Association. (June 30, 2023). Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain (in million euros) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/
Finnish Grocery Trade Association. "Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain (in million euros)." Chart. June 30, 2023. Statista. Accessed August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/
Finnish Grocery Trade Association. (2023). Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain (in million euros). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/
Finnish Grocery Trade Association. "Grocery Sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by Chain (in Million Euros)." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Jun 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/
Finnish Grocery Trade Association, Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain (in million euros) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/ (last visited August 24, 2024)
Grocery sales of S Group in Finland in 2022, by chain (in million euros) [Graph], Finnish Grocery Trade Association, June 30, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/709787/grocery-sales-of-s-group-in-finland-by-chain/