Stockmann

Stockmann is a Finnish department store chain founded in 1862. The main business in the center of Helsinki is the largest department store in Finland and Scandinavia. Other branches are located in Helsinki district Itäkeskus, in Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku and Oulu in Finland as well as in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga.

History

Georg Franz Heinrich Stockmann ( born January 14, 1825; † January 6, 1906 in Bad Kreuznach ), came from Ritzerau in Lübeck. He came to Finland in 1852 and became Managing Director in 1859 in a shop on Senate Square in Helsinki. In 1862 he acquired this business and operating it since then under his own name. The G. F. Stockmann corporation ( shareholders G. F. Stockmann and his sons Karl and Frans) was founded in 1902.

The parent company in the Aleksanterinkatu was completed in 1930 and even then was equipped with hinged doors, refreshment stalls and escalators. The nearby bookstore " Akateeminen Kirjakauppa " was acquired in the same year.

In 1950, the first television broadcast of Finland from the Stockmann building was transferred. In the same decade, the branch was opened in Tampere. Other houses followed in Turku (1982 ), Moscow (1989 since 1998 as a department store ), Tallinn (1996 ), Riga ( 2003) and St. Petersburg ( 2010). 2014 Stockmann operates nine stores in Finland and the Baltic countries, as well as seven in Russia.

Since 1986, every year find the "crazy days " ( " hullut päivät " ) with bargains and special offers instead.