Marimekko Corporation PRESS RELEASE
24 November 2010 at 10.00 a.m.
MARIMEKKO SHOP OPENS IN MALMÖ
Marimekko's latest retail shop is celebrating its opening today in Malmö,
Sweden. The shop, which opened to the public on 15 November 2010, carries the
whole range of Marimekko products: printed fabrics and other interior decoration
products as well as clothes, bags and accessories. The approximately
125-square-metre shop has an excellent location on a pleasant and busy shopping
street in the city centre. The immediate neighbours include the Form/Design
Center, a popular meeting place for people interested in design and
architecture, which holds numerous exhibitions and seminars each year.
Sweden and the other Nordic countries have been like another domestic market for
Marimekko for decades, and the company seeks to further underpin its position in
this market. The newly opened shop in Malmö is a continuation of the work,
started in 2009, to expand the distribution network. Last year Marimekko's shop
in Stockholm was expanded and remodelled, and a new concept store was opened in
Copenhagen.
“Malmö is a highly central city in Southern Sweden, where Marimekko is already
very well known. By opening a shop based on our updated retail store concept in
the city, we aim to further reinforce our presence in this area. As Sweden's
third-largest city, Malmö is also attractive to us because of its large customer
flows. The Öresund bridge merges Malmö and Copenhagen into the Nordic region's
largest metropolitan area, with some 2.4 million inhabitants. We have now two
retail shops of our own in Sweden, and I see potential in the market for more
shops in the future,” says Mika Ihamuotila, President and CEO of Marimekko.
At the moment there are a total of 83 Marimekko stores in Finland and abroad, of
which 27 are company's own retail shops. Of these 22 are in Finland and five
abroad: in Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Malmö and Stockholm.
The address of the Marimekko shop in Malmö is Skomagaregatan 6.
MARIMEKKO CORPORATION
Group Communications
Piia Pakarinen
Tel. +358 9 758 7293
Fax +358 9 755 3051
E-mail: piia.pakarinen@marimekko.fi
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Marimekko is a leading Finnish textile and clothing design house. Through its
timeless and individual designs, Marimekko wants to create aesthetic experiences
for every moment in life for people of all ages. The array of Marimekko design
embraces interior decoration items ranging from furnishing fabrics to tableware
as well as clothing, bags, jewellery and other accessories. When Marimekko was
founded in 1951, the unparalleled patterns and colours of its printed fabrics
gave it a strong and unique identity. Marimekko products are available in
roughly 40 countries. In 2009, Marimekko's net sales were EUR 72.5 million, of
which international sales accounted for 27.3%. Marimekko's shares are quoted on
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
