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The largest Finnish retail chain S Group generated over billion euros in grocery sales in 2024. The supermarket chain S-market reached around *** billion euros in sales, and Prisma hypermarkets close to *** 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 **** percent in 2023, over ten percent higher than the share of the main competitor K Group. K Group’s market share has declined by *** percent between 2019 and 2023, while the S Group slightly increased their shares of the Finnish grocery retail space. S Group operated grocery stores in 2023. There were ** Prisma hypermarkets, *** S-markets, *** Alepa and Sale stores. Supermarkets generated roughly **** billion euros of the S Group’s total revenue of **** 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 *** billion of the K-group’s total revenue of **** billion euros in 2023. The K Group consists of more than stores located in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. At the end of the year 2022,  the retailing cooperative had K-food stores, including ** K-Citymarket hypermarkets and smaller K-Market stores.