The S Group (Finnish: S-ryhmä, Swedish: S-gruppen) is a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation with its head office in Helsinki. Founded in 1904, it consists of 22 regional cooperatives operating all around Finland in the markets for groceries, consumer durables, service station, hotel and restaurant services, agricultural supplies, and car sales. The full formal name of the nationwide cooperative organisation is Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta (SOK).
The group has businesses in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.
The organisation's loyalty card is called S-Etukortti. It is engaged in close competition with Kesko, with which it shares an oligopolistic position in many of the markets it operates in.
Read more about S Group: Ownership, Corporate, Local Co-operatives, Supermarkets, Other Fields, S-Bank, Major Competitors
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