Marimekko's net sales grow by 7.2%

18 Aug '11

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In the next few years, Marimekko's expansion in international markets will focus on North America, Northern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Several new Marimekko stores will be opened abroad this autumn. Two weeks ago, we opened our own retail store at Copenhagen Airport. The autumn will also see the opening of our own stores in Stockholm, Oslo and London.

In the United States, our own flagship store will be opened on Fifth Avenue in New York at the beginning of October, and two more Marimekko stores will open in Crate and Barrel home furnishings stores later in the autumn, one in Boston and the other in the Miami area. During the second quarter of the year, Crate and Barrel opened Marimekko stores in its stores in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York's Madison Avenue.

We are also actively investigating the possibilities to expand our operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Our objective is to find a local partner in certain markets, who would be responsible for opening Marimekko stores and other distribution of our products, to high-end department stores, for example. This method of operations has brought very positive results in Japan and South Korea; in these countries, 22 Marimekko stores have already been opened. The store openings and investigations taking place this autumn are in line with our previously announced internationalisation strategy.”

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