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You will now read about the department store Gekås, who is Sweden’s largest store and also Sweden’s most visited.
Enjoy!
Gekås
Scandinavia’s largest department store was founded in 1963. The department store is called Gekås Ullared AB.
Gekås has an area of 64000 square feet and it will be larger but it has not always been this big. It all started 1963 when a man named Göran Karlsson opened a shop on the ground floor in a house in the village Ullared. This was not a brilliant business when sales were 80 000 Swedish crowns during the two first years. That is about as much as Ullared may get in three minutes today.
Ullared moved in 1971 to larger surfaces and now makes huge sales.
Through time, Gekås. Göran sold his company in 1991 to six of his employees. This six employees expanded the sales. The customers liked the new development. Now, Ullared is just going forward. In 2006, Ullared came fourth in the competition “Sweden’s best workplace”. In 2007 they started to build more activities around Gekås, for example, Göran Karlssons motor museum.
Today, Gekås is Sweden’s largest shopping center and in 2010 it was visited by 4,5 million people. That is exactly as much as half of the Swedish population.
During all these years, Gekås has beaten a lot of records. For example, sales record for one day is 25,7 million crowns.
It’s often a long queue in to Gekås and the longest has been over 1,4 kilometers and it took 3,5 hours to get in to the store.
So, why are there so many people going to Gekås? Well, that’s because it’s cheap. It’s cheap and there is “everything for the home that fits in a car”.
You will now read about the department store Gekås, who is Sweden’s largest store and also Sweden’s most visited.
Enjoy!
Gekås
Scandinavia’s largest department store was founded in 1963. The department store is called Gekås Ullared AB.
Gekås has an area of 64000 square feet and it will be larger but it has not always been this big. It all started 1963 when a man named Göran Karlsson opened a shop on the ground floor in a house in the village Ullared. This was not a brilliant business when sales were 80 000 Swedish crowns during the two first years. That is about as much as Ullared may get in three minutes today.
Ullared moved in 1971 to larger surfaces and now makes huge sales.
Through time, Gekås. Göran sold his company in 1991 to six of his employees. This six employees expanded the sales. The customers liked the new development. Now, Ullared is just going forward. In 2006, Ullared came fourth in the competition “Sweden’s best workplace”. In 2007 they started to build more activities around Gekås, for example, Göran Karlssons motor museum.
Today, Gekås is Sweden’s largest shopping center and in 2010 it was visited by 4,5 million people. That is exactly as much as half of the Swedish population.
During all these years, Gekås has beaten a lot of records. For example, sales record for one day is 25,7 million crowns.
It’s often a long queue in to Gekås and the longest has been over 1,4 kilometers and it took 3,5 hours to get in to the store.So, why are there so many people going to Gekås? Well, that’s because it’s cheap. It’s cheap and there is “everything for the home that fits in a car”.
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