K Group a main sponsor for the Pink Ribbon campaign for Finnish cancer research for the sixth year

K Group’s foodservice company Kespro is making changes to its transport packaging in order to reduce the consumption of cardboard by some 50 tonnes per year. As restaurants and cafés in Finland are obliged to recycle cardboard waste from foodservice ...

Kesko had a record year in 2020, as its sales grew and profitability improved significantly. In terms of sustainability, Kesko’s key actions included setting stricter climate targets, launching the Tracing Our Products website to increase the transpa...

K Group and EnerKey are carrying out a new pilot which uses artificial intelligence to identify opportunities to save energy at K-food stores. The first results indicate that artificial intelligence can help improve the energy efficiency of stores, b...

Cocoa from Africa, soy from South America and palm oil from Indonesia – how does K Group ensure that the production of the products it sells does not harm the environment? K Group sees loss of biodiversity as a significant threat and will further str...

The time that people spent at home, what they ate and drank, and remote working were all reflected in bottle collection figures. During the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, a record-breaking number of around 614 million deposit cans and bottles were re...

Kesko has been ranked as the most sustainable grocery trade company in the world for the seventh year. The ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’ list presents the world’s top 1% of sustainable companies based on a comprehensive sust...

Ruddy Kemppainen, a sign-language speaker who has enriched the whole workplace with his language, culture and positivity, serves customers at K-Market Otaniemi in Espoo. K-retailer Aleksi Tapani believes that since all his customers are different, th...

Responsibility for personnel means not only taking care of employees’ wellbeing and safety but also greater appreciation for diversity, inclusion and equality.

CDP, a global climate research provider that reviews how companies disclose and manage their environmental impacts, has given its best A score to six Finnish companies, Kesko among them. K Group is moving towards carbon neutrality by increasing the u...

Covid-19 has made the financial situation of many families more difficult this year. This is why Kesko has decided to give its Christmas donation to Hope ry, an organisation with good local networks that knows how to reach the families and children w...

This year, K Group has made changes to the packaging of 60 of its own brand products sold in grocery trade. The changes have resulted in considerable reductions in plastic use, equalling some 14 million plastic carrier bags. K Group’s objective is to...

Kesko – alongside five other Finnish companies – has been included in the esteemed Dow Jones Sustainability Index the DJSI World. The DJSI indices act as sustainable investment tools and include the best companies in each industry, determined based o...

When Ville Kestilä, retailer at K-market Tervapata, discovered that serious bullying among schoolchildren was going on near his store, he decided to do what he could as a retailer: The K-Market was declared a bullying-free zone and a safe place for t...

Where was the tuna purchased from your local K-store store caught? How do the farmers of Fairtrade roses use their Fairtrade premiums to benefit their community? Where does the timber used to build your new terrace come from? K Group’s new ‘Tracing o...

As the coronavirus epidemic has accelerated, the recommendation to use masks has been given in many regions. As a responsible company, the K Group is doing everything to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. In addition to the measures already take...

A survey commissioned by the Association for Finnish work, Ruokatieto association and Finnish Glasshouse Growers’ Association shows that during the coronavirus epidemic, the majority of Finns want to buy products and services that provide work for Fi...

Solar power production will increase in the Mäntsälä area when the solar power plant at K-Citymarket Mäntsälä is taken into use at the end of August. K Group, which is one of the largest solar power producers and users in Finland, invests in renewabl...

According to its new climate goals published in the spring, K Group aims to be carbon neutral in 2025 and reduce emissions to zero by 2030. Matti Kalervo, Vice President for Corporate Responsibility at Kesko, tells us more and how the goal will be ac...

K Group’s K-Ostokset service will soon provide customers with data on the nutritional values of their purchases from K Group grocery stores. The new feature, to be introduced before the end of the year, will allow K Group customers to examine their c...

The more than 40,000 solar power panels installed on the rooftops of K Group stores produced a record 3,000 MWh of pure solar electricity in May and June this year. When conditions are right, solar power can cover the majority of a store’s daily elec...