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Well-being has long been one of the most popular food trends and Finns consider comprehensive well-being to be very important. However, the Finnish diet has room for improvement. K Group faces the challenge by making healthier choices easier to make....

At the end of 2022, K-Group's grocery trade division made two environmental commitments: As part of the SUP Green Deal, the K-Group's grocery trade will reduce its consumption of single-use plastic packaging. In the food industry's own material effic...

The K Group and the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare are working in cooperation to gather funds to support the Ukrainians in Finland. The funds from the Ukraine bows, which will be available for sale at the K grocery shops on 5 December, will be u...

In a short time, K Group and the quick commerce pioneer Wolt have been able to establish an effective concept for fast grocery deliveries in Finland. 127 K-Market stores at 40 locations around Finland now offer fast deliveries in collaboration with W...

K-food stores have been promoting Fairtrade for over 20 years. The Finns took a liking to the Pirkka Fairtrade rose bouquets immediately when they appeared in K-food stores in 2006. The Fairtrade symbol on the flowers is proof that the well-being of ...

Kesko and Berner started a pilot for a pioneering circular economy cooperation scheme in January 2022 where coffee grounds from Neste K service stations are used to make Pirkka home gardening products. Now, the first test batch of earth for growing h...

Buying red label products that are close to their sell-by date is a good way to help reduce food waste and at the same time save money on grocery shopping. Thanks to systematic food waste reduction measures, the K Group has been able to reduce food w...

Finnish consumers are interested in saving water and energy. According to a survey* by K-Rauta, consumers are joining the effort to save energy by favouring energy-efficient lighting, air source heat pumps, and showers and faucets that help save wate...

Finland’s first automation-assisted in-store collection centre for online grocery orders is now up and running, and the K-Citymarket Ruoholahti hypermarket in Helsinki has delivered the first online grocery orders robots have helped to collect. This ...

During the summer, K-stores’ shelves are full of various local products. One speciality in the selection of many K-stores is the store’s own honey, for which beehives are kept on the stores’ roofs and at the edges of nearby fields. Following the cool...

K Group intends to add the Heart Symbol, granted by the Finnish Heart Association, to approximately 200 existing Pirkka and Pirkka Parhaat products. The Heart Symbol is granted to products that are a healthier choice in a specific product category. T...

The banana has been the favourite fruit of Finns for decades. However, banana production has become more challenging due to climate change and the extreme weather conditions it causes. K Group now reveals the origin and route of this firm favourite t...

Last year, K-Citymarket Lohja removed rugosa rose bushes from an area of thousands of square metres on the shop grounds. On Thursday 19 May, there will be a community work event to plant endemic plants in place of this invasive species. This is inten...

K Group’s goal is to halve its food waste by 2030. Achieving this ambitious goal requires continuous development, which includes ideas stemming from the circular economy concept, such as products made from otherwise wasted food. The Hyvis product lin...

K Group reached its target of decreasing food waste by 13% from the 2016 level by 2021. In addition to systematic selection management, K-stores’ innovative solutions, such as loss-preventing discount shelves and the increasing amount of products tha...

Kesko’s Building and Technical Trade division is the first operator in the trade sector to join the voluntary Green Deal of Construction Plastics. The division includes the technical wholesale company Onninen and the K-Rauta chain, which serves both ...

The Board of Directors of Kesko Corporation has approved a new sustainability strategy for Kesko. The strategy sets clear sustainability targets for the operations of Kesko and its three divisions. The focus areas of the sustainability strategy are c...