Coop Trondheim og Omegn BA

Selskap med begrenset ansvar

Selskap med begrenset ansvar shortened to BA is a Norwegian term for a corporation comparable to a limited liability company. Meaning literally Company with limited liability, it is a type of corporate structure used in Norway for limited companies based on a co-operative structure.-Legal...

or Trondos is the largest consumer cooperative part of Coop NKL

Coop NKL

Coop NKL BA is a Norwegian cooperative retailing company. Coop NKL is owned by 177 local cooperative associations in Norway and has more than one million members and who actually operate that stores. The company has its headquarters in Oslo...

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The cooperative operates 50 stores and has more than 100,000 members with operation in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, Klæbu

Klæbu

Klæbu is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of the Trondheim Region, about south of the city of Trondheim. The administrative center is the village of Klæbu. The other major village in Klæbu is Tanem.The village of Klæbu is located...

, Malvik

Malvik

Malvik is a village and a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik include Muruvika, Smiskaret, Sneisen, Vikhammer, and Hundhammeren.While "Malvik" refers...

, Melhus

Melhus

Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...

, Skaun

Skaun

Skaun is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvik, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja....

 and Stjørdal

Stjørdal

is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stjørdal, also called Stjørdalshalsen...

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The company operates two Coop Obs!

Coop Obs!

Coop Obs! is a chain of 24 hypermarkets throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. Prior to 2001 the stores were only branded as Obs!....

, five Coop Mega

Coop Mega

Coop Mega is a chain of supermarket stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives....

, two Coop S-Nærkjøp, one Coop Byggmix and 22 Coop Prix

Coop Prix

Coop Prix is a chain of 315 discount stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain was created in 1990 for the cooperatives to be able to compete with other discount stores like REMA 1000 and RIMI....

 as well as one Domus Interiør, one Coop Obs! Sport and two YX Energi fuel stations. It also owns the shopping centres City Lade

City Lade

City Lade is a shopping mall in Trondheim, Norway. It is found in the eastern part of Trondheim, called Lade. It is owned by Trondos, the Trondheim Cooperative....

 and City Syd

City Syd

City Syd is one of the largest shopping centres in Norway, and the largest in Midt-Norge, with a turnover of NOK 1.7 billion in 2004. It lies in Tiller, about 10 km south of the center of Trondheim. City Syd opened in 1987 and was remodeled and expanded in 2000. It is now 38,000 m² and...

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History

Trondos was founded on January 1, 1970 when seven cooperatives around Trondheim merged with the name Trondheim og Omegn Samvirkelag. But the first store was founded in 1895 in Hommelvik

Hommelvik

Hommelvik is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Malvik in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Hommelvika, a bay off of the Trondheimsfjord. It is about southwest of Muruvika, about southeast of Smiskaret, about east of Vikhammer,...

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