16 August 2012 Finnish corporation SOK opened the tenth supermarket Prisma in St. Petersburg. A supermarket is situated in the building of a subway station “International” which now is under construction.
“The close location to the metro station and highways will be the undisputed advantage of this object, – commented Vesa Punnonen, president of SOK Retail Int. – Also, Prisma is located close to densely populated residential area with insufficient infrastructure of grocery stores. ”
“Until the end of January 2013, we plan to open four new supermarkets, three of them hypermarket format. In the future there will be a network of 20-30 supermarkets”- Vesa Punnonen added.
The chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets Prisma is owned by the Finnish Holding S-Group. In St. Petersburg Corporation SOK (part of the S-Group), besides retail supermarkets Prisma, owns three hotels – spa-hotel Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge, Sokos Hotel Vasilievsky and Sokos Hotel Olympic Garden.
Source: www.retailer.ru