About Jula

Jula offers handy people a wide and carefully chosen range of products for homes, gardens and leisure-time activities at low prices. We want to motivate people to simplify their everyday lives and to create an active and enjoyable life. And we aim higher – together we will get everyone to want to fix things themselves.

Jula is a company in continuous growth. Our sales over the past years have risen substantially and we are now one of the major companies operating on the Swedish, Norwegian and Polish retail markets via stores and E-commerce sales.

Lars-Göran Blank Entrepreneur and founder 1938-2014	Karl-Johan Blank Group CEO and owner

 

Important years in Jula’s history

• 1979 Jula industry started at the Jultorp estate
• 1984 Jula Postorder started
• 1985 Jula Postorder moves to Skara
• 1992 Second store opens (Drottninggatan, Stockholm)
• 1995 Jula has 100 employees, three stores and sales of SEK 200 million SEK
• 1996 G & K Blanks Fastigheter established
• 2000 Concept store in Kungens Kurva opens (Stockholm)
• 2004 Construction starts on central warehouse "CL" in Skara
• 2008 Jula has 1000 employees, 28 department stores and sales of SEK 2 billion SEK
• 2008 Jula establish stores in Norway
• 2009 Karl-Johan Blank becomes CEO
• 2010 Jula Postorder AB becomes Jula AB
• 2011 Jula establish stores in Poland
• 2012 Jula has 2000 employees, 59 store and sales of SEK 4.2 billion SEK
• 2014 Jula has 2500 employees, 77 store and sales of SEK 5.4 billion SEK
• 2014 Jula's founder Lars-Göran Blank dies
• 2014 The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria visited Jula in Skara
• 2015 The fourth stage of the central warehouse is completed. The warehouse has an area of over 150,000 square meters
• 2016 Jula relaunch E-commerce sales (2011 Jula stopped E-commerce sales to be more focused on store development)
• 2018 Jula has 3000 employees, 99 stores and sales of about 7 billion SEK.

 

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