R-kioski

R-kioski Oy

Formerly	Rautatiekirjakauppa
Company type	Joint-stock company
Founded	1910 (R-kioski Oy: 2011)
Headquarters	Finland
Number of locations	560 (Finland 2017)[1] 107 (Estonia 2014)
Area served	Finland Estonia
Key people	Johannes Sangnes (CEO) Ann-Charlotte Schalin (Head of marketing)
Products	Retail
Revenue	€318,226,000 (2013) €320,153,000 (2012) [2]
Operating income	€5,116,000 (2013) €-11,446,000 (2012) [2]
Owner	Reitan Convenience
Number of employees	2,671 (2013) 2,781 (2012) [2]
Parent	Reitan Group
Website	www.r-kioski.fi

R-kioski (known as R-kiosk in Estonia) is a chain of convenience stores that is part of the Reitan Convenience division of the Reitan Group. Reitan's Eastern Nordic and Baltic portfolio includes R-kioski in Finland, R-kiosk in Estonia and Lietuvos spauda [lt] in Lithuania. There are 560 R-kioski shops across Finland as of 2017^[update].^[1] They sell a range of products, such as books, magazines, cigarettes and tobacco, ready meals, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks such as beer and cider (up to 5.5% ABV, hence excluding harder liquor such as wine and spirits, whose sales are by Finnish law controlled by the Alko alcohol monopoly). R-kioski shops also provide services such as the various "Veikkaus" lottery games (and in some stores, slot machines), prepaid SIM cards and top-up vouchers, postal services, fishing licences, as well as the sale of public transport tickets. Selected shops are also able to sell national rail and bus transport tickets.

R-kioski is known as "Ärrä" (the name of the letter R in Finnish) in common language. The company slogan is "Nopeaa ja mukavaa on asiointi" (It's swift and convenient to shop).

The first R-kiosk in Estonia opened in 1993, and as of 2014^[update] there are 107 shops in Estonia.^[3] Reitan Convenience posted a turnover of 1.63 billion euros in 2017.^[1] Reitan Convenience invested 18 million euros in R-kioski in 2013 and 2014 together. The money was invested to broaden the product selection as well as to lower the price of food to par with other retail chains competing in the same market such as Alepa, Lidl and Siwa.^[4]