Flying Tiger Copenhagen

Flying Tiger Copenhagen (formerly TIGER)
legal form	A / S
Seat	Copenhagen , Denmark
management	Managing Director / Interim CEO: Michael Hauge Sørensen (2017)
Number of employees	3500 (2017)
sales	2.562 billion crowns (2014)
Branch	retail trade
Website	de.flyingtiger.com

Flying Tiger Copenhagen (previously Tiger ) is a Danish retail company . The first store opened in Copenhagen in 1995 . At the end of 2016, the Flying Tiger Group had 745 branches in 30 countries.

Initially, Tiger sold goods from overproduction. The company is now an independent brand: many products are designed by its own designers and are only sold by Tiger.

history

Based on a repair service for umbrellas from Lennart Lajboschitz's father's trading company and the import of products from Asia, Lennart Lajboschitz's first retail store was opened in Copenhagen in 1987.

In 1991 Lennart Lajboschitz founded the company Zebra A / S and in 1995 opened his first shop called "Zebra". The name “Tiger” was created with the second shop. This resulted in the “Tiger” retail chain. In 2001 the first shop outside Denmark was opened in Reykjavík , Iceland . The Tiger stores outside Denmark are run as outsourced companies.

Tiger has been around in Germany since the end of 2006. The first shop was opened in Flensburg . All products are offered at fixed prices in Germany. The range of goods consists of standard goods and a changing range. The offer includes goods for everyday use. In 2010, Tiger said it had 100 branches in 10 countries and in 2015 it had over 80 million customers across Europe with 585 shops.

In mid-2016 the name was changed to "Flying Tiger Copenhagen". At the end of 2016, the number of locations had increased to 745 branches in 30 countries.

Management

In October 2012 Lennart Lajboschitz sold 70 percent of his shares to the EQT VI private equity fund from EQT Investors. The long-standing managing director was Christian Mariager, he had been an employee of the company since 2013 and left the company in October 2016. In January 2015, Xavier Vidal was appointed managing director. In January 2017 the company announced another change: Michael Hauge Sørensen replaces the previous managing director Xavier Vidal as interim CEO.

International branches

Tiger Store in Amerikamura , Chūō-ku , Osaka .

former logo until mid-2016

Status: May 2018

Country	Shops
Spain Spain	119
Italy Italy	113
United Kingdom United Kingdom	92
Denmark Denmark	76
Germany Germany	57
Sweden Sweden	52
Norway Norway	45
France France	42
Poland Poland	37
Portugal Portugal	32
Finland Finland	31
Ireland Ireland	25th
Japan Japan	23
Belgium Belgium	23
Netherlands Netherlands	22nd
Czech Republic Czech Republic	15th
Greece Greece	12
Austria Austria	11
Switzerland Switzerland	9
Korea South South Korea	8th
United States United States	8th
Estonia Estonia	7th
Hungary Hungary	6th
Latvia Latvia	6th
Lithuania Lithuania	6th
Iceland Iceland	5
Slovakia Slovakia	5
Cyprus Republic Cyprus	4th
Malta Malta	3
Faroese Faroe Islands	1