Baugur Group Information

About Baugur Group Baugur Group is an international investment company focussing on investments within the fields of retail, property and media in Iceland, the UK, and Scandinavia. Companies related to Baugur Group employ some 75,000 people worldwide in over 3,900 stores with a total turnover of £9.8 billion. The CEO of Baugur Group is Gunnar Sigurðsson and the Executive Chairman is Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson. Among Baugur's principal Retail investments are the supermarket chain Iceland, the toy retailer Hamleys, Woodward Foodservice, the jewellery chain Goldsmiths, fashion chains MK One and Jane Norman, the health products chain Julian Graves, fashion company Mosaic Fashions, renowned UK department store chain, House of Fraser, Hagar, Iceland's largest retailer, the famous Danish department store chain Magasin du Nord and Illum, one of Denmark's largest department stores. Baugur also has a substantial, but non-controlling, indirect stake in the AIM-listed wholesaler Booker Group. Among the principal Property investments are property holding companies Landic Property, Smáralind and Eik as well as development companies Þyrping and Nordicom. Baugur's main investments within the Media & Technology division are the media company 365 and the electronic communications and IT company Teymi. Baugur Group is also a major shareholder in the Icelandic investment company FL Group.