HEMA opens store in Gare du Nord

Dutch department store chain HEMA will open a new shop on the Paris railway station Gare du Nord on 9 March. This will be the ninth shop HEMA has opened in France since 2009.

With a floor space of just 70 square meters this is the smallest HEMA shop in the chain and the company’s first station shop. A second HEMA station shop is soon to follow: on 21 March the company will open a shop at the Paris station Gare Saint Lazare.

The shops at Gare du Nord and Gare St Lazare will offer a product range geared to the needs of train travellers, from stockings to the ever-popular Dutch treacle waffles.

HEMA was founded in Amsterdam in 1926 and currently forms part of the Lion Capital investment company. The department store chain has more than 600 shops in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.

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