When the genuine spouses Göran Karlsson To Ullared and MARGARETA Björklund Founded Gekås Ullared it was a small shop, located on the ground floor of a villa in the small Dutch community.
Nowadays Gekås Ullared is one of Europe’s largest department stores and Sweden’s most popular tourist destinations, according to the company themselves.
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Gekås Ullared founder Göran Karlsson. Photo: Press Picture/TT
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During a Saturday in November last year, 23,200 customers visited the department store. They then acted for SEK 50.8 million, which was a new sales record.
– Last week we set a weekly record with a sale that passed for the first time 200 million. To follow it directly with a day record that bursts the 50 million walls feels incredibly fun, said Patrik Levin, CEO of Gekås Ullared, in a press release when.
Patrik Levin. Photo: Katarina Larssin/Gekås Ullaredgekås Ullared warns: “Help us”
Gekås Ullared has also grown in social media. Instagram has over 293,000 followers and the department store’s official Facebook page is followed by over 231,000 people.
And it is also on the latter platform that the company now goes out with a warning to all customers. The company’s brand has been exploited by fraudsters – something they are far from alone.
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“Note: It circulates fraud attempts on Facebook and Instagram that can look like below, see pictures. This is not Gekås Ullared! Do not press any links and leave no personal information. Help us report the account! Thanks!”, Writes the company in a post on Facebook, where you also share screen pictures on Reels showing various offers.
Photo: Screen image/Facebook/Gekås Ullared
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Patrik Levin: “Think it was we who discovered it”
When News24 Ask Gekås Ullared if anyone has actually been deceived by the fraudsters, Patrik Levin answers the following in a written comment:
“Not as I know. Hope and believe that it was we ourselves who discovered it.”
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