Kärkkäinen (chain store)

[1] In 2016, it was the fourth largest discount store chain in Finland after Tokmanni, HalpaHalli and Motonet.

The district court drew up a ten-year repayment program for the company.

[6] The connections of the free newspaper distribution to the neo-Nazi organization Finnish Resistance Movement have also been detrimental to the company's reputation.

[7][8] Largely due to the uproar, many companies do not sell their products in Kärkkäinen's stores; Finlayson, Fiskars and Otava, among others, have terminated the cooperation.

[9][10][11] In 2021, Juha Kärkkäinen urged his employees in an internal email not to take the coronavirus vaccine.