Nordiska Kompaniet

Nordiska Kompaniet (colloquially NK, and literally The Nordic Company) is the name of two luxury department stores located in Stockholm and Gothenburg, in Sweden.

The trademark and the real estate properties in Gothenburg and Stockholm are owned by Hufvudstaden AB, controlled by L E Lundbergföretagen publ (see Fredrik Lundberg).

In the 1930s, the company specialized in old-fashioned luxury furniture, which had begun to go out of vogue in Sweden due to changing tastes and living conditions.

The neon sign was however not affected by the fire and since 1964 it sits on a custom-designed tower on the NK building's roof, 87 meters above street level.

The extension stands on the former lot of Stockholm's old electric power plant, which remarkably was the first major work by NK's original architect Boberg.

Ad from 1915.