PUB (Stockholm)

PUB was one of the major department stores in Stockholm, Sweden, located in two buildings at Hötorget, Stockholm city center.

PUB was opened in 1882 and rapidly expanded.

The name PUB is for the initials of Paul Urbanus Bergström, the founder of the store, who owned a great deal of buildings and business in the area.

After Bergström's death in 1934, the operations were taken over by Konsum Stockholm, a Swedish consumer association in Stockholm.

In 2015, plans were announced to close the last remaining portion of the store and convert the entire building to the Scandic Hotel Haymarket.

The main building comprising PUB departments stores at Hötorget, Stockholm city. Photo: 2006.