verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message hl ns city stockholm hl ns swedish pronunciation o le ns is a chain of swedish department stores . with locations in almost every city in the country including as many as 18 in stockholm alone as of march 2007 update it is the 4th largest group of fashion stores in sweden . 1 hl ns also has business operations in norway . contents 1 history 2 the progress of hl ns 3 references 4 external links history edit at the beginning hl ns was a mail order business . it was created in 1899 by johan petter hl n and erik holm in the little town of insj n in the province of dalarna . the name of the company was then hl n och holm hl n and holm . the first thing the company sold was a royal painting . over 100 000 copies were sold and it was very successful . the years went by and hl n and holm only got bigger . after only 10 years jp hl n had a company with a worth of 1.5 million sek and 255 employed workers . in 1915 the company was moved to stockholm . before he moved the company jp hl n had secured a seven floor storage room . half of the employees came with him to stockholm . in 1932 jp hl n decided that he wanted to expand the business and create a retail trade store with low prices . so he established the tempo department store and opened it on stermalmstorg in stockholm . jp hl n died in 1939 leaving the companies to his oldest son . on the 50th anniversary 1945 of the establishment of hl ns and holm his son could present a company worth 87 million sek and with an employment list of more than 2700 workers . the mail order business was closed down in the 1960s and a store called hl ns city was opened in 1964 in the heart of stockholm . in 1985 all the tempo department stores re branded as hl ns . in 1988 hl ns city was sold to axel johnson ab which is owned by antonia ax son johnson . the progress of hl ns edit the hl ns stores have now been converted into department stores and moved upmarket and now concentrate in four business areas fashion mode beauty sk nhet homeware hem and media . 2 hl ns loyalty card is called the hl ns club . 3 in 2009 hl ns city s sales was summarized to 6 202 million sek in stores and the profit was 216 million sek . references edit hlens progress pdf . axeljohnson.se . axel johnson ab . retrieved 26 january 2011 . hlens history . ahlens.se in swedish . ahlens ab . retrieved 26 january 2011 . hl ns club . ahlens.se in swedish . hlens ab . retrieved 26 january 2011 . external links edit official website axel johnson official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hl ns & oldid 709830561 categories department stores of swedencompanies based in stockholm1899 establishments in swedenretail companies established in 1899hidden categories cs1 swedish language sources sv articles needing additional references from december 2008all articles needing additional referencesarticles containing potentially dated statements from march 2007all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages danskdeutschespa olfran aisnederlandsnorsk bokm lsuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 13 march 2016 at 09 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view