Co-location index: Nordics
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Co-location Index: Nordics" title: "Co-location index: Nordics" slug: atlas-co-location-index-nordics category: markets type: topic @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC last_edited: 2026-05-25 last_edited: 2026-07-11 editor: pointsav-engineering short_description: "Ranked index of commercial convergence sites across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, anchored by IKEA with Nordic secondary operators." paired_with: markets/atlas-co-location-index-nordics.es.md @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ The Nordics Co-location Index ranks commercial nodes across Northern Europe usin ## Anchor Network IKEA maintains approximately 55 stores across the Nordic region: Sweden (~20), Denmark (~8), Norway (~8), Finland (~7), and Iceland (~1). Secondary anchors vary by country: Bauhaus DIY operates in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland; Biltema and Jula cover Sweden and Norway; Stark operates in Denmark. The Nordic healthcare and university systems concentrate infrastructure in capital cities and major university towns — Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo, Bergen, Helsinki, and Tampere each have major hospital systems and research universities within the same urban catchment areas as IKEA stores. IKEA maintains approximately 55 stores across the Nordic region: Sweden (~20), Denmark (~8), Norway (~8), Finland (~7), and Iceland (~1). **Correction (2026-08-02):** the listed components sum to 44 (20+8+8+7+1), not 55 — too large a gap (~25%) to be rounding. **Flagged, not resolved.** Secondary anchors vary by country: Bauhaus DIY operates in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland; Biltema and Jula cover Sweden and Norway; Stark operates in Denmark. The Nordic healthcare and university systems concentrate infrastructure in capital cities and major university towns — Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo, Bergen, Helsinki, and Tampere each have major hospital systems and research universities within the same urban catchment areas as IKEA stores. ## Nordic market characteristics @@ -45,4 +48,4 @@ A Tier 4+ designation indicates a node where primary anchor presence is supporte --- *Copyright © 2026 Woodfine Capital Projects Inc. Licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).* *Copyright © 2026 Woodfine Capital Projects Inc. Licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/).*