Flying Tiger Copenhagen

General information

This is the Flying Tiger Copenhagen page for the UK. The updates on this page are in English, if you speak other languages, you can find localised Flying Tiger Copenhagen Facebook pages for each country we sell in. History Founded by Lennart Lajboschitz, the first Tiger store opened in Copenhagen in 1995. Originally a surplus store, it sold cheap merchandise of all sorts for 10 kroner (€1.5). By 2000 40 stores had opened in major Danish cities. In 2001, the first non-Danish Tiger store opened in Reykjavik, Iceland. Nine years later, Tiger had stores in 10 countries and the 100th store opened for business. In 2013, Tiger stores served more than 39 million customers across Europe and Japan. By the end of 2015 there will be close to 500 Tiger stores in 25 countries. When Tiger was first founded, the stores were known by the name “Zebra”. That name was changed to the more tongue-in-cheek “Tiger”. In Danish, Tiger is pronounced tee’-yuh, which means both tiger and “tenner” (10 kroner). However, the stores are called “TGR” in Sweden and Norway, “Flying Tiger” in the Netherlands, and “Flying Tiger Copenhagen” in Japan. The concept Tiger is a Danish design store with a quirky, ever-changing selection of own-designed and branded products at affordable prices, all in whole Euros. 80 % of all products are priced at under €5, and none costs more than €30. Over time, Tiger’s business focus has shifted from cheap to unique, from generic to own-designed products, from single to multiple...