Kalaallit Røde Korsiat i Ilulissat har netop modtaget en check på 8208,-, som er samlet ind med hjælp fra Ilulissat Center Markeds lokale kunder, der har købt Kaffigooq og doneret flaskeboner i butikken. Alle pengene er ubeskåret gået til Kalaallit Røde Korsiats arbejde med at hjælpe socialt udsatte i Ilulissat.

Read more: Tomme flasker og Kaffigooq støtter de udsatte

Arctic Import, der er en del af Arctic Group koncernen, overtager Kontorhuset fra Inu:IT Kontorhuset A/S pr. 1. december 2011. Samtidig skifter Inu:ITs tre kontorforsyningsbutikker i Nuuk, Sisimiut og Qaqortoq navn til Arctic Import Kontorhuset. Dermed bliver det muligt for Arctic Import at skabe arbejdspladser i Sisimiut og Qaqortoq, ligesom det er tilfældet i Nuuk, Ilulissat og Uummannaq, hvor virksomheden i dag er repræsenteret med engroslager og detailbutikker.

Read more: Mere vækst i de grønlandske vækstbyer er på vej

For at sikre sine fremtidige vækstmuligheder flytter Arctic Group A/S i begyndelsen af 2012 alle sine danske aktiviteter fra Tagholm i Nørresundby til Aalborg Havn. Handelsvirksomheden Arctic Group, der har en produktportefølje på 250.000 varenumre, lejer af Aalborg Havn A/S 1018 m2 administrationsbygning, samlet på én etage, og 1800 m2 lager og logistikkontor.

Udflytningen er blevet muliggjort af, at Royal Arctic Line A/S og Royal Arctic Logistics A/S om kort tid flytter fra det nuværende domicil på Langerak til det nyopførte administrative center, logistikpakhus og lagerhotel længere mod øst.

Read more: Væksten flyttes til Østhavnen

In connection with the local regional radio, P4 Nordjylland, running a theme on North Jutland's relations with Greenland in week 38, Arctic Import owner Ole Nielsen was interviewed live on the radio about Arctic Import and the company's work in Greenland. The interview lasted approx. six minutes, and according to Ole, he could have spent much more time talking about Arctic Import and the company’s development.

Read more: The regional radio visits Arctic Import

For a Greenlandic / Danish company as Arctic Import it is important to have competent and qualified staff who knows the Greenlandic culture and masters the language. Therefore, we were represented as the Greenland House in Aalborg held SEASHOW - a floating education and recruitment exhibition in Greenland, whose purpose is to promote education and strengthen cooperation between Greenland and Denmark within the commercial and cultural life.

Read more: SEASHOW - a floating network

Corporate social responsibility is an important part of the values of Arctic Group – we call it We Care.  Therefore Arctic Import recently supported the Red Cross’ appeal for the drought catastrophe in the Horn of Africa. It happened through the yearly sports day at GU in Nuuk. This year, the event was changed into a charity event for the benefit of Africa.

August 26, students and teachers ran as many turns as possible in 2 hours at a 1 km route.

For the arrangement, GU Nuuk applied for sponsorships where sponsors could give a chosen amount of money per km. Arctic Import decided to sponsor 0.50 DKK per km.

Making up the run showed that students and teachers ran 2,062 km in total. One boy distinguished himself by running the route 16 times – meaning 16 km in two hours.

With the transfer of the main activity of XL-BYG Arctic Import to Optimera, Arctic Group takes a crucial step in the company's history. Going forward, the focus should be on the product areas and concept solutions where Arctic Group is a strong and experienced player on the market in Greenland.

Transfer of the main activity of XL-BYG Arctic Import

With retroactive effect to 1 January, shares of the activity of XL-BYG Arctic Import are tranferred to Optimera from where the operation of construction goods will be carried on. Consolidation in the construction industry is going fast in the coming years, and within a few years there will be only a few providers left in the industry.

Read more: Arctic Group changes focus

XL-BYG Arctic Import and Scantruck deliver bulldozer, loader, dumper, and backhoe loader to the Mining School in Sisimiut. Future contractors and mine workers in Greenland are to learn to deal with mountains and mountain massif by aid of machines delivered by XL-BYG Arctic Import and Scantruck.

Read more: Komatsu Strengthens Education in Greenland

As from 1st June 2010 Arctic Import Ltd. enters into the wholesale company UniGros Denmark with a 25% owner share. UniGros Nord becomes a department in Arctic Import Ltd. having two driving sales consultants servicing customers in Jutland in the area from Ringkøbing to Århus and Skagen (not including Randers and Djursland).

Read more: Arctic Import Ltd. and UniGros Strengthen their Position in Jutland

By delivering food and furniture to Citronfjorden in the northernmost part of Greenland  Arctic Group has added yet another chapter to its history about supply of goods to the world’s most remote areas geographically.

By Citronfjorden 25 miners are living 12 weeks at a time while examining the underground for rare minerals in this part of Greenland for the Australian company Ironbark.

Read more: Pursuing possibilities

Many people had turned up this Friday morning, when the doors were opened wide to the newly refurbished Ilulissat Centre Market.

The spirits were high and the atmosphere was reflected by the opening ceremony at which both customers and assistants were enthusiastic about the development the supermarket has undergone.

Proudly Ilulissat Centre Market could show the result of a long period of work now appearing as a modern and stylistically consistent supermarket.

Read more: Opening with Great Success

lulissat Centre Market opens a 1,000 m 2 shop after radical restoration

After a long period of rebuilding Ilulissat Centre Market throws open the doors to the new shop Friday 26th February.

The space of the shop has been extended significantly from its former 450 m2 to the new 1,000 m2 and is full of new exciting product groups and concepts making shopping easy for the customers.

Read more: Re-opening Supermarket in Ilulissat

New board diminishes geographical limitations and increases involvement in teaching and meetings.

Time is Money

We say time is money! Therefore most people seek to limit the time wasted each day on systems and procedures which are inefficient. 
With the new interactive whiteboard, DuoBoard, the possibilities to run efficient meetings, create involving presentations and an interactive teaching is highly present. – Create a quicker sharing of knowledge without geographical limitations and minimize travel activities in the company!

Read more: Sharing Knowledge on a High Level

NORDJYSKE Media – 20th August 2009

In Greenland tasks need joint hands, Arctic Group considers. Network is the key word when 150 businessmen from North Jutland and Greenland meet at a seminar today about future possibilities for cooperation between Greenland and North Jutland. And network is also the model for solution which can pave the way to get a share of the orders which follow in the wake of the mining activities in the years ahead. 

Read more: Ready for Mining Projects

The pre-teen girls at SAK were all big smiles when they entered the green for the first Children’s Cup in handball this year in Sisimiut. Wearing their new players’ clothes from XL-BYG Arctic Import they were looking forward to the tournament stretching from Friday 20th till Monday 23rd February.

Read more: Big Smiles on Pre-teen Girls

From 28th to 31st August Greenlandic Days were held in Aalborg’s Karolinelund with food samples and entertainment for adults and children.

Arctic Group had lined up with kaffemik for all and a drawing competition for the small ones.

Read the article from NORDJYSKE here.

A new coffee is being introduced on the market in Greenland these days. Kaffigooq is the name of the coffee, which is not only being enjoyed by adults, but is also being for the good of children.
A cooperation between Arctic Import and the Association Greenlandic Children means that it is possible to contribute to centres for Greenlandic children and young people.

Read more: Kaffigooq – The Coffee to Be Enjoyed for the Sake of the Children ...

Brev fra Red Barnet

Vi har med glæde modtaget jeres jubilæumsdonation til Red Barnets arbejde i Grønland på: kr. 15.000.
Denne donation er af uvurderlig betydning for de børn, Red Barnet hjælper. Tusind tak.

Med udgangspunkt i FN´s Børnekonvention kæmper Red Barnet for børns rettigheder. Børn har ret til leg, uddannelse, sundhed og indflydelse på deres eget liv.

Read more: Stor tak fra Red Barnet

Grønlandsposten 09-10-03
By Christian Schultz-Lorentzen

Arctic Import marks its 25th anniversary with support to children in Alluitsup Paa.

Read more: Present of Money to Centre for Children and Young People

At Arctic Import’s reception in Nuuk recently 70,000 Dkr. were given away to work with children and young people.

Read more: Money Rain!!

By Poul Krarup
 
Arctic Import marks anniversary by collecting money to charitable purposes in Greenland.

After 25 years’ trade with the society in Greenland the company Arctic Import uses the anniversary to reciprocate for the confidence. "We want to say thank you to the society in Greenland”, says Mr Gunnar Laursen, manager.

Read more: Celebrates 25 Years’ Trade by Saying Thank You

Nordjyske Stiftstidende 2003

Around 50,000 Dkr. was the amount more than 300 guests brought along, when Arctic Import in Nørresundby celebrated its 25th anniversary with a reception at Tagholm 12.

For the company celebrating its anniversary had wished for presents of money which then is to be donated to charitable purposes in Greenland. For which purpose will only be revealed when Arctic Import later this month holds an equivalent anniversary reception in Nuuk.

Read more: Celebrated 25 Years of Trading with Greenland

By Henrik Skovrider

When the customers are in Greenland or in the Faroes there are many factors to consider.

Safety in deliveries is the Alfa and Omega for Arctic Import. Because if it happens that the trade and service company in Nørresundby sends off the wrong goods, it can have major consequences to the customers, who all are in Greenland and in the Faroe Islands.

Originally it all started in 1978 with special deliveries to tradesmen in Greenland. Two employees from the former Lindholm Trælasthandel – Mr Ole Nielsen and Mr Poul Jørgen Nielsen – established a firm in Nuuk at the end of the 1970ies delivering products and solutions which the tradesmen had difficulty in getting anywhere else.

Read more: Deliveries Must Never Fail