Dutch department store chain HEMA will open a new shop in the Paris Gare du Nord railway station on 9 March. This will be the ninth store HEMA has opened in France since 2009.

With a floor space of just 70 square meters, this will be the smallest store in the chain and the company’s first shop in a French train station. A second station HEMA will soon follow: on 21 March the company plans to open a shop in the Gare Saint Lazare (also in Paris).

The shops at Gare du Nord and Gare St Lazare will offer a product range geared to the needs of train travellers, from stockings and smoked sausage to the ever-popular Dutch stroopwafels (a type of Dutch cookie).

HEMA is a quintessentially Dutch store, founded in Amsterdam in 1926,. It currently forms part of the Lion Capital investment company. The chain has more than 600 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.

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