Flying Tiger Copenhagen

In 1988, Lennart Lajboschitz and his wife Suzanne opened their first store, Zebra, in Copenhagen. The store sold surplus goods, umbrellas, and other accessories. In 1995, Lajboschitz opened the first Tiger storefront in Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. In 2014, Tiger Stores Ireland won Company of the Year and Best Small Company at the Retail Excellence Ireland awards. In January 2015, the company appointed former The Body Shop director Xavier Vidal as its new chief executive officer. In 2016, the company officially changed its name worldwide to Flying Tiger Copenhagen; it has previously used other names due to the name "Tiger" not being allowed in all markets. In 2021, the company was sold by its founder, Lajboschitz, and EQT Partners to Treville, a Danish investment firm. That year, Flying Tiger also began selling their products online. Before June 2016, the brand operated as Tiger (or Tiger Copenhagen) in most markets, and as TGR in Sweden and Norway. == Markets ==

Flying Tiger Copenhagen stores can be found worldwide, with a European core network owned and operated at Group level. Most markets outside Europe are franchise partnerships. , London, EnglandAfter its initial opening and operation across the Kingdom of Denmark, Tiger expanded abroad to Iceland in 2001. In 2005, the company opened its first shop in Britain, in Basingstoke, later followed by other parts in the United Kingdom. They no longer operate in Northern Ireland as of 2021 due to poor sales. In 2008, Tiger also opened up its first stores in Spain (Madrid), the Netherlands (Arnhem) and Sweden (Malmö). In 2011, the company opened its first shop in Italy, in Turin, with Italy now the chain's largest market globally. It also opened in a number of other countries hereafter. in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. , Italy 2012 marked the chain's expansion to markets outside of Europe with the opening of a Tiger store in Japan. The company opened its first store in the United States in New York City in May 2015, a 5,000-square-foot/152 mq store in Manhattan's Flatiron District. In November 2018, the company announced the opening of four shops in Massachusetts and planned to open 20 more locations in New England in the next few years. The chain did not open across the border in Canada, but Flying Tiger have signalled plans to launch a store there too. In 2022, Flying Tiger Copenhagen opened its first store in the United Arab Emirates at the Dubai Hills Mall and also its first in Saudi Arabia the same year. The chain expanded in Asia-Pacific markets from 2023, with openings in Indonesia and the Philippines, followed by Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. In 2024, Flying Tiger opened its first store in Turkey, in the Kanyon Shopping Mall of Istanbul, and since then rapidly expanded in the country. In January 2026, Flying Tiger Copenhagen shut down all their stores in Malta, exiting the Maltese market entirely, due to structural market reasons rather than low sales. ==References==