Matas (drug store)

Matas A/S

Company type	Publicly traded Aktieselskab
Traded as	Nasdaq Copenhagen: MATAS
Genre	Drug store chain
Founded	1949
Headquarters	Allerød , Denmark
Products	pharmaceuticals, parfume, cosmetics
Revenue	kr 4.3 billion
Net income	364,500,000 Danish krone
Total assets	5,315,300,000 Danish krone (2016)
Number of employees	~2500
Website	www.matas.dk, www.matas.se, www.matas.no

Matas is a Danish business, founded in 1949, that operates a chain of drug stores across Denmark. The store's motto is "Good Advice Makes the Difference". The chain consists of 263 stores, employs approximately 2,500 people and has an annual revenue of approximately 4.3 billion kr (About US$630 million).^[1] Matas also sells personal hygiene products and other home goods. The main types of merchandise sold in stores are make-up products and cosmetics, such as hair colouring, lipsticks and rouge. In addition, most, if not all, Matas shops have a chemical department, where one can find both household chemicals and more rare and exotic chemicals for home chemists, in accordance to the drysalter roots of the store. Other things sold by the retailer include: vitamin supplements, herbal remedies (such as ginseng extracts), and liquorice root.