On July 11, a new top! Ulbroka store opened its doors at 7 Institūta Street in Ulbroka, accompanied by live music and various activities for store visitors. This modern shopping center combines convenient shopping, sustainable architecture, and local entrepreneurship, offering residents of Ulbroka and the surrounding area a diverse shopping experience. The project’s investment amounts to nearly 4 million euros and provides more than 20 new jobs. This is already the seventh new top! store opened in 2025, highlighting the network’s commitment to developing modern and customer-friendly shopping locations.
The new top! Ulbroka store features a 665 m² spacious sales area, designed with customer convenience and environmental sustainability in mind. The store offers a wide assortment of food and non-food products – including locally produced goods, top! private label items, and a broad selection of branded products. Customers can also enjoy premium Kalve coffee, roasted in Latvia, available for takeaway, as well as top!’s pride – Vietējais top! ready-made products, freshly baked pastries made on-site using special recipes, and culinary dishes that ensure there's always something warm or sweet available – just like homemade. Everything essential is offered to make everyday shopping a pleasant moment for yourself.
To ensure a convenient, fast, and modern shopping experience, a comfortable parking lot has been built next to the store. For easy payments, both traditional checkout counters and two self-service checkouts are available. Customers can also enjoy all the benefits of the top! loyalty program and take advantage of special daily offers.
Visitors can already enjoy a modern, well-organized, and functional shopping environment, designed with everyday customer needs in mind. By the end of the year, top! Ulbroka will become a fully developed shopping center. In addition to the top! grocery store, it will also house a Pepco store offering household goods and clothing, as well as a Hesburger fast-food restaurant — providing visitors with everything they need in one convenient location.
“With pride, today we open the doors to the newly built top! Ulbroka store — exactly as we envisioned it during four years of careful planning together with our design and construction teams,” says company owner Dace Broka. “Our goal was to create a modern, sustainable, and family-friendly shopping environment that is accessible to all, reflects the city’s rapid development, and complements Ulbroka’s distinctive architecture. We’ve also paid special attention to the product selection to ensure that customers can find everything they need in one place.”
With a long-term vision for the development of the top! store network, the property and land for the new store were acquired as early as 2021. Over the following years, the project underwent planning, approval processes, and faced many other challenges. Finally, in 2024, construction began — and today, with pride, we present the new store to our customers for their evaluation! Throughout the planning and execution of the project, great care was taken with every detail — not only to offer a wide and high-quality product selection but also to ensure that the building integrates harmoniously into Ulbroka’s modern and family-friendly environment. Considering the area's growing focus on accessibility and the development of public service infrastructure, the surrounding environment has also been enhanced, with modern architectural solutions incorporated into the design.
“This project is not just about the building – it’s about the people. About the team that has put in tremendous effort, about the employees who serve customers every day with responsibility and warmth, and, of course, about the residents of Ulbroka who trust us. This is already the seventh new top! store we have opened this year, and every time we do so with one goal in mind – to make people feel welcome, to make shopping enjoyable, and to ensure that our offerings — both in selection and pricing — meet their needs,” explains Ilze Priedīte, board member and marketing director of the top! store network.
The developer of the new store project is SIA “Mārksmens”, a member of the top! store network with 100% Latvian capital, which has invested nearly 4 million euros in the project. Construction was carried out by the local company SIA “Ekoteh Būve”, while the architecture and environmental design were developed by SIA “3D Birojs”. For the interior design, we collaborated with our long-term partner Lüning Shop Fitting. Sustainable materials and solutions were used in the building’s construction to ensure energy efficiency, aesthetics, and long-term functionality.
About the project implementer SIA Mārksmens:
SIA Mārksmens was founded in 1997 and is a 100% locally owned Latvian company that has proven itself as a reliable partner by ensuring honest business practices, quality, and customer satisfaction, while continuously introducing innovations to meet changing consumer needs. The company operates 36 top! stores across various cities in Latvia. One of the brand’s keys to success is its local origin and determination, as well as the convenient location of its stores along customers’ routes and a tailored product assortment that includes a large share of locally produced goods. SIA Mārksmens also offers its own manufactured products – the company operates a certified meat and culinary production facility in Dobele. Co-owner Dace Broka has been recognized among Latvia’s most influential businesswomen due to her active involvement in business development. Overall, the company employs and provides a stable working environment for more than 400 employees.
About the top! store network:
The top! store network is the largest retail chain owned by Latvian entrepreneurs and the third largest retail store network in Latvia. Under the top! brand, there are currently 216 grocery stores in Latvia, owned by 12 local companies. Altogether, the network provides over 4,000 jobs, supporting local producers and suppliers throughout Latvia.
Information prepared by:
Ilze Priedīte
Marketing Director and Board Member of the top! store network
pr@toppartika.lv