Alidis

ALIDIS / Agenor is the first international purchasing cooperation between independent European retail chains.

The French group of companies "ITM Entreprises SA" ( umbrella brand " Les Mousquetaires ", best-known sales line Intermarché ), the Spanish " Grupo Eroski " and (since April 2005) the German Edeka each have a one-third stake in ALIDIS / Agenor . The management is held alternately by the heads of the companies involved.

The dealer alliance, which was founded in 2002 against the background of increasing concentration processes on the manufacturer side, represents a retail turnover of the participating groups of companies totaling 75 billion euros (as of 2005). This makes it number four, behind the EMD purchasing alliances (119 billion, market share 11.5%; members: Markant AG , Kaufland and others) and Coopernic (96.9 billion, MA 9.3%; members E.Leclerc , Conad , Rewe Group , Coop Switzerland , Colruyt ), as well as the largest European retail chain Carrefour (78.8 billion, MA 7.6%), and before AMS (69.6 billion, MA 6.7%; umbrella brand "Euro Shopper", Members: Ahold , ICA , Kesko , Rimi Baltic , Dansk Supermarked , Morrisons , Superquinn , Hagar , Elomas , Jeronimo Martins & Filhos , Caprabo ) (figures as of 2005/2006).

In Alidis / Agenor on-top conditions for are trademarks and net / net cost prices negotiated. It thus serves the competitive marketing of branded goods and private labels in the lowest price range. It also offers small and medium-sized manufacturers access to new sales markets and support with product innovations and the implementation of advertising campaigns.

Agenor

Agenor AG, founded in 1997 in Flums and based in Meyrin (Switzerland), was created as central purchasing for ITM with Spar, which is now part of Edeka . It represents around 7,500 outlets in Europe. Founding members: Intermarché (France), Intermarché (Portugal), ITM Ecomarché (Belgium), ITM Iberica / centromarket (Spain), ITM Polska Intermarché (Poland), SPAR AG (Germany). In 1999 Interex (Bosnia-Herzegovina) was added. The CDE (Romania) is also one of them. Outlets in Italy were also members until 2002. (As of November 2004).

ALIDIS

ALIDIS emerged from the connection between Agenor, founded by ITM, and Grupo Eroski . ALIDIS is the abbreviation for " Al liance I nternational de Dis tributeurs SA" (International retailer Allianz AG). ALIDIS, founded in 2003, is based in Geneva (Switzerland). The share capital currently amounts to 18.09 million Swiss francs .