Ahold
| Koninklijke Ahold
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| legal form | NV |
| ISIN | NL0010672325 |
| founding | May 27, 1887 |
| Seat |
Amsterdam , Netherlands
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| management | Frans Muller (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 380,000 (2019). |
| sales | 66.26 billion euros (2019) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.ahold.com |
The Koninklijke Ahold NV (German: Royal Ahold) is a Dutch company based in Amsterdam . It is one of the world's largest supermarket chain operators and employed 380,000 people in 2019.
history
The origin of the group goes back to a grocery store founded by Albert Heijn in Oostzaan on May 27, 1887 . Today Ahold is not only active in the Netherlands but also in Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA.
Under the leadership of the founder's grandchildren Albert and Gerrit Jan Heijn , the company continued to have a significant impact on food retailing in the Netherlands for the next four decades. It was one of the pioneers in the introduction of self-service markets. In addition, the company has developed its own brands and expanded the range to include non-food items. It influenced the culinary development of the country, popularized products such as wine, sherry and kiwi fruit, contributed to the introduction of the refrigerator in Dutch households and introduced consumers to convenience products such as ready meals and frozen pizza.
During this time, "Albert Heijn" rose to become the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands and expanded into liquor stores as well as health and beauty care in the 1970s. In 1973 the holding changed its name to "Ahold", the abbreviation for "Albert Heijn Holding".
International expansion
In the mid-1970s, the company began to expand internationally by acquiring companies in Spain and the United States. With a new leadership team that was not comprised of members of the Heijn family for the first time, the company accelerated growth through acquisitions in Latin America, Central Europe and Asia in the second half of the 1990s.
Ahold NV received the designation "Royal" from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in 1987, as an award for a company that had been operated "honorably" for 100 years. In the same year Gerrit Jan Heijn, Ahold Executive and the only brother of Albert Heijn, was kidnapped and murdered.
Albert supermarkets have been in operation in the Czech Republic since 1991 (previously under the name Mana ).
In November 1998 Ahold took over the Krakow and Tychy stores in Poland from Allkauf .
In 2003 Ahold got into the talk due to a balance sheet scandal, when irregularities in the books for 2001 and 2002 became known at the subsidiary US Foodservice and the Argentine subsidiary Disco. The scandal led to the resignation of CEO van der Hoeven, who was replaced by former IKEA manager Anders Moberg . As part of the reorganization, Ahold sold his US supermarket daughters BI-LO and Bruno's to the financial investor Lone Star in 2004 ; both companies had to file for bankruptcy in 2009.
In May 2007 the group sold its US catering business US Foodservice for 5 billion euros to the associated companies Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR . In the previous year, Foodservice, with its 27,000 employees, had a turnover of 15 billion euros and thus contributed around a third to the income of the entire group. Also in 2007, Anders Moberg resigned. He was succeeded by the Briton John Rishton, who joined Rolls-Royce as CEO in 2011. Dick Boer took over as CEO in 2011.
Merger with Delhaize
In June 2015 Ahold and the Belgian grocer Delhaize Group announced their intention to merge. On January 15, 2016, the project was officially notified to the Brussels Commercial Court. The merger agreement was signed on July 23, 2016 after approval by the shareholders and competition authorities. Ahold holds 61% of the shares in the parent company of the merged groups, Ahold Delhaize , based in the Netherlands.
Sales lines
United States
- Giant Carlisle (1981)
- Giant Landover (1998)
- Martin’s (daughter of Giant-Carlisle)
- Peapod (2000)
- Stop & Shop (1995)
Europe
- Albert (1991)
- Albert Heijn
- albert.nl
- bol.com (acquired in 2012)
- Etos (1973)
- Gall & Gall
- Hypernova (2001, in Slovakia)
- ICA (joint venture with Hakon Invest AB since 2000)
- Pingo Doce , second largest supermarket chain in Portugal, founded in 1980 by Jerónimo Martins , since 1992 operated by JMR, a joint venture in which Ahold holds 49%.
Web links
- ahold.com - Int. Website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2019 (PDF) Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
- ^ The big league / life and work. (No longer available online.) Www.ahold.com, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 7, 2015 .
- ↑ our history. (No longer available online.) Www.ahold.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2015 ; accessed on May 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ manager-magazin.de: Ahold voluntarily pays millions from September 30, 2004 [1]
- ↑ manager-magazin.de: The renovator resigns from April 27, 2007 [2]
- ↑ wiwo.de: Ahold suffers from insolvent ex-daughters from May 28, 2009 [3]
- ^ FAZ from October 1, 2010: Ahold boss changes to Rolls-Royce
- ↑ Ahold and Delhaize confirm JV filing , fruitnet.com, January 15, 2016
- ^ Supermarket chains Ahold and Delhaize merge. In: nzz.ch. July 24, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 .
