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Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.
Company type Public (N.V.)
Euronext Amsterdam:  AD
AEX component
ISIN NL0011794037
Industry retail
Predecessors
Founded25 July 2016
Headquarters Zaandam ,
Netherlands
Number of locations
7,910 (2024)
Key people
  • Frans Muller (President and CEO)
  • Jerry W Fleeman (CEO Ahold Delhaize USA)
  • Wouter Kolk (CEO Ahold Delhaize Europe and Indonesia)
  • Jolanda Poots-Bijl (CFO) [1]
RevenueIncrease2.svg €87 billion (2022) [2]
Increase2.svg €2.5 billion (2022) [3]
Number of employees
414,000 [4]
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. (in Dutch literally "Royal Ahold Delhaize"), commonly known as Ahold Delhaize, [5] is a Dutch-Belgian multinational retail and wholesale holding company. Its name comes from the 2016 merger of two companies: Ahold (Dutch) and Delhaize Group (Belgian), which both have origins in the 1800s. Its business format includes supermarkets, convenience stores, hypermarkets, online grocery, online non-food, drugstores, and liquor stores. Its 16 local brands employ 402,000 people at 7,716 stores across nine countries. [6] [7] The United States is where two-thirds of the holding company's revenue is generated. [8]

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Ahold Delhaize's world headquarters is in Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam. [9] Other countries with Ahold Delhaize businesses include the Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania, Serbia, and the United States. It also participates in joint ventures in Indonesia and Portugal. [10] [11]

Ahold Delhaize shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels (ticker: AD). [12] Ahold's CEO, Dick Boer, became the CEO of Ahold Delhaize until his retirement in 2018, and Frans Muller, the former CEO of Delhaize Group, succeeded Dick Boer, after previously having served under Dick Boer's supervision, as the deputy CEO, chief integration officer and acting chief operations officer (ad interim) of Delhaize America. [13] [14]

Operating more than 2,000 stores of multiple brands across 23 states, Ahold Delhaize is among the largest food and consumables retailers in the United States via its regional subsidiaries. [15]

History

Ahold Delhaize was formed in July 2016 from the merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group. [16] [17] Delhaize Group dates back to 1867, when the Delhaize brothers opened a shop in Charleroi, Belgium. Ahold, originally named Albert Heijn N.V., started in 1887 when Albert Heijn bought the general store of his father in the Dutch town of Oostzaan. He gave the store his name and transformed it into a modern specialized grocery together with his wife, Neeltje Heijn. After a few years, he owned a chain of Dutch stores.

In 2018, the company experienced significant growth in the United States (Food Lion), the Netherlands, and online. [18] Growth in Belgium has been minimal. [18]

With around 380,000 employees in almost 7,000 stores, the company achieved a turnover of 66 billion euros in 2019. [19]

Beginning in June 2020, Ahold Delhaize implemented a partnership with Instacart to provide home delivery from more than 750 stores operated under the Hannaford, Food Lion, Giant Food, and Stop & Shop brands. [20] The company further expanded in the United States with the acquisition of a majority stake in FreshDirect, an online grocer. As of 2021, Ahold Delhaize has plans to establish Ship2Me, an online marketplace featuring food and merchandise items, in the second half of the year. [21]

In November 2023, Ahold Delhaize sold FreshDirect to Turkish company Getir. [22] Part of the reason for the sale was so that Ahold Delhaize, specifically Ahold Delhaize USA, could focus more on the "omnichannel experience" and to strengthen its presence in supermarkets and online.

As of 2023, Ahold Delhaize announced the acquisition of Romanian retailer Profi for approximately €1.3 billion from Mid Europa Partners. [23]

Brands and stores

CountryBrandNumber of stores
Netherlands Albert Heijn 1268
Etos 523
Gall & Gall628
Belgium Albert Heijn 80
Delhaize 818
Czech Republic Albert 340
Greece Alfa-Beta 585
ENA14
IndonesiaSuper Indo180
Romania Mega Image 977
Profi 1808
Serbia Maxi (Delhaize Serbia) 529
United States Food Lion 1108
The Giant Company 193
Giant Food 165
Hannaford 187
Stop & Shop 395

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