Bingo (supermarket)

Bingo

Company type	LLC
Industry	Retail
Founded	1993;32 years ago (1993)
Founder	Senad Džambić
Headquarters	Bosanska poljana bb, Tuzla , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Number of locations	225 stores
Area served	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Key people	Ljiljana Kunosić, [1] CEO
Products	Grocery Restaurant General merchandise Convenience store Discount store Hypermarket Supermarket Wholesale/Distribution
Revenue	€1.115 billion (2024 [2] )
Net income	€74.65 million (2024 [3] )
Total equity	€505.49 million (2018 [4] )
Number of employees	8,108 [5]  (December 2023)
Subsidiaries	Interex BiH [6] Tuš trade d.o.o. BiH [6] Hekom d.o.o. Mostar Wilson d.o.o. Sarajevo Trgovina na veliko i malo d.o.o. Kalesija MIP Management d.o.o. Čitluk BINGO MIP d.o.o. Čitluk Majevica d.d. Srebrenik Kaletex d.o.o. Kalesija Kvin d.o.o. Tuzla Autosaobraćaj d.o.o.Tuzla Tuzla-remont d.d. Tuzla Transservis–trgovina d.o.o. Tuzla Eko život d.o.o. Tuzla [7] Duka & Bosna d.o.o. Brčko Novitet d.o.o. Bos.Petrovac
Website	bingotuzla.ba

Bingo (full name: Bingo import export Tuzla d.o.o.) is Bosnia's largest supermarket chain and the company with the highest revenue, profit, and number of employees in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ^[8] with its headquarters in Tuzla. ^[9]

The company had 8,108 employees across 225 stores, generating a revenue of 1.94 billion BAM, and profit of 158.3 million BAM in 2023. ^[10]

History

Bingo was established in 1993 by Bosnian businessman Senad Džambić in Tuzla in 1992. ^[11]

Džambić, the sixth child of a miner and an electrician by trade, had started some small-scale business in the 1980s: “Before the war, two brothers and I had some 120 beehives on a bus and could produce up to 30 tons of honey a year. In the nineties I worked in a mine, I also owned billiards, pinball machines and poker machines, since 1985 I have been doing that and a company was formed. Bingo comes from that time. Let's earn something, invest immediately". ^[12]

In 2010, Bingo received an EBRD loan to support energy efficiency - the first of many other loans from European development banks. ^[12]

In 2014, Bingo became the biggest domestic retail company in Bosnia and Herzegovina by acquiring companies Interex BiH and Tuš Trade BiH. ^[6] Turnover in 2014 was higher than 500 million BAM. ^[13]

In 2015, Bingo had 175 stores open in Bosnia and Herzegovina and more than 5,500 employees. ^[14] The same year, Džambić (with a revenue of 258.9 million euros) was ranked by Forbes as the second-richest man in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Izudin Ahmetlić, owner of the Hifa Group. ^[15]

After the collapse of Croatia's Agrokor holding, Džambić bought several of its subsidiary companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ^[12] He also bought Tuzla's Majevica snack factory. ^{[16] [15]}

In 2017, Bingo became the largest supermarket chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the split between Konzum and Mercator in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^{[ citation needed ]}

The same year, Džambić bought Tuzla's Dita factory, which had been self-managed by employees since the bankruptcy in 2014. ^[17]

In 2018, Džambić rescued the company Tuzlanski kiseljak d.o.o. which was owned by Pivara Tuzla. ^[17]

On 19 April 2024, Bingo opened its 225th store. ^[18]

See also

• List of companies of Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

1. "Vlasnik kompanije Bingo posjetio Općinu Maglaj". 26 December 2018.
2. https://www.biznisinfo.ba/prva-bh-firma-s-prihodima-od-preko-2-milijarde-km-nijednu-marku-nismo-iznijeli-iz-bih/
3. https://www.biznisinfo.ba/prva-bh-firma-s-prihodima-od-preko-2-milijarde-km-nijednu-marku-nismo-iznijeli-iz-bih/
4. "Top lista po ukupnim prihodima na nivou Federacije, za sve kompanije". fia.ba (in Bosnian). Finansijsko-informatička agencije BiH. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
5. https://www.biznisinfo.ba/bingo-je-neprkosnoveni-kralj-bh-privrede-nove-brojke-to-dokazuju/
6. "Bingo zvanično preuzeo 24 objekta Interexa i 709 radnika" (in Bosnian). www.freshpress.info. freshpress.info/klix.ba. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2016.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
7. "Uspješan biznismen Senad Džambić: Ovo je 11 firmi koje kontrolira vlasnik Binga" (in Bosnian). www.faktor.ba. www.faktor..ba. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
8. Fokus.ba (1 April 2024). "Objavljena lista 10 firmi u Federaciji BiH s najvećim prihodima, Bingo bez konkurencije". Fokus.ba (in Croatian). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
9. "Bingobih.ba". Najveći trgovački lanac u BiH (in Bosnian). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
10. Administrator-Main (1 April 2024). "Bingo u BiH uvjerljivo ima najveći prihod, dobit i broj zaposlenih". Pogled.ba (in Croatian). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
11. "Forbes: Vlasnik "Binga" Senad Džambić "težak" oko 450 miliona maraka!" (in Bosnian). www.tuzlalive.ba. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
12. "Senad Džambić: Propadaš kad se odvojiš od radnika". www.oslobodjenje.ba. 18 January 2019.
13. "Senad Džambić: Tajna uspjeha je da u BiH ulažem sve što zaradim!" (in Bosnian). www.avaz.ba. www.avaz.ba. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
14. "Najveći domaći trgovački lanac: Bingo 2015. godinu završio sa 5.500 zaposlenih" (in Bosnian). www.faktor.ba. www.faktor.ba. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
15. "N1". Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
16. "Made in BiH - Pronađite najbolje poslovne partnere iz Bosne i Hercegovine".
17. "Biznismen godine: Senad Džambić". vijesti.ba. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
18. "Bingo City Centar se otvara sutra na Ilidži: Evo šta nudi novi tržni centar u Sarajevu" (in Bosnian). 18 April 2024.

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