Delhaize Group

Delhaize Group is a food retailer headquartered in Belgium which operates in eight countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets.

History

Delhaize Group was founded in Belgium in 1867.

As of 31 December 2006, Delhaize Group had a sales network (which includes directly operated, franchised, and affiliated stores) of 2,705 stores and employed approximately 140,000 people. Store formats are primarily supermarkets, which represent 85% of Delhaize Group's sales network. Delhaize Group's sales network also includes other store formats such as neighborhood stores, convenience stores, and specialty stores.

In addition to food retailing, which accounted for approximately 95% of Delhaize Group's sales in 2005, Delhaize Group also engages in food wholesaling to stores in its sales network and in nonfood retailing of products such as pet products and health and beauty products.

Delhaize Group recorded sales of €19.225 billion in 2006 and net income of €351.9 million. Delhaize Group's operations are located primarily in the United States (Food Lion LLC, Hannaford Bros. Co., and Sweetbay Supermarket) and Belgium. Other operations are located in Germany, Greece, Romania, and Indonesia.

In 2007, the company left the Czech market and sold all of its 97 supermarkets to Billa. Delhaize had operated in the Czech Republic under the Delvita brand since 1991. Delhaize has expanded into Germany with 4 locations in the State of Northrhine-Westphalia As of 2008, there are 2 locations in Aachen and 2 locations in Cologne (downtown Cologne and Cologne-Braunsfeld).

Sales divisions

Operating locations have included:

Europe

• Delhaize
• AD Delhaize
• Proxy Delhaize
• Shop'n Go
• City Delhaize
• Tom&Co
• Caddyhome

Greece

• Alfa-Vita Vassilopoulos

Romania

• Mega Image

Slovakia (until 2005)

Czech Republic (until 2007)

Germany (since 2003)

• Delhaize
• Delhaize Germany

North America

Operates as Delhaize America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delhaize Group:

• Food Lion LLC
• Food Lion
• Bloom
• Bottom Dollar Food
• Harveys Supermarkets
• Hannaford Bros. Co.
• Sweetbay Supermarkets

Asia

• Super INDO

See also

• European Retail Round Table

References