Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV (Ahold Delhaize) is an international retailing group that offers a wide range of perishable and non-perishable food and non-food products. The company’s product portfolio includes vegetables, fruits, drugs, groceries, wine and liquor, meat, baby products, and beauty and health care products. It serves customers through various store formats, including cash and carry, supermarkets, convenience stores, online, hypermarkets, drugstores, wine and liquor stores and compact hypermarkets. The company operates stores under the brand names Food Lion, Hannaford, Stop & Shop, Giant, Martin’s, Albert Heijn, Tempo, Etos, and Delhaize. It has business operations spanning across the US and Europe. At the end of 2021, Ahold Delhaize brands operated a total of 7,452 stores. These include 71 stores acquired from Southeastern Grocers in the U.S. and 38 stores acquired from DEEN in the Netherlands. It opened a net total of 315 stores globally as a result of its acquisitions. Ahold Delhaize is headquartered in Zaandam, North Holland, the Netherlands.
By the end of FY2021, Ahold Delhaize operated additional 315 stores advancing the store count to 7,452 stores globally. Of the 7,452 stores (including stores operated by franchisees) in FY2021, the company had 2,048 stores in the US and 5,404 stores in Europe. In FY2021, the company operated a total of 5,553 company-owned stores and 1,899 franchisee stores.
In FY2016, the company added 3,044 stores as a result of the merger between Ahold and Delhaize Group forming Ahold Delhaize which was completed on July 23, 2016. With this merger, Ahold Delhaize made its presence felt in 11 countries with 21 local brands and employed nearly 370,000 associates in over 6,500 grocery and specialty stores by the end of FY2016.
The Group’s net sales for FY2021 were EUR75.6 million as compared to EUR74.7 million in FY2020. At constant exchange rates, net sales were up by EUR2,382 million or 3.3%. This was driven by gasoline sales which increased by 39.6%, driven by a reduction in pandemic measures during the year leading to an increase in gasoline volumes and prices worldwide. Sales growth continued to be elevated to 40% due to demand related to COVID-19, yet was also fueled by improvements in its brand’s business models, including online, and the acquisition of FreshDirect, 71 stores from Southeastern Grocers at Food Lion, and 38 stores from DEEN in the Netherlands.
Net consumer online sales increased by 38.2% as a result of the continued trend of increased online shopping by consumers after COVID-19. With the launch of online shopping at Albert in the Czech Republic, all its brands had online operations by the end of FY2021.
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