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In 1998, owner SHV Holdings sold the Makro stores in Europe to German partner Metro AG. [5] The sale, announced on 29 October 1997, [6] was approved by the supervisory board of Metro AG on 17 December 1997. [7] Makro who opened first store in the Philippines in 1996 through a joint-venture with SM Prime Holdings and Ayala Group.
Under the sole leadership of Otto Beisheim, a rapid expansion of the Metro stores into the greater German and European area began in 1967 with the opening of the Metro stores in Godorf near Cologne, Hamburg, Munich and, after a connection with the Dutch company SHV Holdings, the first C&C wholesale store (brand: Makro) in the Netherlands, and ...
SHV originated in 1896 from a merger of a number of large coal mining companies. In 1968, the first Makro store opened in Amsterdam and expanded to other European countries, the Americas, and Asia. In 1971, the first Makro store outside Europe opened in South Africa. In the 1970s and 1980s Makro expanded to the Americas and Asia.
Wertkauf – first store opened in 1958 in Karlsruhe, its Munich store was the largest hypermarket in Europe when it opened in 1968; [47] all stores were taken over by Wal-Mart in 1997 Greece Main article: List of supermarket chains in Greece
As of 2023, this is a list of supermarket chains, past and present, which operate or have branches in more than one country, whether under the parent corporation's name or another name.
Jawa (was a supermarket chain, all its stores were taken over in 1995 to become Match supermarkets [citation needed]) Profi (was a discount store owned by Louis Delhaize Group, rebranded to Smatch supermarket) Unic (rebranded to Super GB and later Carrefour GB
This is a list of supermarket chains in Europe. The international brands with the most supermarkets are Carrefour , Coopérative U , Auchan and SPAR . Albania
Galeries Lafayette - department store; France Geoffrey's Toy Box - toys, video games, videos (Revival of Toys R Us ) Harvey Norman - furniture, housewares, electronics; Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Slovenia and Croatia