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Colruyt Group is a Belgian family-owned retail corporation that is managing the Colruyt supermarkets and other subsidiaries such as OKay, Bio-Planet, DATS 24, DreamLand, DreamBaby, and more. Founded in 1928 by Franz Colruyt, the group today is most significantly known for its eponymous discount supermarket chain, which is one of the major ...
Colruyt (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔlˈrœyt]) is a Belgian supermarket chain with the headquarters in Halle, Belgium. Colruyt carries the surname of the founder of the family business, the Colruyt family still owns the company.
The Colruyt family is a Belgian noble family, belonging to the wealthiest noble houses of Belgium. In three generation they managed to climb to the top of the Belgian ...
Colruyt may refer to: Colruyt Group, a Belgian family-owned retail corporation; Colruyt (supermarket), a Belgian supermarket chain; Colruyt family, a Belgian noble family
As of 2011, in Belgium three major groups form more than two thirds of the market: Colruyt group 27%, Delhaize 22.5% and Carrefour 22%. Then there are Aldi 11%, Lidl 5.6% and Makro 4.5%. [ 1 ]
Franz Colruyt also starts bottling wine and roasting coffee. The family business grows into a food wholesaler. In 1950, Franz Colruyt founds the "Etablissementen Franz Colruyt nv" with a capital of 5 million francs (€125,000). His brothers Henri and Jules are also part of the business.
The first Match supermarket opened in 1974 in a shopping center in Helfent, which is in the municipality of Bertrange. [13] In 2001, the group's other 14 Profi discount supermarkets were taken under the management of Match [8] and later rebranded as Smatch still being operated by SA Profilux company.
When Colruyt took over the company from his father Franz in 1958, the company was a dry food wholesaler. As it became more expensive to deliver small-volume orders to smaller stores, he opened the first Cash & Carry (briefly called 'Cash') in Hall in 1964: a self-service formula for independent shop keepers.