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Mirage Retail Group (formerly Blokker Holding) is a Dutch company that owns several chains of stores. [ 1 ] Blokker Holding is active in twelve countries and in 2010 all the chains combined had 2825 stores.
In 2017, Intertoys had approximately 500 stores, of which around 450 were located in the Netherlands. More than 100 of these were franchise stores and 15 were XL megastores. 11 stores were operated in Belgium and 29 in Germany. In February 2019, Intertoys applied for an automatic stay. [5] On 21 February the company declared bankruptcy. [6]
This is a list of supermarket chains in Belgium. 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]
Efforts to reverse this trend included store renovations and modernization. The American actress Sarah Jessica Parker was featured in 2016 television campaign to refresh Blokker’s image. Additionally, store closures were implemented; in Belgium, 69 of 190 stores closed, and 50 stores shut down in the Netherlands. [5]
In 2008 Bart Smit had 189 stores in the Netherlands, 51 in Belgium (of which 40 in Flanders and 11 in Wallonia) and one in Luxembourg. In 2017, Blokker Holding started converting all Bart Smit stores in the Netherlands to Intertoys stores. [4] This took longer than expected as some stores were too close to existing Intertoys branches.
Cora is a chain of hypermarkets owned by Louis Delhaize Group in France, Belgium and the French overseas territory of Mayotte. Cora was founded in 1974 by the supermarket holding Louis Delhaize Group after taking over three Carrefour hypermarkets located in Belgium. [1]
GIB Group (Grand Bazar Innovation Bon Marché) was a Belgian conglomerate, consisting of various retail and restaurant chains that existed until 2002. GIB Group owned GB (Grand Bazar) super/hypermarkets, Brico (home improvement/DIY), Inno (department store), Quick restaurants (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Lunch Garden self-service restaurants, Auto 5 car wash/service chain, Nopri ...
Delhaize entered the U.S. market through its acquisition of Food Town Stores in 1983, renaming it Food Lion due to name conflict with other stores, and expanding from 22 stores to 226. [5] In 1985, it became a franchisee for Cub Foods and opened the first of many stores in the Atlanta area and in 1996, acquired Kash n' Karry, a Florida grocery ...