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Fortenova initially owned 89.11% of Mercator, increasing its stake to 90.005% after the general meeting held in September 2021. [4] [5] Fortenova became the sole owner of Mercator on 1 April 2022, after forcing out minority shareholders. Then, in mid-April, the General Assembly approved the delisting of the company's shares from the stock exchange.
The head office and distribution center are located in Nijkerk. In 2015, Boni acquired three C1000 stores, and in 2018 opened a new branch in Heerde, which was the first to experiment with a new store formula. The company currently has around 43 stores, mainly located in the center, west, and north of the country, near the A28 freeway. Boon's Markt
Mercator is a steel-hulled barquentine built in 1932 as a training ship for the Belgian merchant fleet. She was named after Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), a Belgian cartographer . She was designed by G.L. Watson & Co. and built in Leith , Scotland [ 2 ] and launched in 1932.
Schijndel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɛindəl] ⓘ) is a town and former municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.Schijndel is located approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) southeast of 's-Hertogenbosch.
A habitation from the Michelsberg culture (4400–3500 BC) was excavated at the Schelsberg, near Heerlen, in 1997.Archeological finds from this period are rare in the Netherlands, and this site is unique among those in the country, as it is the first excavated site with ditches and earth walls (earthworks).
Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Holstein – 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician. He was born in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany and educated at Rostock and Leyden after which he lived from 1642 to 1648 in the Netherlands .
Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]