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Ahold, originally named Albert Heijn N.V., started in 1887 when Albert Heijn bought the general store of his father in the Dutch town of Oostzaan. He gave the store his name and transformed it into a modern specialized grocery together with his wife, Neeltje Heijn. After a few years, he owned a chain of Dutch stores.
Ahold NV was founded on August 27, 1973 and Albert Heijn became part of it. The new construction made it easier for Albert Heijn's new parent company to enter the foreign market. In October of the same year, Etos was acquired, a number of stores were converted into Albert Heijn and the rest continued as a drugstore within Ahold. [9]
Albert Heijn became the largest grocery chain in the Netherlands during this time, and expanded into liquor stores and health and beauty care stores in the 1970s. In 1973, the holding company Albert Heijn changed its name to "Ahold", an abbreviation of A lbert H eijn H old ing".
This consolidation SAM was designed to "reduce the burden on those seeking to do business with the government." [1] In addition to eliminating redundancies and streamlining processes, SAM provides a single help desk to resolve issues with any of the databases. [2] The systems combined into SAM are listed below, grouped by functional area.
The first Albert Heijn store still exists as a Museum at Zaanse Schans near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Heijn handed over the management of the company in 1920, to his sons Jan Heijn and Gerrit Heijn, and his son-in-law Johan Hille. Later, his grandchildren Albert Jr. and Gerrit Jan Heijn would further expand the family business.
A year later, on July 10, 2008, Royal Ahold announced that Sander van der Laan, at the time the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Merchandising for Albert Heijn (a Dutch supermarket chain owned by Ahold), had been appointed president and CEO of Giant-Carlisle, succeeding Carl Schlicker who had been appointed president and CEO of Stop ...
Delhaize Group SA (French pronunciation:, Dutch pronunciation: [də'leːzə]) was a Belgian multinational retail company headquartered in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, [2] and operated in seven countries and on three continents.
Albert Heijn To Go – owned by Stationsfoodstore, a franchiser of Albert Heijn (in addition to normal Albert Heijn supermarkets elsewhere) Jumbo City - can be found within city centers and some train stations. SPAR (EuroSpar, SuperSpar) – large chain throughout Europe