Retail
- Ahold
Ahold is an international group of food retail and food service companies that operate under their own brand names. Ahold companies are located wherever and whenever today's customer desires the highest quality food products, service and convenience.
Ahold is a leading food retailer in the USA. We operate six retail companies: Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover, Giant-Carlisle, Tops, BI-LO and Bruno's, as well as Peapod, our e-commerce retail company. Our food service business is operated by U.S. Foodservice and its subsidiaries, supplying food and related products to restaurants, hotels, health care institutions, government facilities, universities, sports stadiums and caterers.
In Europe, we run major retail trade operations through our subsidiaries in The Netherlands (Albert Heijn, Schuitema, Etos, Gall & Gall), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Spain and Portugal. Ahold has a 50% partnership interest in ICA, which owns the ICA Group, an integrated food retail and wholesale group, servicing neighborhood stores, supermarkets, superstores, hypermarkets and discount stores in Scandinavia.
Since 1887, we have made it our business to understand customer needs. Our ongoing drive and ambition is to meet these needs with solutions that pleasantly surprise our customers and make each shopping trip exceptional. We work hard to ensure that our store experience is as convenient as possible: easy in, easy shop and easy out.
We differentiate our offering through cutting edge products and technological innovation. Supplying our customers with the freshest food is what we're about.
The focus on Ahold's retail and foodservice businesses is to provide the ultimate in solutions to our millions of customers and institutional accounts every day.
We are focused on creating and retaining customers.
Industry: Retail
2003 Consolidated Net Sales: 6.1 billion (US$68.6 billion)
No. of employees (2003): 257,140
Headquarters: Zaandam (Holland) and Boston (USA)
Year Established: 1887
Website: http://www.ahold.com
Go to website: http://www.ahold.com
