Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. (in

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literally "Royal Ahold Delhaize"), commonly known as Ahold Delhaize, is a Dutch multinational retail and wholesaling company. Its name comes from a merger between

Ahold Koninklijke Ahold N.V. was a Dutch multinational retail company based in Zaandam, Netherlands. It merged with Belgium-based Delhaize Group in 2016 to form Ahold Delhaize. History Growth in the Netherlands The company started in 1887, when A ...

(Dutch) and Delhaize Group (Belgian), the two predecessor companies that merged to form the present-day Ahold Delhaize. Its business format includes supermarkets, convenience stores, hypermarkets, online grocery, online non-food,

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s, and

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s. Its 21 local brands employ 375,000 people at 6,500 stores in 11 countries, predominantly the Netherlands and Belgium. Ahold Delhaize's international headquarters is in

Zaandam Zaandam () is a city in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received city rights in 1811. It is located on the river Zaan, just north of Amsterdam. The statistical district Zaand ...

, Netherlands; it is the former headquarters of the predecessor company Ahold. Its brands are active in the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania, Serbia, and the United States. It also participates in joint ventures in Indonesia and Portugal. Ahold Delhaize shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and

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(ticker: AD). Ahold's former CEO, Dick Boer, was the CEO of Ahold Delhaize until his retirement in 2018, and Frans Muller, former CEO of Delhaize Group, became CEO after previously having served as the deputy CEO, chief integration officer and acting chief operations officer (''ad interim'') of Delhaize America. Operating more than 2,000 stores across 23 states, Ahold Delhaize is among the largest food and consumables retailers in the United States via their subsidiaries.

History

Ahold Delhaize was formed in July 2016, from the merger of

and Delhaize Group. Delhaize Group dates back to 1867, when the Delhaize brothers opened a wholesale grocery business in Charleroi, Belgium. Ahold started in 1887, when Albert Heijn opened a first store in the Dutch town of Oostzaan. In 2018, the company experienced significant growth in the United States ( Food Lion), the Netherlands, and online. Growth in Belgium has been minimal. With around 380,000 employees in almost 7,000 stores, the company achieved a turnover of 66 billion euros in 2019. Beginning in June of 2020, Ahold Delhaize implemented a partnership with

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to provide home delivery from more than 750 stores operated under the Hannaford, Food Lion, Giant Food, and Stop & Shop brands. The company further expanded in the United States with the acquisition of a majority stake in FreshDirect, an online grocer. As of 2021, Ahold Delhaize has plans to establish Ship2Me, an online marketplace featuring food and merchandise items, in the second half of the year.

Brands and formats

Ahold Delhaize (co-)owns a number of supermarket chains and e-commerce businesses.

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