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Colruyt Group is a

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corporation that is managing the

Colruyt Colruyt Group is a Belgian family-owned retail corporation that is managing the Colruyt supermarkets and other subsidiaries such as OKay, Bio-Planet, DATS 24, DreamLand, DreamBaby, and more. Founded in 1928 by Franz Colruyt, the group today ...

supermarkets and other subsidiaries such as OKay, Bio-Planet, DATS 24, DreamLand, DreamBaby, and more. Founded in 1928 by Franz Colruyt, the group today is most significantly known for its eponymous discount supermarket chain, which is one of the major players in especially Belgium. Colruyt Group is headquartered in the city of Halle and has operations in

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and

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Operations

The group's main business is its Colruyt discount

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stores, with over 220 locations in Belgium. The brand competes directly with discount retailers such as

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and

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. Other food retail brands operated by the company include the

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chain OKay and the

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supermarket Bio-Planet. Colruyt is also one of two

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of the

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brand in Belgium. In France Colruyt operates its eponymous chain and also supplies the Coccinelle chain of supermarkets.

List of subsidiaries

Colruyt supermarket Colruyt is a chain of supermarkets, started at Lembeek near Halle, Belgium. Colruyt carries the surname of the founder of the family business, the Colruyt family still owns the company. Colruyt is part of Colruyt Group, a Belgian multinational ...

s - Belgium * Colruyt France - supermarkets * Colruyt Group Services (IT - work simplification - BPM - Marketing - Technics) * Bio-Planet - Bio (organic) supermarkets * Colex - Colruyt Export: export of products to Africa, South America, ... * Collect&Go - online grocery shopping * ColliShop - e-shop non-food * Cru - delicacies markets * DATS 24 - gas stations * DreamBaby - children apparel * DreamLand - toy and gift shops * Eoly (sustainable energy supplier) * OKay - grocery stores * Retail Partners Colruyt Group (franchising) * Solucious - wholesale * Symeta (formerly Druco) - printing company * ZEB - fashion apparel store

Milestones

* 1960: purchase of IBM 360-20 to process the famous punch cards as the first supermarket in Belgium. * 1960s: start of the lowest prices policy with Discount Verloo. * 1971: opening of the first unmanned DATS 24-hour filling station in Belgium. * 1987: first company in Belgium to use ‘full scanning’, a barcode on the product to automate replenishment, stock management and orders. * 1990s: food safety in the light of the dioxin affair. the company suggested to draw up specifications with requirements for suppliers, which were later also used by other distributors * 2000: Collect&Go offers Colruyt’s food assortment online. * 2011: pursuit of animal welfare. No more meat from castrated pigs is sold in the group’s stores since early 2011. Later, other supermarkets like Delhaize and Lidl followed suit, urged on by the (GAIA), a Belgian organisation for animal welfare.

References

External links

* {{BEL20 companies Companies based in Flemish Brabant Companies listed on Euronext Brussels Supermarkets of Belgium Belgian brands Colruyt family