Dick Boer (born 31 August 1957) is a Dutch businessman. From 2011 to 2018, he was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the supermarket chain

Ahold Delhaize Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. (in Dutch 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 (Dutch) and Delhaize Group (Belgia ...

Early life

Boer was born on 31 August 1957.

Career

Boer joined Ahold in 1998, rising to CEO on 1 March 2011, succeeding

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. On 24 June 2015, when Ahold and

Delhaize Delhaize Group SA (, ) was a Belgian multinational retail company headquartered in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, and operated in seven countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group was the operation of ...

announced that they were to combine their businesses as

, it was stated that Boer would become CEO of the merged company, with

Frans Muller Frans W. H. Muller (born 1961) is a Dutch businessman, and the CEO of Ahold Delhaize, since July 2018, having been deputy CEO. Education Muller earned a master's degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Career Muller sta ...

, CEO of Delhaize to become deputy CEO and chief integration officer. In July 2018, Boer retired and was succeeded by his deputy,

Other roles

Boer is a board member of the

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. He is vice-chair of the executive board of The

Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers VNO-NCW (known in English as the "Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers") is a Dutch employers' federation founded in 1996 as a merger of the Christian-democratic ''Nederlands Christelijk Werkgeversverbond'' (NCW), which was founded as ...

(VNO-NCW). He is a member of the advisory board of

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. He also has three roles at the

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2017: governor of the consumer industries community, steward of the future of health and healthcare system, and co-chair of the human centric health steering committee.

References

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