GAMMA is a Dutch

Hardware store Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing suppli ...

-chain. It started on May 11, 1971 in

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. The headquarters of the franchise-organisation

Intergamma Intergamma is a Dutch franchise-organisation. It owns two hardware store-chains, namely Gamma (store), Gamma and Karwei. Intergamma started on May 11, 1971 with a Gamma store in Breda. Its current CEO is Harm-Jan Stoter. , Intergamma had 373 store ...

is located in

Leusden Leusden () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is located about 3 kilometres southeast of Amersfoort. The western part of the municipality lies on the slopes of the Utrecht Hill Ridge and is largely cov ...

and as of 2011 it has 245 stores, of which 164 are located in the

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and 81 in

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. Intergamma also owns the Hardware store-chain

Karwei Karwei is a Dutch Hardware store-chain. In 1991 ''Karwei Holland Nationaal B.V.'' became part of the franchise-organisation Intergamma, which headquarters is located in Leusden.euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...

. GAMMA commercials have been broadcast in the Netherlands on radio and television since 1994, and have made the actors

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Geen Gamma-gelul aan mijn hoofd
Algemeen Dagblad, June 29, 2007.Het bewustzijn van de nacht
Algemeen Dagblad, October 30, 2004. and

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well known in the Netherlands. In Flanders Luk WynsRadiospotjes: noodzaak of extraatje?
De Standaard, February 13, 2010 is the face of the company.

References

External links

Gamma.nl
Official website of Gamma
GAMMA
on intergamma.nl {{Authority control Retail companies established in 1971 Companies based in Utrecht (province) Leusden