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Ahold Delhaize

Food retail and e-commerce · Netherlands

Ahold Delhaize is an international food retail group that runs 17 local supermarket, online and specialty brands across the United States, Europe and Indonesia, serving about 77 million customers a week in 9,551 stores and online.

What makes it different

Franchisees run about a quarter of its stores.

2,352Franchisee-operated storesas of 2025-12-28

In the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece franchisees operate stores that bring in €10.5B of sales and fees.

How big it is

How big is Ahold Delhaize?

€92.4BNet salesFY2025
9,551Stores2025
384,000Associates2025
How it makes money FY2025

Mostly its own stores, plus franchise and online.

  • Owned stores77%€71.0B
  • Franchisees and affiliates11%€10.5B
  • Online11%€10.3B
  • Wholesale0%€328M
  • Other0%€249M
How the business works

Keep brands local. Share the scale.

  1. 117 local grocery brands
  2. 2Buying, tech and data
  3. 3Savings into price, own brands

Cost savings from shared buying and technology fund lower prices and own brands that keep customers loyal.

Who owns it
  • BlackRock, Inc.5.63%
  • Amundi Asset Management3.02%

CEO: Frans Muller

Who it competes with
Key moments
  1. 1867Delhaize is established
  2. 1887Albert Heijn is established
  3. 1999bol is established
  4. 2016Ahold and Delhaize Group merge
  5. 2018Frans Muller becomes CEO
Sources

Every number on this page comes from Ahold Delhaize's own reports.

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What Ahold Delhaize tracks26 metrics
Stores
Customers served each week
Associates
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Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from2 regions
United States
Europe
The full timeline16 moments
2021
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