The Albert brand was founded in Central Europe in 1991. Today Ahold operates 280 stores in the Czech Republic and 25 stores in Slovakia, where it is among the best-known brands in food retail.
The company, which also operates more than 21 gas stations in the Czech Republic and seven in Slovakia, employs 15,000 people in [...]

2009 Brand Z™ Top 100 Ranking
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During my market visits, i come across lots of displays in the supermarkets and hypermarkets i visit, some i would like to share with you here.

Yes retailers do kill brands, and don’t be surprised because I have seen it today and it is happening everyday in supermarkets or hypermarkets around the globe, I was a buyer previously and buyers are known to be arrogant people and pushing brands to fight between each other in order for them to grab the [...]

Short for Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion, Dia is a Carrefour-owned, hard-discount grocery store. With a vast presence in Spain with more than 2,900 stores and can also be found around the world in Greece, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, and China.

Dia corporate website

Continuing its expansion into Eastern and New Europe, A.S. Watson in 2004 acquired Drogas, a leading health & beauty chain operating in Latvia and Lithuania.

Established in 1993, Drogas was the first self-service store chain selling household goods, general merchandise and health & beauty products in the Baltics States. Over the years, Drogas has become one [...]

Retail distribution is not really developed in Algeria. Carrefour is here more than 2 years ago, but it is a total failure as local importers and brand distibutors describe it. The rumor in town is saying that Carrefour International have left their local partner to go solo on their own, some other does not support [...]

One Auchan store in Budapest with 79 checkouts.

Rimi Baltic is a major retail operator in the Baltic states based in Riga, Latvia. Rimi Baltic operates 191 retail stores in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and has distribution centres in each country. The stores have different profiles, depending on range of products and size:
* Rimi Hypermarket – hypermarkets
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During my market visits, I spot lots of things in the retail distribution, this time I was shocked by the size of the hair gel category in this supermarket in Cairo, really interesting to see this quantity of brands in a category where in some countries it has much much less shelf space than the [...]