Royal Ahold is one of the major retail brands in the world and also a famous operator of international supermarket. Royal Ahold is also known as a food service company. Royal Ahold Company is in fact located in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
To talk about the history of the famous Royal Ahold, it was originated in 1887. In the same year, the first grocery store was inaugurated under Royal Ahold in Oostzaan, the Netherlands. The grocery store was named Albert Heijn. Gradually the retail store became popular and expanded its size. The store became a public store in the year of 1948. With its huge success, Royal Ahold gradually became the largest grocery shop in the whole Netherlands, within 1970s.
Royal Ahold did not limit itself only in grocery stores. Now Royal Ahold has opened several other retail branches of liquor stores, cosmetic stores and many other stores during the 1970s. The name “Ahold” came to existence in 1973. “Ahold” does in fact signify the name “Albert Heijn Holdings”.
Royal Ahold expanded its chains in various other foreign countries also. It started acquiring chains in the United States of America, Portugal, Spain and in many other countries. Royal Ahold has also acquired some of the markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and in many other places. So you can well imagine the rate of expansion of this grand Royal Ahold.
Some of the important shareholders of Royal Ahold are DeltaFort Beleggingen I B.V., ING Groep N.V, AEGON N.V and so on.
