Etablissementen Franz Colruyt N.V. - Établissements Franz Colruyt S.A., usually known simply as Colruyt is a Belgian

Belgium

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 family company

Family business

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 that is one of the major players in the country's retail

Retailing

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 network. Founded in 1925 by Franz Colruyt, the group today operates a number of retail brands, most significantly its eponym

Eponym

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ous discount supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

 chain. The company is headquartered in Halle

Halle, Belgium

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 and has operations in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

, France

France

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, Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 and the Netherlands

Netherlands

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.

Operations

The group's main business is its Colruyt discount supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

 chain, which has over 200 locations in Belgium. The brand competes directly with discount retailers such as Aldi

ALDI

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 and Lidl

Lidl

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. Other food retail brands operated by the company include the grocery store

Grocery store

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 chain OKay and the organic

Organic food

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 supermarket Bio-Planet. Colruyt is also one of two franchisees

Franchising

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 of the SPAR

SPAR

Spar , trades from approximately 12400 stores in 34 countries worldwide and is the world's largest independent voluntary retail trading chain. Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932 by retailer Adriaan Van Well and now, through its affiliate organisations, operates through most European...

brand in Belgium. In France Colruyt also operates the Coccinelle chain of supermarkets.

List of subsidiaries

• Colruyt - supermarkets
• Colruyt France - supermarkets
• Sparretail - Spar grocery stores (franchising)
• Bio Planet - Bio (organic) supermarkets
• Colruyt Group Services (IT - work simplification - BPM - Marketing)
• intrion - Project management company
• Druco - printing company
• Dreamland - toy shops
• DreamBaby
• Dream - gift shops
• Okay - grocery stores
• Pro a Pro Distribution - distribution company
• Collivery - home delivery
• Collishop - home delivery [Non-Food]
• Dats 24 - Gas station
• Colruyt Export
• N.V. Finco (FINances for COlruyt)