Docks de France
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The Docks de France group is a former French distributor, bought in 1996 by Auchan
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Auchan
Groupe Auchan SA is a French international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups with a presence in 12 countries and 175,000 employees....
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History
- 1904 : Ernest Toulouse creates the Central Docks Company in Tours, France
- 1957 : Docks de France settles in the Paris region
- 1963 : The first French hypermarketHypermarketIn commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full groceries lines and general merchandise...
opens its doors - 1966 : Docks de France opens its first hypermarket under the brand SuperSuma
- 1964 - 1993 Docks de France buys several regional companies
- 1968 : Creation of the subsidiary Sabeco in Spain
- 1969 : Creation of the Mammouth hypermarkets
- 1978 : Creation of the Lil' Champ Food Stores in the United States
- 1979 : Acquisition of the Picardy Beehive
- 1982 : Creation of 'Atac
- 1986 : Creation of the Super Pakbo warehouse stores
- 1987 : Acquisition of Économats du Centre
- 1991 : Shut down of Super Pakbo
- 1993 : Acquisition of the Alsatian Supermarkets Company
- 1995 : Equity in a distribution company in PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
- 1996 : Auchan Group takeover of Docks de France
- 1997 : Lil' Champ Food Stores sold to The PantryThe PantryThe Pantry, Inc. is a convenience store chain based in Cary, North Carolina. The Pantry was founded in 1967 by Sam Wornom and Truby Proctor, Jr. The company has been publicly traded since June 1999 and owned by investors since 1987 when then investor Montrose Capital purchased controlling shares...
- 1998 : The Distribution companies: 'West Corporation Distribution Center', 'Alsatian Society Distribution', the Society of Lyon and Picardy Beehive merge with the Company of Parisian Distribution who took the name Atac.
- 1999 : Reorganisation of the Auchan group
- The hypermarkets Auchan and Mammouth fuse with the name of Auchan
- The supermarketSupermarketA supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...
s and shops of AtacAtacAtac is a brand of predominantly food stores operating supermarket, created by the 'Docks de France' in 1985 and is a subsidiary of the Group Auchan, since 1998....
and EcoEco- Eco may refer to :* eco-, a prefix mostly relating to ecological or environmental terms* .eco, , a proposed top-level domain for the Internet* Eco , a proposed currency* Eco , a computer simulation game...
Service fuse with the name of Atac - The supermarkets and shops of Atac fuse and rebrand to Simply MarketSimply MarketSimply Market is a brand of French supermarkets formed in 2005. This brand is a new concept to eventually replace Atac supermarkets. The brand belongs to the AuchanSuper subsidiary that manages the branches of Auchan supermarkets...