Activities (1,3 MB) - Colruyt Group
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With the roll-out of automatic stock management and work<br />
simplification methods, Spar Retail offers the independent<br />
storekeepers additional tools to organise themselves more<br />
efficiently and to work even more productively.<br />
Outlook<br />
Spar Retail adjusts its prices daily, so that the customer can<br />
always count on competitive prices. In the coming financial year,<br />
Spar Retail plans to communicate about its price positioning<br />
extensively. Since January 2012, a weekly advertisement is<br />
published in the national press instead of every two weeks. In<br />
these advertisements, each time different storekeepers present<br />
competitive promotional campaigns.<br />
The 50.000 m² site in the industrial zone Mechelen South,<br />
which was purchased in the past financial year, will house the<br />
distribution centre and the central services in 2014.<br />
Spar worldwide<br />
Spar was founded in 1932 in the Netherlands as the<br />
first cooperative of independent storekeepers. ‘The Spar’<br />
stands for ‘Door eendrachtig samenwerken profiteren allen<br />
regelmatig’ (by working together in unison everyone will<br />
profit regularly). With 12.124 affiliated stores in 36 countries,<br />
Spar has grown into the world’s largest retail organisation<br />
that serves over 10 million customers and realises a<br />
total annual turnover of more than EUR 31 billion. Spar<br />
International provides support to the national organisation<br />
from a central office in Amsterdam. There is a second<br />
licence holder in Belgium that has around 60 affiliated<br />
stores and that follows its own course, independent of<br />
Spar Retail.<br />
2.1.2. Alvo<br />
<strong>Colruyt</strong> <strong>Group</strong> has been collaborating successfully with Alvo, a<br />
Belgian purchasing group of independent supermarkets, since<br />
2003. The joint company Alvocol NV is active in purchasing,<br />
delivery and logistics. The Alvocol distribution centre in Bornem<br />
and the Spar distribution centre in Heist-op-den-Berg supply the<br />
54 affiliated Alvo members and their 79 supermarkets. <strong>Colruyt</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong> and Alvo are continuing to look for ways to strengthen<br />
their collaboration in the future.<br />
5,7 %<br />
increase in revenue Spar<br />
Retail, with 19 stores less<br />
3,33 %<br />
market share<br />
annual report 2011•2012 00 01 02 03 04 05<br />
87
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