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Group highlights - continued
Ahold Europe
Albert Heijn continued the roll-out of its new supermarket format
and launched a new label for responsible products, AH puur&eerlijk;
Albert Heijn's XL store was named best supermarket in the
Netherlands;
Etos was named the best drugstore and best drugstore chain
in the Netherlands;
Gall Gall rebranded and refreshed all of its stores by mid-2009;
Albert/Hypernova completed the rebranding of its Hypernova stores
to the Albert brand in the Czech Republic;
Albert closed 23 underperforming stores and downsized 12
hypermarkets in the Czech Republic.
Ahold USA
Stop Shop/Giant-Landover:
- Launched a new value initiative to further increase revenue
and profitability;
- Named winner of Supermarket News' Retail Excellence
Award 2009;
- Giant-Landover continued Project Refresh, bringing the total
for store remodels to 65 out of approximately 100 planned
for this program;
Giant-Carlisle/Martin's:
- Showed strong volume growth as a result of successful price
improvement program;
- Agreed to purchase 25 Ukrop's Super Markets, and opened the
third Giant Super Store.
Group at a glance
