At Colruyt Group, Chief Operating Officer Marc Hofman will retire on 1 April. This will cause some shifts in the executive committee of the retail company.
Colruyt Group is taking an interest of more than 40 per cent in Smartmat, the company behind Rayon online supermarket and meal kits by Foodbag and 15gram. In doing so, the group wants to strengthen its online food offering.
Brand manufacturers Nestlé and Ad van Geloven (Mora) are currently no longer supplying products to supermarket chain Albert Heijn. The reason for this is disagreement about price increases that the producers want to implement.
In Germany, market leader Edeka is delisting almost the entire range of multinational PepsiCo. The annual negotiations between supermarkets and brand manufacturers lead to growing nervousness all over Europe.