Jumbo also go online to compete with market leader Albert Heijn. The Brabant supermarket chain, the last five years became the second supermarket in the Netherlands, is a competitor of AH.nl.
That says financial director Ton van Veen in an interview with Het Financieele Dagblad . Jumbo wants to open the next time three to five pick-up points for groceries each week. In the summer, the company wants to have a hundred pickup points “
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Albert Heijn as some widely active in home delivery. Jumbo but hopes to make a quick catch up. Van Veen will therefore ‘for years’ anymore for Jumbo shopping is also home delivery. “We are last year after two years of preparation started with 28 collection points. We have now been removed from the teething, so we can significantly accelerate growth.”
The financial director looks back on a good year. The Jumbo stores grew on their own with 3.5 percent in sales in a virtually flat market. The extra income according to Van Veen mainly due to new customers who Jumbo sparked. Consumer sales of Jumbo Holding amounted to EUR 6.8 billion, representing a market share of 20 percent.
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