Once again food retailer Jumbo beaten a great battle. With the purchase of restaurant chain LaPlace is the family company from Veghel even greater. Past six years showed Jumbo hear all of them with the mega-acquisition of Super de Boer and C1000.
Not so long ago it was only a regional supermarket chain Jumbo. The family business, which began in 1921 as a wholesaler in colonial goods, recorded in 2007 with 127 stores a turnover of less than EUR 1.5 billion. Market share: a modest 5 percent. The great rivers was named Jumbo barely known.
Explosion
last year reached Jumbo with 580 stores and 60,000 employees with a turnover of 6.25 billion euro . Market share: an impressive 18.5 percent. That explosive growth owes the company of the family of entrepreneurs from Eerd especially on two mega acquisitions.
In 2009, Jumbo had over half a billion euro down for more than 300 supermarkets of Super de Boer. In late 2011 followed by the acquisition of hundreds C1000 supermarkets of investment company CVC. Incidentally, some of the stores sold again after both deals. Still, Jumbo became the on-next-to-largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands after Albert Heijn.
New big step
Last July was the last C1000, in Gelderland Ulft, converted to Jumbo. This was the 48-year-old CEO Frits van Eerd ready for a big step. So it now appears to be the acquisition of La Place
Yesterday made the curators of the bankrupt department store chain V & amp;. D known to sell the restaurant chain Jumbo. Initially taking the Brabant family business above the 61 independent restaurants over. But it is the intention that it become a reality for a lot of the restaurants in department stores, once the fate of the shops is known.
The acquisition will be at least 1600 employees. That number could rise significantly even if part of the La Place restaurants in the department stores owned by Jumbo come. In 2014 La Place achieved a turnover of 230 million euros.
RTL Z / Mathijs Smit
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