That turned out Monday after a special meeting at Albert Heijn Belgium, the Belgian newspaper reports Time .
Albert Heijn would go to eight branches. Albert Heijn supermarkets in Kiel, Antwerp Groenplaats, Oudenaarde, Lokeren, Leuven, Boortmeerbeek, Turnhout and Ghent Overpoort to be divested. These are stores under its own management. Which are not owned by franchisees.
A spokesman for Ahold would only say that “a limited number of stores” of both chains should be divested to meet the concerns of the supervisory authority.
The new merged company would in some regions of Flanders have a dominant position, reporting trade unions. That is why the regulator requires the disposal of a number of sites.
Albert Heijn now has 38 stores in Belgium, but would have by the end of 2016 fifty. The chain remains open new supermarkets. Delhaize with 838 stores throughout Belgium asset.
Delhaize
How many Delhaize stores have closed, is still unclear. A spokesman for Delhaize to Time said that it is “a small number” franchised stores of this chain. A source tells the newspaper that five supermarkets of this chain must be abandoned.
A total of approximately four hundred employees would be
By the way goes to a draft decision of the regulator. The final verdict may be even different. The regulator does not want to confirm or deny the report.
The shareholders of both companies speak on Tuesday, March 14th on the merger of. Around that time there must be a final decision of the Belgian Competition Authority.
Merger
In the summer of last year announced their intention to merge the companies. The new company will be called Delhaize, Ahold and counts 6,500 stores worldwide.
The parties ran together in 2014 a turnover of 54.1 billion euros. The combined net profit stood at about 1 billion euros. There are more than 350,000 people working at Ahold and Delhaize
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