| SYSTEMWIDE STORES FISCAL 2016-17 YEAR-END | 1,980 |
| FISCAL YEAR-END | Dec. |
| 2016-17 SALES (IN BILLIONS $ U.S.) | 34.4 |
| STORE FORMATS | Traditional supermarket; urban fresh |
| BRANDS/CONCEPTS | Stop & Shop; Giant; Peapod; Food Lion; Hannaford |
| HEADQUARTERS | Carlisle Pa. |
| KEY EXECUTIVES | Dick Boer / president and CEO; Kevin Holt / COO and Ahold USA |
| FOOTNOTES | U.S.-operating group created in July through the merger of Delhaize America parent the Delhaize Group of Brussels into Ahold USA parent Royal Ahold of the Netherlands in a stock deal valued at $29 billion. Delhaize America reported 2015 sales of $17.8 billion from a year-end 1288 Food Lion and Hannaford stores and had estimated 2016 post-merger sales of about $8.1 billion from an estimated year-end 1211 stores. Ahold USA had 2015 sales of $26.4 billion from a year-end 788 Giant and Stop & Shop stores and online grocer Peapod and slightly higher but identical when rounded estimated fiscal 2016 sales of $26.4 billion from an estimated year-end 769 stores. Estimates assume that the remaining 18 of 71 Delhaize stores ordered divested for anti-trust reasons as a condition of merger approval by U.S. regulatory officials and the remaining 10 of 15 Ahold stores ordered sold were transferred by the end of the fiscal year last month. |
