Mercadona, Carrefour Lead Supermarket Rankings In Spain

Mercadona’s market share stood at 26.8% (down 0.2 percentage points from June), while Carrefour was at 10% (down 0.1 point), the online publication revistainforetail.com reported citing data from Kantar.

For Carrefour, it marks three consecutive months of decline in market share.

Lidl retained its marketshare of 6.6% for the sixth month in a row to secure the third position, data showed.

Eroski emerged fourth with a 4.2% market share, down 0.1 points compared to the previous month.

Grupo DIA held on to its market share of 3.6% to round off the top five.

Consum and Alcampo secured the sixth and seventh place, respectively, and were the only grocery retailers to witness growth in July.

Both witnessed an increase of 0.1 points to account for a market share of 3.4% (Consum) and 3.2% (Alcampo).

The seven companies accounted for 57.8% of the country’s FMCG market as of July 14, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous month, the report noted.

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