Tag "Mercadona"

Carrefour Spain Invests Over €84m in Price Reduction Initiative

Carrefour Spain is investing over €84 million this year in a series of price reductions to support its customers amidst cost-of-living concerns. From September, Carrefour has reduced prices on 2,500...

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Spanish Regional Chains Outperform National Competitors

The Spanish grocery market is showing signs of stabilisation after five years of upheaval caused by the pandemic, inflation, and supply chain disruptions. According to Kantar, the top four chains...

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Turkish Retailer Migros Ticaret Crowned Europe’s Strongest Grocery Retail Brand

Turkish retailer Migros Ticaret has been named the strongest grocery retail brand in Europe, in the inaugural Top 50 Strongest European Grocery Retailers report, prepared by ESM: European Supermarket Magazine and...

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Mercadona, Carrefour Lead Supermarket Rankings In Spain

Mercadona and Carrefour emerged as top retailers in Spain in terms of market share for July despite experiencing some decline. Mercadona’s market share stood at 26.8% (down 0.2 percentage points...

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Covirán Eyes Acquisition Of Some Auchan Stores In Portugal

Spanish supermarket chain Covirán is considering the potential acquisition of some Auchan stores in Portugal as the French retailer is forced to sell off some of its outlets in the...

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Mercadona Earmarks €150m For Next Round Of Price Reduction

Spanish retailer Mercadona plans to invest €150 million in lowering the prices of a range of products to help consumers save on their grocery baskets. The latest initiative will see...

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Carrefour Eyes Acquisition Of Uvesco In Spain

Carrefour is exploring the acquisition of Spanish food distributor Uvesco Group from PAI Partners, according to media reports. PAI Partners owns a majority stake in Uvesco, which operates the BM...

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Alcampo, Eroski And Consum Ramp Up Store Openings in Spain

Several supermarket groups are ramping up store openings in Spain, despite a slowdown in the overall market. Retailers including Alcampo, Eroski and Consum aim to expand their reach and grab...

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Pingo Doce to open 50 new in-store restaurants

Pingo Doce is looking to differentiate itself in the more and more competitive Portuguese market by expanding its foodservice offering. The retailer plans to open 50 in-store restaurants this year,...

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Eleven new stores to back Mercadona’s growth in Portugal

Spanish retailer Mercadona plans to open 11 new stores in Portugal in 2024, increasing its presence in the country. The expansion would bring the chain’s total number of stores to...

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Mercadona Boosts Investment In Portugal

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona is planning to inject €180 million into its Portuguese subsidiary to fund continued expansion plans in the country throughout 2024. The additional investment will directly support...

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Lidl’s international expansion stutters

Lidl has put the brakes on its international expansion. Selected investments in Poland and Spain to close the gap to market leaders. In the 2023/2024 financial year, which ended at...

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Mercadona Ends 2023 With 49 Stores In Portugal

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has expanded its presence in neighbouring Portugal by opening 10 new stores in 2023, reaching a total of 49 by year-end. Despite being newcomer, Mercadona has...

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Minden várakozást felülmúlt idén az Anuga

A világ első számú élelmiszer- és italszakmai vására, az Anuga idén október 7. és 11. között adott találkozót az iparág vezető szereplőinek. A 200 országból érkező mintegy 140 000 látogatóval...

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Mercadona Opens New Hub For Online Services

Spanish retailer Mercadona has opened a second hub in Boadilla del Monte in the Community of Madrid to boost online services offered by its existing facility in Getafe. Mercadona has...

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Spain’s Leading Food Retailer To Cut Prices Of 500 Basic Products

Spain’s leading supermarket chain, Mercadona, will lower the prices of at least 500 basic food products amid a cost of living crisis that had prompted the government to seek concessions...

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Spanish Retailer Mercadona Opens Brussels Office

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has opened an office in Brussels, as it seeks to gain more visibility in Europe, according to local media reports. Spanish daily El Economista reported that the...

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Spain’s Mercadona: 38% smaller carbon footprint last year

Mercadona measured its emissions from 2015 to 2021, in line with its commitment to the Paris Agreement. In order to reduce its footprint, the group has installed 9,000 solar panels...

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Mercadona offers refills for perfume products

Spanish retailer Mercadona has introduced refills for its perfume products in an attempt to cut down on plastic waste. The refill of Deliplus hand soap will do away with more...

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Mercadona Changes Oat Milk Recipe

Spanish retailer Mercadona has changed the recipe of its oat drink in a bid to make it more intense and combine better with coffee. The retailer also introduced a new...

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Mercadona Introduces Refills For Perfumery Products

Spanish retailer Mercadona is set to introduce refills for its perfumery products to reduce plastic waste. This measure reduces packaging waste by refilling the bottle once it has been emptied,...

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Mercadona plans to end the year with 20 stores in Portugal

Mercadona plans to open 4 more supermarkets in Portugal until the end of the year. This move will increase the number of stores in the country to 20. In spite...

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Mercadona To Buy 850 Tonnes Of Local Figs In 2020

Spanish retailer Mercadona has announced that it is to buy 850 tonnes of figs from local producers in 2020. This is 30% more than the 650 tonnes of fresh figs...

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Mercadona Launches New Chocolate Range In Portugal

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has launched a high-cocoa chocolate SKU in Portugal as part of its Hacendado private label range. The Negro 99% tablet is produced locally by Imperial, and will...

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Mercadona To Open New Store In Portugal In June

Mercadona has announced plans to resume expansion in Portugal with the launch of a new store in Aveiro on 16 June. The retailer had initially planned to open its eleventh...

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Sales Of Refrigerated Sandwiches Fall By 30% In Mercadona

Spanish retailer Mercadona has seen a 30% decline in the sales of refrigerated sandwiches following the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer attributed this decline to change in consumer habits as Spain...

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Magazine: Anuga 2019: The place where worldwide supply and demand met

Early October 7,500 exhibitors (72 from Hungary) from 106 countries presented their products and services to more than 170,000 visitors for 5 days at Anuga, the world’s biggest food-themed trade...

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Mercadona enters Portugal

Spanish retailer Mercadona might be bigger than the four retail chains that follow it in the ranking, but it must invest in new channels and markets to keep its position...

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Magazine: Schwarz Group Dominates European Retail

As in the previous year, German Schwarz Group leads the ranking. With a gross sales plus on company level of 6.3 percent it reached a 7 percent market share in...

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WITRON Realises Automated Frozen Food Logistics Centre For Mercadona

WITRON is currently building its sixth fully-automated frozen food logistics centre for the market-leading Spanish food retailer, Mercadona. At the beginning of March 2019, both parties signed the contract for...

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