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Albert Heijn story begins in Oostzaan situated near Amsterdam, a tiny town in which it darts shopkeeper Albert Heijn opened his first shop. Certainly a busy salesman did not expect then that his grandson-namesake, who died Jan. 13, 2011, Albert Heijn, leave this world as a millionaire and co-founder, amounting to 3,400 stores an international corporation. But is the grandson of Albert left the earth as a happy man? That's another question.

Albert, the grandson of Alberta
My grandfather Albert Heijn, the creator of the family empire started - as we said - from a single store in Oostzaan. Another branch opened, however, prospered so well that at the time of his death passed to his sons, John and Gerritowi, network numbering 75 branches. Descendants of Albert were equally capable as a father, as a result sklepikarskie empire grew still. When the family company passed into the hands of the next generation, had grown to 215 stores.

Albert Heijn younger was born in 1927 in Zaandam. Wealthy parents spoil their kids - the importation of made according to the latest fashion clothes from Paris, it was not for the state Heijn unremarkable. Young Albert loved sports - skating, swimming and sailing - but the polio virus infection sentenced him to constantly struggle with the symptoms of polio. At age 17 he landed nearly a year in hospital.

After studying in the Netherlands, Albert moved in 1949 to London, then to Switzerland to see firsthand how they operate rustic department stores and supermarkets. There, too, as reported by de Volkskrant ", first uttered his famous phrase, which then often say, if for anything not fit, you can always be shopkeeper.

From vendor to Mr President
After returning from abroad, the richer the experience of Albert began working in a company run by his father. In 1951 he played a big role in opening the first self-service shop in the Netherlands. Many retailers looked suspiciously at the idea - after all the possible success of the stores with self-service meant that it would be possible to release some of the staff ... However, when the first day of the new store sales have doubled, no one had any doubt: is the future of self-service supermarkets. Twenty years later closed the last branch of the AH, where it is still vendor handle customers.

After a few years, gradually at a lower climbing the career ladder in a family company in 1962, his father and uncle Gerrit Jan removed from the foreground. Albert Heijn has been Chairman of the Board Albert Heijn - looking at his name, you can venture to say that it could not be otherwise. At a time when Albert began to manage the company it had turnover of 13.6 million euros a year. When forty years later, Albert withdrew from active business, the company's turnover amounted to Ahold already has 8 billion. Six thousand times more!

And revolutions do not come exclusively from the supermarket. Albert Heijn supermarkets joined the network and other shops, including Ethos drugstores. And thanks to the mergers of American and Spanish companies, the company managed to make an international conglomerate Ahold. Currently, the company Ahold operates approximately 55 thousand people.

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Success at work, unhappiness in the family
Success in professional life did not translate in the case of Albert Heijn in the happiness in family life. His first wife, Herma suffering from depression, and sometimes more often peered into the glass. Albert left her for a former colleague, Loesa Keller. But this relationship did not survive the test of time. After several years of marriage fell in love with it because in working in the company van der Poel Olga. Olga dealt with the marketing and communications.

Wife Heijne, Loesa could not come to terms with her husband's affair. In 1982, she committed suicide. Two years later, Albert Heijn, he married a third time - with the above mentioned van der Poel Olga. But that marriage ended in disaster. In 1990, Olga forties died of bowel cancer. Albert fell into a depression, returned to the complications associated with drawing since childhood polio virus infection.

After a difficult period, but szescdziesiecioczteroletni Albert stood on the aisle for the fourth time. This time, he was the darling of more than twenty years younger Everwijn Monique Lange. In the case of marriage, the wife survived her husband. Soon after the wedding the young couple moved to a country estate in Britain. Albert, where he lived until his recent death.

Brother, ransom and shot in the back of the head
The most dramatic family tragedy, what happened to Albert, however, concerns not his wives, but her beloved brother. Gerrit Jan, who in the company Ahold also held prominent positions in opposition to his brother never liked to use the care of bodyguards. This reluctance, as it turned out, had cost him his life.

"On Wednesday 9 September 1987 - the centenary of the company - called the dentist headquarters to announce that Gerrit Jan did not attend the prearranged routine check. Albert immediately thought the worst: when he moved always in the care and security agents drove an armored car, Gerrit Jan never wanted the guards and special security measures around their home. Alberta assumptions were confirmed, Gerrit Jan was kidnapped "- we read the published text after the death of Albert in the" Volkskrant "(13/01/2011).

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Soon after the disappearance of Gerrit Jan, family of the victim received a letter telling the kidnappers. Between the family and the criminals started long game - the list of groups corresponded encoded advertisements in newspapers. In one letter was a tape with the voice of the kidnapped, in another - his cut finger and eye. After three weeks, there is a specific request - a ransom of 7.7 million guilders (about 4 million). A month later, handed over the ransom.

As it turned out, Gerrit Jan had already been dead a long time. Also, there was no question of any "group of kidnappers." Offences committed in isolation ruthless and emotionless aerospace engineer Ferdi Elsas. After the kidnapping of Gerrit John, went with him into the forest where he recorded his voice first, and then killed, cut off his finger and buried.

Almost a year has lived all of the Netherlands due to the kidnapping of one of the grandsons of the famous Albert Heijn. What the group had kidnapped him? Is he still alive? Gerrit Jan's wife appealed on television for the release of her husband, and the police set a one million guilders reward for help in finding the perpetrators. It worked after a year - fell Elsas, when in one of the liquor stores paid a dollar bill with a serial number known to the police. Known, of course, from a list of notes, which passed the year before the ransom.

Life (and death) outside the company
In 1988 Elsasa sentenced to 20 years in prison, but due to good behavior was released from prison in 2001. Caused great confusion published shortly after his release, the picture in the magazine "Panorama", which could be seen Elsasa ... doing shopping at Albert Heijnie. Several years ago, Elsas was killed in a road accident.

Albert Heijn never come to terms with the death of his brother. "It was after my little brother. I should have more pressure on him to agree to better protect ... "- said in 1997 in an extensive interview with the daily NRC.

In 1989, two years after the death of Jan Gerrit - and exactly 40 years after starting work in the company - Albert Heijn decided to end his business career. Son of Albert, Ab, but he was not interested in continuing the family business (he more interested in a veterinarian's career), while children Gerrit Jan was too young and inexperienced, to immediately get behind the wheel of a powerful corporation.

Albert Heijn has sold its stake in the company and since that time it was connected to the network only stores name. In the last years of the polio virus gave himself more and more familiar: fatigue, pain and progressive muscle paralysis, difficulty in breathing. A life full of professional success and personal drama is slowly coming to an end.

Albert Heijn died 13 January 2011 at his English estate in Puddlestone Court. He was 83.

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Ahold (Koninklijke Ahold NV) is a Dutch company whose business is focused on the retail and food trade. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

On May 27, 1887, Albert Heijn opened a grocery Oostzaan, north of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In the early twentieth century, the grocer is expanding and opening many stores across the country. Albert Heijn goes public in 1948 and became the first grocery chain in the country. In the 70s, it diversifies and opens beverage stores under the name Gall & Gall and cosmetics under the brand Etos. In 1973, the group changed its name to Ahold.

Its expansion continues in the mid-70s with the acquisition of chains in Spain, Portugal and the United States. This expansion has continued more recently in Latin America, Asia and in Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

February 24, 2003 Ahold's share price collapsed because her boss admits he falsified the results of nearly 1 billion euros between 1999 and 2002. The company was convicted for that offense in October 2004.

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Ahold: new share buyback last week

Ahold announced that it repurchased 869,067 of its own shares last week based on a weighted average price of 9.29 euros, which corresponds to an amount of about 8.1 million.

These acquisitions were made under the share repurchase program of one billion euros by the Dutch retailer announced earlier this month.

At this stage, that Ahold has acquired 4,887,603 shares under the new program, an amount of 45.8 million euros.

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Ahold: repurchased 16.8 million shares.

Ahold said it has acquired over 1.76 million of its own shares during the past week, representing a total of 16.8 million euros.

The food retailer based in the Netherlands said that the securities were purchased on the market at an average price of just under € 9.6.

It was the first week of the share repurchase program of one billion euros announced by Ahold in connection with its 2010 annual results on March 3.

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Ahold sales meet expectations in Q4
20 January 2011

LONDON (Reuters) - Strong growth in the Netherlands and a slight improvement in the U.S. market allowed Ahold to achieve a turnover in line with expectations, up 5.5% in the fourth quarter.

This increase comes after adjustment for exchange rate factors and week over the comparable period a year earlier.

The Dutch food retailer, which owns the chain Albert Heijn but makes about 60% of its sales in the U.S., said he had made seven billion euros of net sales, as anticipated the consensus of estimates from 14 analysts polled by Reuters.

Ahold said that the situation in its markets remained difficult and dependent on promotional campaigns, particularly in the United States.

European and American retailers are concerned about their ability to pass on higher food and fuel prices because the government austerity measures restrict the purchasing power of consumers.

Ahold, which operates 2,900 stores in eleven countries, has fared better than its competitors in the U.S. market, particularly A & P and Supervalu have experienced financial difficulties, with a focus on cheap products before the recession.

The store sales, excluding fuel, American chains Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover and Giant-Carlisle increased by 0.9%, better than the 0.6% increase recorded in the third quarter, but less than the growth 1.1% expected by analysts.

In the Netherlands, sales calculated using the same method emerged up 4% against 3.3% forecast. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, they increased by 4.5%, again exceeding expectations.

Analysts now expect information on how the group intends to invest its liquid assets estimated at over two billion euros. Ahold said it could possibly buy back stores of competitors in trouble, buy the Dutch chain Hema or increase its share buyback program.

The Belgian Delhaize, which also carries the bulk of its sales in the U.S. but are experienced more difficult market conditions due to less favorable geographical position Ahold, must publish the results of Friday's fourth quarter.

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Albert Heijn: less variety but more non-food

The Dutch Albert Heijn (Ahold) will reduce its food basket to make room for the "no food". The sign will have five years to complete its operation "Revitalization" in its 670 supermarkets located throughout the Netherlands.
"Based on studies conducted with customers, we concluded that we sometimes have too many varieties of the same product. The consumer does not need five brands of strawberry jam. It is better to reduce them to three, offer a kiwi jam and use the space available for non-food products, "explains Jose Smeets, a spokesman for Albert Heijn.
Even if they're defending the headquarters in Zaandam, the "theory of jam" Albert Heijn back a few years back, when the Dutch supermarkets have a limited supply of products. But the firm has no choice, "in contrast to France, the place is limited in the Netherlands," says Jose Smeets. That is the only alternative to sell "these new consumer products that are CD ROM, PCs, DVDs, etc.. .
It's not all. Albert Heijn will launch the construction of large supermarkets within the inner cities. Expected number of 50 within 5 years they will be between 3500 and 4000 m2, a record in the Netherlands. But Jose Smeets refuses to classify them as hypermarkets.

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Albert Heijn at loggerheads with its suppliers

After Coca-Cola and Heineken, Unilever has borne the brunt of the new procurement policy of Albert Heijn.
The armistice was signed between Albert Heijn and Unilever. Do not mince from the first Dutch supermarket chain had in fact decided last fortnight an indefinite boycott on the sale of Unilever products. A retaliatory measure to force the Anglo-Dutch group to review its terms of sale. "We finally reached an agreement and the situation is again normal," they say at the headquarters of the sign.
This strike-rays, which were renewed more products from multinationals, involved a thirty articles, including flagship brands Knorr, Omo, Unox, Cif and Bertolli. Albert Heijn minimized the inconvenience to customers, stating that the products of its own brand to replace the missing items. For its part, Unilever believed that the boycott was about only a third of its sales at Albert Heijn.
Anyway, Albert Heijn has used strong-arm tactics face repeatedly. Coca-Cola has had to change the terms of the sale of its new lemon drink, the risk of derailing his campaign launch in the 508 leading Dutch supermarket. And brewer Heineken has also had to show their credentials by agreeing to exorbitant discount to its buyer for its purchases of beer.
This hardening of tone is not a coincidence. After repeated acquisitions, the group Ahold, parent company of Albert Heijn, believes it has the clout to discuss equal footing with its largest suppliers. Moreover, Ahold now uses the central buying Ahold Global Sourcing to supply all of its European operations.
Aggressive competitors
Moreover, economic downturn and stock market slump, the distributor Batavian seeks to lower its costs to increase profit margins. Finally, the increased competition expected in the Netherlands with the price war looming and signs, is no stranger to such severe developed with suppliers.
Casino, which has strengthened the local leadership of a former Ahold, is about to launch its offensive on the Dutch market, after its acquisition of 39% stake in Laurus, the number two of the distribution. Another threat: the German discounters Aldi and Lidl who nibble market share (10.1% overall).
A figure that also reflect on the possible launch Casino Leader Price in the Batavian Kingdom.

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