Sligro Food Group N.V. encompasses food retail and foodservice companies selling directly and indirectly to the entire Dutch food and beverages market. The group is active in foodservice as a wholesaler and in food retail as a wholesaler and retailer.

Food retail

The food retail activities comprise around 120 full-service supermarkets operated under the EMTÉ and Golff formats, of which over 40 are operated by independent retailers.

Foodservice

The foodservice activities comprise two businesses that work closely together.

Sligro offers both cash-and-carry and delivery services from 45 large cash-and-carry stores and 11 delivery centres serving bars and restaurants, leisure facilities, volume users, company caterers, fuel retailers, small and medium-sized enterprises and smaller retail businesses.

Van Hoeckel is fully focussed on the institutional market.

We operate our own in-house production facilities, making specialised convenience products and fish and patisserie items, while our Fresh Partners associates specialise in meat, game and poultry, fruit and vegetables and bread and bakery products.

We stock around 60,000 food and food-related non-food items for our customers, while also providing a wide range of services, including franchising.

CIV Superunie B.A., which has a market share of around 30% of the Dutch supermarket sector, handles Sligro Food Group’s food retail purchases. As market leader, the group handles its own purchases of foodservice products. Sligro Food Group companies actively seek to share expertise and utilise the substantial scope for synergy and economies of scale.

Activities that are primarily client-related take place largely at an individual operating company level, with behind-thescenes management at a central level.

We strive to increase our gross margins through joint purchasing, combined with direct and detailed margin management. Operating expenses are kept in check through ongoing, tight cost control and a joint, integral logistics strategy. Group synergy is further enhanced by joint IT systems, joint management of property and group management development.