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Spar is an international supermarket chain founded in 1932 in Holland by Adrian van Well under the name De SPAR.

Spar is represented in the regions of Russia on the basis of an issued license for the exclusive use of the SPAR trademark. Today Spar operates in 73 cities of Russia.

source: http://www.sparural.ru

Spar operates in four main store formats:
SPAR - supermarkets with a sales area from 200 to 1000 sq. m, located in residential areas of cities.

EUROSPAR - supermarket with a sales area from 1000 to 3000 sq. m., aimed at meeting the weekly family needs.

INTERSPAR - hypermarket with a sales area of ​​over 3000 sq. m., in which about 50% of the retail space is occupied by non-food products. The most common format in Eastern and Central Europe.

SPAR Express - fast and high-quality service stores with a sales area of ​​100-200 sq. m., most often located at gas stations.

Geography of licensed partners

  • SPAR Retail - Moscow, Moscow, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Tver regions
  • SPAR East - Moscow region: Orekhovo-Zuevo, Pavlovo-Posadsky district, Zhukovsky, Ramensky district, Noginsky district, Dmitrov, Voskresensk, Elektrostal
  • SPAR Middle Volga - Nizhny Novgorod region, Chuvashia, Mari El, Mordovia, Tatarstan, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Samara regions
  • SPAR Tula - Tula, Ryazan, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Oryol, Tambov regions
  • SPAR Chelyabinsk - Chelyabinsk region
  • SPAR North-West - St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Republic of Karelia, Pskov, Vologda, Novgorod, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk regions
  • SPAR Krasnoyarsk - Krasnoyarsk Territory, Republic of Khakassia
  • SPAR Western Siberia - Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
  • SPAR Irkutsk - Irkutsk region, Republic of Buryatia
  • SPAR Tomsk - Tomsk region
  • SPAR Bashkortostan – Republic of Bashkortostan
  • SPAR Kaliningrad – Kaliningrad region
  • SPAR Altai – Altai Territory, Altai Republic

SPAR Chelyabinsk – Chelyabinsk region

December 3, 2011 - the first SPAR store was opened in Chelyabinsk on Darwin Street, 18. The SPAR hypermarket became the three hundredth store and the only hypermarket of the chain at that time in our country. The store was designed in Holland using the latest European technologies.

Today in the Chelyabinsk region there are 10 stores in the city of Chelyabinsk, V. Ufaley, the villages of Dolgoderevenskoye and Miasskoye.

Products at Spar can be ordered online through the order desk system.

The Spar assortment under the Spar private label includes the following product groups:
grocery

  • Soft drinks. Juices
  • Cotton pads, sticks
  • Waffles
  • Drinking water
  • Sparkling water
  • Hygiene products
  • Jams, preserves
  • Dietary products
  • Sausages
  • Confectionery
  • Pet food
  • Household products
  • Dairy
  • Canned meat
  • Canned vegetables
  • Nuts
K:Companies founded in 1932

Spar- a Dutch chain of supermarkets headquartered in Amsterdam. It is a purchasing cooperative - retailers are grouped under a single brand in order to obtain the most favorable conditions from suppliers.

Story

SPAR was founded in 1932 by Adrian van Well as a voluntary network of grocers called "De SPAR". The main goal is to maintain cooperation between independent wholesalers and retailers in response to the emergence of large retail chains in Europe. The name of the network comes from the first letters of the motto: “Door Eendrachting Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regelmating”, which translated means “We all benefit from cooperation.” The word itself spar means "fir" in Dutch and is the tree featured in the company's logo.

The SPAR concept began to spread outside of Holland only in the late 1940s, with Belgium becoming the second country. During the 1950s the SPAR concept quickly spread throughout Europe. SPAR International was created in 1953, with Adrian van Well as its first president, and the first SPAR International Congress was held in Holland in 1957.

Activity

“SPAR International” unites under its banner more than 15,000 stores in 34 countries (mainly European countries, but also South Africa, Australia, Argentina). Main formats: “Spar” (sales area 500-1000 m²) and “EuroSpar” (1000-3000 m²).

The total turnover of the network is over 27 billion euros per year.

In Russia

The general franchisee of SPAR in Russia is Spar Central Russia, it controls the company Spar Retail, a small stake belongs to Spar International. The Russian Spar chain consists of more than 300 stores located in many cities across the country. The revenue of Russian stores in 2005 was over $150 million.

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- Uncle, please don’t leave me!.. Not you... I beg you, don’t leave me, uncle!
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X5 Retail Group acquired a chain of 26 stores under the Spar brand from Alexander Mamut’s investment fund A&NN Investments Ltd

The second largest retail company in Russia, X5 Retail Group (manages the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, and Karusel chains) acquired a chain of 26 stores under the Spar brand from Alexander Mamut’s investment fund A&NN Investments, the retailer reported. In March, the Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the application of the X5 Retail Group structure to purchase legal entities belonging to the Moscow Spar chain. Investment Director of A&NN Investments Svetlana Kalininskaya confirmed the transaction.

The price of the transaction for the purchase of the network operator - the Spar-Retail company (100% owned by A&NN Investments Ltd) - is not disclosed. As Kalininskaya explained, the full cost of the asset will be known in two to three months, after the network is assessed. “We are an investment fund, our task is to enter assets, bring them to a certain point of profitability and exit,” she explained the decision to sell the asset.

Alexander Mamut also owns shares in the development group of companies PIK, Polymetal, Rambler & Co, the British bookstore chain Waterstone’s, Ideas4retail. In the Forbes Russia ranking of the richest businessmen, the entrepreneur ranks 36th with a fortune of $2.5 billion.

According to SPARK, the revenue of Spar-Retail in 2013 amounted to 5.3 billion rubles, the net loss was 1.8 billion rubles. According to the Dutch Spar, the total revenue of all chains under the Spar brand in Russia (they are managed by 16 independent retail companies) in 2014 grew by more than 30%, to 74.06 billion rubles. Today there are 420 stores operating under this brand.

General Director of InfoLine-Analytics Mikhail Burmistrov estimates the cost of the network at 3 billion rubles. excluding debt. The company had a high net debt, about 5 billion rubles, the expert recalls; the company managed to reduce it slightly, however, the cost of the asset is low. X5 will not have to spend a lot of money on reconstruction; it is “an easily integrated and inexpensive acquisition,” Burmistrov believes.

X5 intends to retain part of the Spar management team. “The company is interested in qualified personnel, so all effective employees will be offered a job in our company,” said Denis Kuznetsov, a representative of the retailer.

Spar-Retail stores operate in Moscow (11), Moscow region (7) and Vladimir (8). Their average area is 400-1600 square meters. m. Most of them will be integrated into the Perekrestok retail chain; several objects will begin to operate under the Pyaterochka brand. Today, X5 itself has 1,300 Pyaterochka supermarkets and more than 200 Perekrestok stores in Moscow and the Moscow region, and 12 Pyaterochka stores in Vladimir.

“The A&NN Investments Ltd team has done a significant job of transforming the SPAR stores into a modern retail network, ready for successful integration into the X5 Retail Group,” Stephane Ducharme, chief executive officer of the X5 Retail Group, was quoted as saying in the press release. Thanks to the deal, Perekrestok will strengthen its leading position in Moscow and the Moscow region, he believes.

After the acquisition and integration of the Kopeyka chain in 2010, X5 Retail Group did not make any major M&A transactions. Its priority remains organic growth, the press release said. The purchase of Spar for integration into Perekrestok is rather an exception; the group’s acquisitions are mainly intended for the company’s main division, the Pyaterochka chain. This network generates 70% of the group's revenue. In the first quarter of 2015, X5's revenue increased by 26.7%, to RUB 182.7 billion. Net profit amounted to 4.11 billion rubles. (+66.5%).

One of the last X5 transactions took place in the fall of 2014. The company acquired its former franchisee Agrotorg-Samara with 116 stores in Samara and the Samara region, all of which operate under the Pyaterochka brand. A few days ago, X5 announced the purchase of the Yoshkar-Ola chain of stores “Nash”. The company did not disclose the amount of the transaction. As a result, the retailer received 26 stores in the Republic of Mari El and one in Chuvashia. The average retail area of ​​one facility is from 600 to 700 sq. m. m.

As of March 31, 2005, X5 operated 5,639 stores. The chain includes 4,958 Pyaterochka stores, 405 Perekrestok supermarkets, 83 Karusel hypermarkets and 193 Express stores.

The group owns 33 distribution centers and 1,407 own trucks. For 2014, the retailer’s revenue amounted to 633,873 million rubles, net profit - 12,691 million rubles. By 16:30 Moscow time, X5 securities on the London Stock Exchange had grown by 3.84%, the retailer’s capitalization amounted to $5.363 billion.

ZAO SPAR RETAIL is one of the largest partners in Russia of the Dutch SPAR chain. Today it unites 27 stores in Moscow, Vladimir and the cities of the Moscow, Vladimir, Ivanovo and Tver regions. History In 1932, a group of Dutch grocers organized a purchasing cooperative. The purpose of this voluntary association was to obtain favorable conditions from the best product suppliers. They named their company “de SPAR”, which means “Spruce” in Dutch. The company's name is an abbreviation of its slogan: “We all benefit from cooperation.” The SPAR network grew rapidly and gained momentum, expanding beyond Holland in the late 1940s. The second country to open SPAR was Belgium. During the 1950s, SPAR stores began to open throughout Europe. In 1953, SPAR International was created in Holland, with Adrian Van Well (the man who founded the company) as its first president. In 1959, the SPAR family included wholesalers and retailers from 9 countries. In the 60s and 70s, SPAR was opened in South Africa and Japan. Over the past 20 years, the network has developed particularly rapidly. SPAR supermarkets have appeared in Eastern Europe and on other continents - Argentina and Australia. In Russia, SPAR began operating in 2000. SPAR currently operates in four formats: INTERSPAR, EUROSPAR, SPAR and SPAR Express. By the end of 2011, 300 stores were opened in Russia under the SPAR brand. Today SPAR Russia is a community of 11 partners. SPAR in numbers SPAR is the world's largest supermarket chain, with approximately 13,700 supermarkets in 35 countries worldwide, with a turnover of over €27 billion. SPAR supermarkets serve more than 9 million customers every day.

SPAR was founded in 1932 in Holland by Adriaan van Well as a voluntary network of grocers called "De SPAR". The name of the network comes from the first letters of the motto: “Door Eendrachting Samenwerken Profiteren Allen Regelmating”, which translated means “We all benefit from cooperation.” A key goal of the community was to maintain cooperation between independent wholesalers and retailers in response to the emergence of large retail chains in Europe.

Supermarkets quickly gained popularity among the Dutch, and already in 1947 the SPAR concept began to spread outside the Netherlands. The second country where supermarkets with Dutch roots opened was Belgium. At the same time, the name DESPAR was shortened to SPAR, which means "spruce" in Dutch. By the way, from the very inception of the network, the image of this tree was used as a symbol, and to this day the spruce is the main element of the SPAR logo.

In the 1950s, the SPAR concept quickly spread throughout Europe. SPAR International was created in 1953, with Adrian van Well as its first president, and the first SPAR International Congress was held in Holland in 1957.

SPAR - 80 years

In 2012, SPAR celebrated its 80th anniversary. Today SPAR is one of the world's leading retailers. SPAR has more than 13,000 stores in 358 countries on 4 continents, approximately 200,000 employees, providing quality products and leading service to more than 10 million customers every day. The total turnover of the network in 2013 amounted to over 32 billion euros.


SPAR in Russia

The first SPAR supermarket in Russia was opened on December 25, 2001 in Nizhny Novgorod. Today, the Russian SPAR chain consists of more than 363 stores and operates in four formats: INTERSPAR, EUROSPAR, SPAR and SPAR Express. In 2012, SPAR in Russia achieved retail sales of €1.13 billion (an increase of 21%). These results were mainly achieved through investment by SPAR Partners in network development and expansion of the retail offering.

Today, SPAR Russia includes 13 partners: SPAR Retail, SPAR Middle Volga, SPAR Tula, SPAR Vostok, SPAR Chelyabinsk, SPAR North-West, SPAR Western Siberia, SPAR Krasnoyarsk, SPAR Irkutsk, SPAR Tomsk, SPAR Kaliningrad, SPAR Altai, SPAR Bashkortostan . By the way, the recent addition of partners from Kaliningrad, Bashkortostan, the Urals, and Siberia has become an important stage in the development of SPAR in Russia.

The activities of SPAR Russia participants are coordinated by SPAR International B.V.. Office of SPAR International B.V. is located in Amsterdam and its Managing Director is Dr. Gordon R. Campbell.

To maintain the productive work and dynamic development of SPAR in Russia, SPAR International B.V. and SPAR Licensed Partners established SPAR Russia B.V. in 2008. with a central office in Moscow.