List of supermarket chains in Belgium explained

This is a list of supermarket chains in Belgium. As of 2011, in Belgium three major groups form more than two thirds of the market: Colruyt group 27%, Delhaize 22.5% and Carrefour 22%. Then there are Aldi 11%, Lidl 5.6% and Makro 4.5%.^[1]

Current supermarket chains

Name	Stores	Type of stores	Parent or brand owner
	134	supermarket	Ahold Delhaize
AD Delhaize	217	supermarket	Ahold Delhaize
Proxy Delhaize	228	convenience	Ahold Delhaize
Delhaize Shop & Go	112	convenience	Ahold Delhaize
	42	supermarket	Ahold Delhaize
	457	discount	Aldi
	45	hypermarket	Carrefour Group
	445	supermarket	Carrefour Group
	290	convenience	Carrefour Group
	247	supermarket	Colruyt Group
	24	supermarket	Colruyt Group
	129	discount	Colruyt Group
	87	convenience	Les Mousquetaires
	300	discount	Lidl
	6	hypermarket	Louis Delhaize Group
	117	supermarket	Louis Delhaize Group
	6	cash & carry	Metro AG
	9	discount	Groupe Casino
	316	supermarket	SPAR

Defunct supermarket chains

• Écomarché (owned by Les Mousquetaires, now rebranded to Intermarché Contact or Intermarché Super^[2])
• GB Supermarkets, Taken over by Carrefour. Before that, the stores belonged to the now defunct GIB Group, almost all GB stores were later rebranded to become Carrefour stores:
  • Maxi GB (now: Carrefour)
  • Super GB (now: Carrefour Market)
  • GB Express (now: Carrefour Express)
  • Bigg's Continent (now: Carrefour hypermarkets)
• Jawa (was a supermarket chain, all its stores were taken over in 1995 to become Match supermarkets)
• Profi (was a discount store owned by Louis Delhaize Group, rebranded to Smatch supermarket)
• Unic (rebranded to Super GB and later Carrefour GB.)

Notes and References

1. Web site: retaildetail.eu . 2011-07-14 . 2012-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327160504/http://www.retaildetail.eu/nl/case-van-de-week/item/2421-de-belgische-voedingsmarkt-2010-2011?tmpl=component&print=1 . dead .
2. Web site: Intermarché - Trouver un magasin près de chez vous . 2013-02-13 . 2013-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130224095113/http://www.intermarche.be/trouver-un-magasin-intermarche-pres-de-chez-vous.html . dead .