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Food Retailing in Western Europe 2005

The Apex Group
March 1, 2005
44 Pages - SKU: ODS1118374

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Countries covered: Europe

This ODS report covers the grocery retailing market in Western Europe offering data on market structures, market sizes and growth rates, market shares of the retail chains and company information on the key players.

Whilst the broad structure of the market has remained the same over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of discounter format stores whilst growth in hypermarkets has stalled. Rapid development in Eastern Europe has seen the large western retailers battling over market share, and a number of important company takeovers and mergers have created more consolidation within individual countries.

Vale growth in overall market size has been steady but at a low rate (3-4%) in most regions, with countries such as Germany and France showing stagnation, in line with their economic growth. This has been the main impetus for almost all the large grocery retail companies to move into overseas markets. The other main effects of stagnation and low growth has been to force prices down (discounter retail formats continue to make significant progress in almost all countries) and to make the larger chains move into non-food items in a concerted way.

In 2005, the key issues facing the Western European grocery retailer market will be further consolidation, the accession of the 10 new countries into the EU, the growth of discounters and retailer-supplier relations. Many analysts are also waiting for a significant acquisition by the U.S. behemoth Wal-Mart, which could profoundly alter the European retailing market dynamic.

1. Definition

2. Introduction and Executive Summary

3. Market Size and Structure
3.1. Grocery and Food Retail Market Size in Europe
3.2. Western Europe Grocery Retail Market Structure
3.2.1. Market Concentration
3.2.2. Growth of the Discount Format
Table 1. Discount Store Penetration - GB, Ireland, France and Germany - 2004
Table 2. Discounters Share of Grocery Sales by Country - 2004
3.3. Grocery Retail Events and Trends in 2004 and 2005
3.3.1. Retailer - Supplier Relations
3.3.2. The Move to Non-Food Items by the Retailers
3.3.3. Where Next for Wal-Mart?
3.4. The Leading European Grocery Retailers
Table 3. Leading European Grocery Retailers by Turnover (€ billion) - 2004

4. Country Analysis
4.1. Grocery Retailing in Austria
Table 4. Austria Retailer Market Share (Multiples only) by Value - 2004....11 4.2. Grocery Retailing in Belgium
Table 5. Belgium Grocery Retail Market Share by Value - 2002
4.3. Grocery Retailing in France
Table 6. France Retailer Market Share by Value - 2004
4.4. Grocery Retailing in Germany
4.4.1. The Grocery Retailing Market in Germany
4.4.2. Grocery Retailers Market Share in Germany
Table 7. Germany Grocery Retail
Market Share by Value - 2004
4.5. Grocery Retailing in Italy
Table 8. Italy Grocery Retail Market Share by Value - 2004
4.6. Grocery Retailing in the Netherlands
4.6.1. The Grocery Retailing Market in the Netherlands
4.6.2. Grocery Retailers Market Share in the Netherlands
Table 9. Netherlands Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.7. Grocery Retailing in Portugal
Table 10. Portugal Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.8. Republic of Ireland
Table 11. Republic of Ireland Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.9. Grocery Retailing in Scandinavia
4.9.1. Grocery Retailing in Denmark Table 12. Denmark Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.9.2. Grocery Retailing in Finland
Table 13. Finland Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.9.3. Grocery Retailing in Norway
Table 14. Norway Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.9.4. Grocery Retailing in Sweden
Table 15. Sweden Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.10. Grocery Retailing in Spain
Table 16. Spain Grocery Retail Market Share by Store Format - 2004
Table 17. Spain Grocery Retailers Market Share by Value - 2004
4.11. Grocery Retailing in Switzerland
Table 18. Switzerland Grocery Market Share by Retailer - 2004
4.12. Grocery Retailing in the United Kingdom
Table 19. UK Retailer Market Share and Penetration Rates (amongst Multiples only) - as at January 2005 Table 20. UK Food Sales Market Share by Retailer - 2004

5. Key Retailers in Western Europe
5.1 Ahold - Netherlands
Table 21. Ahold - Net Sales by region, Net Income and Employees - 2001-2003
5.2. Aldi - Germany
5.3. Asda (Wal-Mart) - UK (USA)
Table 22. Asda Key Figures - 2004
5.4. Auchan - France
Table 23. Auchan - Key Financial Figures - 2002-2003
Table 24. Auchan - Store Portfolio 2004
5.5. Axfood - Sweden
5.6. Carrefour - France
Table 25. Carrefour - Key Financial Figures - 2003-2004
Table 26. Carrefour - Global Store Portfolio - 2004
5.7. Colruyt - Belgium
5.8. Cora - Louis Delhaize - Belgium
Table 27. Louis Delhaize Cie D’Alimentation - Key Financial Figures - 2001-2003
5.9. Delhaize Group - Belgium
Table 28. Delhaize Frères Cie Le Lion - Key Financial Figures - 2001-200332 5.10. Edeka - Germany
5.11. El Corte Inglès - Spain
5.12. E Leclerc - France
5.13. Grupo Eroski - Spain
Table 29. Eroski Sociedad Cooperativa - Key Financial Figures - 2002-2003
5.14. Groupe Casino - France
34 Table 30. Groupe Casino - Key Financial Figures - 2003-2004
5.15. Intermarché - France
5.16. Jeronimo Martins -Portugal
5.17. J Sainsbury plc - UK
Table 31. J Sainsbury plc - Key Financial Figures - 2002/03-2003/04
Table 32. J Sainsbury plc - Store Portfolio - 2003-2004
5.18. Kesco - Finland
Table 33. Kesko Food Sales by Value and by Store Format - 2002-2003 5.19. Lidl & Schwartz - Germany
5.20. Marks & Spencer - UK
Table 34. Marks & Spencer - Key Figures - 2003-2004
5.21. Mercadona - Spain
Table 35. Mercadona - Key Figures - 2003-2004
5.22. Metro AG - Germany
5.23. Migros - Switzerland
5.24. Wm Morrison plc - UK
5.25. Netto (Dansk Supermarked) - Denmark
5.26. Rewe - Germany
5.27. Somerfield plc - UK
Table 36. Somerfield plc - Key Financial Figures - 2002/03-2003/04
Table 37. Somerfield plc - Store Portfolio - 2003-2004
5.28. Système U - France
5.29. Tengelmann - Germany
5.30. Tesco plc - UK
Table 38. Tesco plc - Key Financial Figures - 2002-2004
Table 39. Tesco plc - Store Portfolio - 2002-2004

6. For Further Information

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