Spar (supermarket)

SPAR is a supermarket chain, founded in 1932 in Zegwaart (now Zoetermeer) by Adriaan van Well.



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[hide] *Netherlands 1  ==Netherlands[ Edit] == Currently, SPAR in Netherlands about 260 shops. Also today, the smaller shops of Thoughtful and neutral service guarantees the number of shops to SPAR shops in Netherlands Holding B.V. on about 500. In Netherlands is SPAR for 45% of Sparrowhawk Group (also owner of PLUS) and Sligro Food Group for 45% of the remaining 10% of the shares is owned by the independent Spar entrepreneurs. SPAR is connected to the purchasing Association Super Union.
 * Belgium 2
 * Rest of the world 3
 * 4 Brands
 * the name 5
 * 6 Trivia
 * 7 external links

The Empire is going to SPAR in neighborhoods where supermarkets are under pressure by shrink help with bringing together public and private parties so that facilities remain buoyant as much as possible. [1] ==Belgium[ Edit] == In Belgium, the Spar brand used by two licence holders. Since 1985 is Lacey N.V. licensee of the Spar-logo for Belgium. There is a second company in 2003 have been added, however, that the license on the brand in Belgium and Luxembourg has largely taken over, namely the supermarket chain Colruyt, through its current subsidiary SPAR Retail.Campbell wanted to strengthen its position in this smaller convenience stores operated by independent entrepreneurs, where competitors Delhaize and Carrefour were developed. The chain is known for its ' lowest prijzen'-politics and tries this strategy now also out on the terms of Spar convenience stores.

The other licensee, Lambrechts NV, not linked to Colruyt, nor to its low rise step politics. For the consumer the difference on the outside of a SPAR-Supermarkt belonging to the one or the other license holder will not be visible. ==Rest of the world[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2005, a first store opened in the Chinese place Weihai, with an area of 8000 square meters (a shop in Netherlands is on average about 1500 square meters). In Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic also has a pro shop, next to SPAR supermarkets chain under the name Hervis. In a number of countries (including Austria) one can also find EUROSPAR and INTERSPARwinkels. EUROSPAR stores have a sale being refurbished by 1000-2500 m<sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">2. Intersparwinkels are counting to the hypermarkets. They have a sale being refurbished by 2500-6000 m<sup len="1" style="line-height:1;">2  and an assortment of 45,000 articles, of which approximately 20,000 food items.

<p lang="en" len="63" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The total number of stores in 2010 amounts to 12.456 in 34 countries. ==Brands<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="29" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Currently does FIR:

<p len="4" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> ==The name<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Usually it is said that the Spar is an abbreviation of the motto "All Benefit By Working Together regularly". In that case, the definite article so an essential part of the name.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  according to others the name "Fir" is chosen at random, because the founder of Well had signed a spruce tree on the minutes of the founding meeting, or for any other reason, and in that case, the motto at the name figured out,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  a backronym.
 * Caring: a nationwide supermarket chain in Netherlands
 * Caring Super on holiday!: a Dutch supermarket chain which often can be found at campsites and bungalow.
 * EUROSPAR (Europe) and SUPER SPAR (Africa): these are medium-sized supermarkets. They are designed to fit into a niche between the local shops and traditional supermarkets.
 * INTERSPAR hypermarkets : these are
 * SPAR Express (KWIKSPAR in Africa): this is the smallest shop type. They are designed for smaller locations and service stations

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Then there is also the word in Germany came Spar-shops "The" expired. In some countries, including Italy, people continue to use the name DESPAR.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the German suggests another meaning: the name FIR Savings. Yet even there, the chain used the same logo with a green spruce tree circled (although such a tree in the Fichte ' German ' is called). The current logo is designed in 1968 by Raymond Loewy.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At some stores is a liquor store named Le Sapin. That is the French translation of The Fir. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * On 16 May 2009, on the site of the genesis of the SPAR (Dorpsstraat Zoetermeer) on the initiative of the residents come a work of art to commemorate the start of the SPAR. The work of art is created by Vera Zaccara and is on display in the entryway next to village street 178.
 * Every year in the month of February a SPAR-entrepreneurs fair.
 * P D bucket & Rooie Rinus had it in their songs regularly about "peanut the FIR".
 * Also The Undertones do groceries at the FIR (Mars Bars in the song).
 * In Leiderdorp is the SPAR-museum established.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]