Food distribution

Portugal is the fifth largest coffee producer in Europe according to the EU’s statistical body Eurostat. Last year Italy was the biggest coffee producer with 556,500 tonnes or 25% of total [...]

Os Mosqueteiros, which owns food retail outlets Intermarché, the DIY, building materials and tools retailer Bricomarché, and the Roady auto centres, is to invest around €240 million to 2029 on a [...]

The freshly bagged salad and veg company Vitacress, part of the RAR Group, expects to close 2024 with a turnover of €45 million, up €5 million on 2023. The company sells 15% of its produce [...]

The multi-sector Portuguese company Sonae closed 2023 with a turnover of €8.4Bn, up 9.2% on 2022. Sonae’s EBITDA was a record €990 million. The growth was driven by MC, the owner of Continente, [...]

Food suppliers Aqui é Fresco which has already made a €500 million turnover, is to open 700 stores nationwide. The chain of independent mini-marts and small supermarkets which started 12 years [...]

Portuguese supermarket and food distribution giant Jerónimo Martins says that its business in Colombia should be worth 20% of its total business sales within a decade. The company currently [...]

The French supermarket retailer Carrefour is to sue Sonae in a bid to claw black a number of fines that were slapped on it over civil, labour and tax infractions that were still pendant and [...]

The shares of Portuguese food distribution group Jerónimo Martins, which holds supermarkets such as Pingo Doce in Portugal and Biedronka in Poland, have been changing hands for record amounts [...]

Despite a slowdown in inflation on the prices of goods and services in Portugal, food prices continue to be high at 23% above the average price levels of 2021. According to Portugal’s national [...]

Poland’s regulator has fined the Portuguese supermarket giant Jerónimo Martins, which operates in the country under the Biedronka trademark, €36 million for “deceptive advertising”. The consumer [...]