List of supermarket chains in Belgium
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delhaize | 140 | supermarket |  Ahold Delhaize |
| Delhaize City | 18 | convenience | |
| AD Delhaize | 225 | supermarket | |
| Albert Heijn[2] | 40 | supermarket | |
| Aldi | 380 | discount |  Aldi |
| Carrefour Market | 370 | supermarket |  Carrefour |
| Carrefour Express | 235 | convenience | |
| Carrefour | 30 | hypermarket | |
| Carrefour Planet | 15 | hypermarket | |
| Carrefour GB | 58 | supermarket | |
| Bio-Planet | 20 | whole foods market |  Colruyt Group |
| Colruyt | ~220 | supermarket | |
| Okay | 123 | convenience | |
| Intermarché Contact | 82 | convenience | Les Mousquetaires |
| Intermarché Super | supermarket | ||
| Lidl | ~300 | discount | Lidl |
| Cora | 7 | hypermarket | Louis Delhaize Group |
| Match | ~60 | supermarket | |
| Smatch | discount | ||
| Makro | 12 | cash & carry | Metro AG |
| SPAR | ~300 | supermarket | SPAR |
Defunct supermarket chains
- Écomarché (owned by Les Mousquetaires, now rebranded to Intermarché Contact or Intermarché Super[3])
- 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:[citation needed]
- Maxi GB (now: Carrefour)
- Super GB (now: Carrefour Market or Carrefour GB)
- 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[citation needed])
- Profi (was a discount store owned by Louis Delhaize Group, rebranded to Smatch supermarket)
- Unic (rebranded to Super GB and later Carrefour GB.)
