Consumer The Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo will see long-term potential for more than 100 stores in Flanders. The company confirming reporting in the journal of Gondola. The first supermarket in november open in the province Pelt.
Jumbo was already known that this year three stores expected to open in Flanders. In 2020, there would be a fifteen to recover, says Peter Isaac, managing director of Jumbo Belgium, in a conversation with the Gondola. “When we go to Belgium and Flanders, we mean it,” he says. “We are confident that we are in a beautiful place able to conquer the Belgian market.”
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The statements made by Jumbo in the Netherlands. “Our introduction on the Belgian market will step by step,” adds a spokeswoman. “But in the long term see a Jumbo indeed, the potential to over one hundred stores in the whole of Belgium to open. It is too early, however, there is a concrete time schedule to associate.” the
Jumbo would also are three formulas to our country want to come: Jumbo supermarket, Foodmarkt and Jumbo City. And it sees long-term opportunities in Brussels and Wallonia, but those plans are far from concrete.
Jumbo after Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands. The group has been working for some time on an entry on the Belgian market. It has a separate organization set up under the name Jumbo Belgium and with Isaac a big name attracted to the extension lead in the right direction: Isaac is an ex-ceo of Lidl Belgium.