Netto (store)
(Germany) Discount with Bite!
(United Kingdom) Home of Smart Shopping (Sweden) Sweden's lowest single unit prices |
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| Private | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Genre | Supermarket |
| Founded | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Headquarters | Køge, Denmark |
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Area served
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Europe |
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Number of employees
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7000 |
| Parent | Dansk Supermarked Group |
| Website | http://www.netto.dk |
Netto is a Danish discount supermarket operating in Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and, via joint venture, in the United Kingdom. In August 2016, the venture came to an end, as cooperation ended with Sainsbury's. Netto is owned by Dansk Supermarked Group, which, in turn, is 19% owned by the Maersk Group. Netto also operates an express version of the store in Denmark, known as "Døgn Netto" ("(24 hour) Day Netto"). Døgn stores offer the same service as regular Netto stores, with longer opening hours and higher prices.
As of November 2014, Netto had stores in the following countries:
The first Netto store opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1981. At first, the items sat in boxes and on pallets, but the chain quickly expanded, and the service level increased as well. Today, there are 442 stores.
In September 1990, Netto started an internationalisation process, and Germany was the second country to gain Netto stores. The first store was opened in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, not long after the Fall of the Wall.
Netto has since expanded in the states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein, and there are an total of more than 340 stores by December 2014.In Germany, a second chain of stores (with over 4100 stores), called Netto Marken-Discount and owned by EDEKA has also been in operation since 1984. The two chains are unrelated to each other.
The first Netto store in Poland opened in Szczecin in 1995. The expansion of the branch is concentrated in the west part of the country from Szczecin to Gdańsk (for example in Police and Stargard Szczeciński), and through the country to Bydgoszcz, Poznań, and Zielona Góra, and the country has 361 stores today.
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