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Top 20 retail chains in Belgium in 2020, by number of stores

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January 2020

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Belgium

Survey time period

2020

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Locatus registers a retail outlet as a retail chain when "there are more than 7 outlets of the same brand worldwide, or when the business has more than a hundred employees (and less than 7 branches)"

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The two leading retail chains in Belgium are both of foreign origin: discount supermarket ALDI was founded in Germany, and Carrefour comes from neighboring France. The first Belgian retailer, chocolatier Leonidas, is ranked third, and butchery Renmans comes in fifth place. The largest retailer in the country, ALDI, also tops the list of leading supermarkets in Belgium.

 Discount supermarkets in Belgium 

  In the last decade, the number of discount supermarkets in Belgium increased, peaking in 2011 at *** stores, before decreasing again slightly. In 2016, there were *** discount supermarkets in the country, with the majority belonging to the ALDI chain. In the same period, the market share of hard discounters also grew, from ** percent in 2006 to **** in 2016.

Aldi in the Netherlands

  ALDI’s expansion abroad is certainly not limited to Belgium. To the north of Belgium, there were nearly ***ALDI stores in the Netherlands. After peaking in 2016 at *** stores, in 2017 the number of ALDI supermarkets decreased quite significantly, to just over ***. Despite this temporary setback, this number still meant a ninth place in the ranking of leading retailers in the Netherlands.