AMS Sourcing - Creating synergy

Shareholders and members

• Loblaw

  Loblaw is a Canadian largest supermarket chain that provides grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, apparel, general merchandise, financial services, wireless mobile products and services.

  The Retail segment consists primarily of corporate stores (547), franchise-owned retail food (551), and associate-owned drug stores (1,346), totaling a total of 2,444 stores operated by the company in 2022. Loblaw has 14 distribution centers spread across Canada.

  Loblaws offers a grocery pickup service called PC Express (customers can order groceries online and select a time slot to pick up their orders) and a rewards program PC Optimum which allows customers to accumulate points from purchases. Loblaws’ main store brands include “President Choice, PC Black Label, PC Black Organics, No Name, Blue Menu, Farmer’s Market, and Life Brand”.

• Musgrave

  Musgrave is the leading food retailer and wholesaler on the island of Ireland, and one of Ireland’s longest-running family businesses, founded in 1876 by brothers Thomas and Stuart Musgrave. The business partners with local entrepreneurs to build market leading brands. Through its brands SuperValu, Centra, Daybreak, Frank and Honest and MarketPlace, the business feeds 1 in 3 people in Ireland every day and supports more than 41,000 jobs in over 1,500 stores. At Musgrave their values and purpose challenge and inspire them to do the right thing, with a focus on practising good, fair and honest business, with a commitment to profit with purpose and working relentlessly to innovate and lead the way in their market. 

• Hagar hf.

  Hagar is a leading retailer in the Icelandic market and operates 38 stores within 2 grocery retail chains as well as 2 warehouses. Furthermore Hagar operates through Olís 22 gasstations throughout the country, as well as 45 ÓB stations. Hagar’s companies are all operated as individual businesses and therefore have diverse operating models and cultures.

  Hagar’s core activities are in the grocery sector and the company owns two of the country’s largest grocery retailers, Hagkaup and Bónus, as well as support service companies in the fields of purchasing and distribution. In addition, Hagar operates a specialty product division within Hagkaup and the ZARA clothing store. Hagar is a loyal Euro Shopper Distributor.

  For more information visit Hagar´s webiste at https://www.hagar.is/en/companies/.

• Morrisons

  Morrisons is one of the UK’s biggest food retailers, with an annual turnover exceeding £14 billion ex fuel. Morrisons has 500 large supermarket sized stores and has expanded its convenience store offering with around 1,600 Morrisons Daily locations and plans to reach 2,000 stores by the end of 2025. They are the only British supermarket to own its food processing sites and abattoirs. This unique approach allows the chain to source and process half of the fresh food it sells, providing unrivalled control over provenance, quality, and freshness.
  Morrisons is committed to supporting British farming, it is British farming’s number 1 customer. The company’s Market Street counters, a legacy of Sir Ken Morrison, remain a customer favorite, offering expertly prepared goods and advice from skilled specialists in Butchery, Fishmongery, Bakery and Deli. Morrisons has more skilled colleagues preparing fresh food in-store than any other retailer, with over 5,000 trained craftspeople,
  Morrisons sells via a variety of different online channels including its own Morrisons.com website. Partnerships with Amazon, Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Go Puff meeting all digital customer needs. Building on these partnerships means customers who use the various online platforms have the opportunity to receive their delivery in as little as 20 minutes.
  Morrisons core purpose: To make and provide food we’re all proud of, where everyone’s effort is worthwhile, so more and more people can afford to enjoy eating well.

  For more information, visit the Morrisons website at http://www.morrisons.co.uk.

• Salling Group

  Salling Group operates in more than 1,700 stores in three countries, runs several successful Danish e-commerce businesses and employs approximately 59,000 people internationally. Each week more than 12 million customers visit its stores to buy groceries and other everyday essentials, along with a wide range of nonfood products online.

  Salling Group is 100% owned by the Salling Foundations. This means that all profit goes to two purposes: investments in the company and donations to good causes.

  For more information, visit the Salling Group website at https://sallinggroup.com

• ICA

  ICA Gruppen AB is a leading retail company with focus on food and health. The Group includes ICA Sweden and Rimi Baltic, which mainly conduct grocery retail, ICA Real Estate, which owns and manages properties, ICA Bank, which offers financial services, and Apotek Hjärtat, which conducts pharmacy business.

  For more information see http://www.icagruppen.se

   

• Kesko

  Kesko is a key operator in the Finnish grocery trade. The aim is to have the highest-quality food stores in Finland where customers are served by about 900 K-food retailers running their locally tailored stores. Kesko grocery trade’s own brands enjoy high brand awareness among Finnish consumers. Pirkka has over 2600 products in almost every category and has a brand recognition level of nearly 90%. K-food stores also carry ca 250 K-Menu products, for price conscious customers. Low price is the key competitive advantage with this brand. Kesko Corporation and K-retailers form the K-Group, whose retail sales totalled about €16 billion (VAT 0%) in 2023. The K-Group employs around 45,000 people.

  For more information, visit the Kesko Food website at http://www.kesko.fi.

• Booker

  Booker Group is the UK’s leading food & drink wholesaler with sales of c.£5bn from over 200 branches nationwide.  The Group consists of Booker Wholesale, Makro, Booker Direct, Chef Direct, Ritter-Courivaud, Classic Drinks and Booker Retail Partners.  Booker operate four symbol groups which are Premier, Londis, Budgens and Family Shopper, giving suppliers a route to market to over 5,000 disciplined independent retailers.  All of these symbol groups stock the Euro Shopper brand.  Booker launched Euro Shopper in the UK in 2007 and the brand has continued to go from strength to strength.  Booker’s commitment to its customers is ‘choice up, prices down and better service’.

  For more information, visit the Booker website at http://www.booker.co.uk.

• Ahold Delhaize

  Ahold Delhaize’s family of great local brands serves more than 70 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these 17 brands employ more than 390,000 associates, and operate around 9,400 supermarkets, convenience stores and specialty stores. Our group includes the top online retailer in the Benelux, bol, and the food retail brands in the U.S. and the Benelux lead in online grocery. Ahold Delhaize brands are at the forefront of sustainable retailing, supporting local communities and helping customers make healthier choices.

  For more information, visit the Ahold Delhaize website at https://www.aholddelhaize.com/