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Royal Ahold Company  

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  • A Dutch-listed company, Royal Ahold NV, was first established by Albert Heijn as a small grocery store in 1887 in Zandaam, the Netherlands. By 2005, it was one of the world's leading food providers with more than 240,000 employees, a customer base of more than 300,000 independent and chain businesses, and sales of more than 44 billion euros in 2005. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Royal Ahold Company]

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