Austria SPAR International AG

SPAR
Austria
SPAR AG is a 100% privately-owned
Austrian company. The stocks of the
corporation are found predominantly
in the possession of those families
who joined in with their firms to form
the corporation in 1970. The shares
are not traded on the stock market.
SPAR Austria’s core business is the
wholesale and retail trade market
with the food and non-food staples of
daily life. In sales, SPAR operates
with a two-fold market cultivation:
besides SPAR’s own branches,
approximately half of the SPAR markets
today are run by independent
SPAR retailers. SPAR interacts with
them as their wholesale partner. The
individual SPAR store formats are
categorized according to sales area
size. This extends from SPAR
Gourmet and the SPAR market to the
SPAR supermarket and the EURO-
SPAR store, on to the INTERSPAR
hypermarket and Maximarkt.
> Die Vision
„Die Vision der SPAR Österreich-Gruppe ist die
Entwicklung einer nachhaltig erfolgreichen
mitteleuropäischen Handelsorganisation.“
> The Vision
„The vision of SPAR Austria is the
development of a sustainably successful
Central European retail company.“
SPAR betreibt die erfolgreichsten Shopping-Center in Österreich,
z. B. den preisgekrönten EUROPARK in Salzburg.
SPAR manages the most successful shopping centers in Austria
like the prize-winning EUROPARK in Salzburg.
SPAR AG maintains its own production
companies in the area of meat
and sausage specialties, coffee and
tea as well as wine and spirits. In
addition, SPAR is Austria’s largest
developer, builder and manager of
shopping centers.
The Success of an Idea
SPAR Austria was able to surge
forward strongly in the past years
due to dynamic development and
expansion. With around 1,500 locations
and sales returns of € 4.66
Billion (2006 figures), SPAR Austria
achieved a market share of 27.6%
(incl. discount, according to Nielsen).
Präs.
Dr. Gerhard Drexel,
Vorstandsvorsitzender
SPAR Österreich
Pres.
Dr. Gerhard Drexel
Chief Executive
SPAR Austria
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