Spar Innovation Secures Success

Spar is one the world's largest and most prolific associations of grocery retailers, with group annual sales for 2005 amounting to EUR27,920mn (2005 is currently the last year for which a full set of retail sales figures are available for all of Spar's national operations, although some of Spar's national operations, such as Austria and the Netherlands, have begun to disclose end-of-2006 figures). Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932 as a voluntary chain of independent grocers under the name 'De Spar'. De Spar is an acronym for the Dutch sentence 'door eendrachtig samenwerken profiteren allen regelmatig', which in

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