スペインでのドイツ資本の安売スーパーのリディルは、経営困難にも関らず店舗拡大を目指し2014年には10'000人の従業員を雇用
Lidl, la expansión sin fronteras
El grupo alemán aumentará el empleo en 2014 hasta los 10.000 trabajadores
Vidal Maté Madrid 22 DIC 2013 - 00:00 CET
Lidl, borderless expansion
The German group will increase employment in 2014 to 10,000 workers
Vidal Madrid killed 22 DIC 2013 - 00:00 CET
He landed in Spain in 1994. Despite the steady increase in sales, until 2003 the group failed the first positive result : 13.3 million euros. There were also other Germans who came to the Spanish market and either threw in the towel or lowered their bid to grow in this market . Lidl , despite those negative results , decided to stay and insist a permanent policy of expansion and investment , true to its local model , to achieve the nearly three million customers a week and now has a market share in the retail market higher 3% .
In the Spanish segment of the mass distribution, since the seventies have fought for this space three models and three different nationalities. The French, with Carrefour and Auchan, the hypermarket segment , where they maintain leadership. The Dutch tried and failed with Ahold in the supermarket segment , part of whose establishments remain in the structure of the tree , and the Germans , betting shops Superdescuento with groups such as Lidl , Aldi or Tengelman ( Plus ) in competition primarily for the Day group and partly to Mercadona. This is where Lidl has been better placed as German .
Lidl is a subsidiary of the German and belonging to Schwarz Group, one of the largest retail groups in the world matrix. Since his arrival in Spain 20 years ago , the group has not developed a plan to set date , or has had a marked advance objectives. However, its investment policy in terms of the opportunities of the moment has always followed. And , according to officials of the group, will continue in the future.
The Spanish offer has gone from representing 38 % in 2008 to 56 % in 2012
This strategy has led stockings investments in recent years to 120 million euros and shops opening up to the current 540 . And get a total turnover of over 2,300 million euros from sales on the domestic market and exports, and especially sales increased at a rate of 5% since 2007, compared to the stagnation or decline of its competitors.
Installed with the economic crisis on the economies of households with Lidl has raced downwind with its supply model , under the slogan " Quality is not expensive." All this has meant that while the other models the distribution of adjustments were made on the premises , prices are down and opening policy , was concluded , the German company has closed this year with the opening of 14 stores and has followed the remodeling process of the rest. Their investments have gone from 120 to 160 million euros, and for 2014 includes an increase of their templates to get 400 people to 10,000 employees.
Despite the initial difficulties to penetrate with favorable results in Spain , Lidl makers consider the model that has worked with this type of offer , which does not prevent , progressively fastened , begin to incorporate changes in both supply and in the presentation of products and the origin thereof , as the national weight gain over imported origin , especially Germans, one of the negative charges of the group to many consumers.
Lidl bet and maintains its strategy of locating facilities in neighborhoods , glued to consumers , with average areas between 800 and 1,200 meters, based on internal growth and its own stores .
Own brands account for 80% of the references that the company sells
Under the slogan "Quality is not expensive ," the general strategy of this type of establishment is hiding. Lidl policy of the advantage of a centralized purchasing , where they have their weight in gold 10,000 stores group in Europe. In the German firm, private labels account for 80% compared to 20% of the most expensive manufacturer brands. The offer is specified in a fixed range 1,200 references , to which more than 2,000 variables and added nearly 3,000 additional products bazaar throughout the year, few compared to other distribution formats .
As part of this strategy, the group went from the beginning by austere establishments , eliminating all kinds of full costs not these add value to products. A policy that is applied to the logistics with the products , which are removed as far as possible or packaging weight is given to the bulk .
Keeping the model , the group has a new strategy to incorporate their new offers local fresh produce ( fruits, meats , pastries , etc.) with a touch of class .
Since his arrival in Spain , Lidl has had linked to Germany , both for its provenance and ownership by the origin of some of their products image . Today that image remains , but the group has made significant process integration with national productions. In its offer continue to highlight products made from Germany, especially in dairy products , desserts or other pork . However, it emphasizes responsible for Lidl, has made a great effort to give input in store for Spanish products .
According to the firm , the Spanish references accounted for 38 % of those sold by the group in 2008, while today that percentage has risen to 56%. The number of Spanish deals with regional suppliers , if they are small producers, or state level, if they are larger , has happened in the last five years from 230 to 368, with sales of 2,500 million euros. In this same line of support for greater españolización image of the group, responsible for Lidl provide other information . Stockings on sales of about 2,300 million euros , exports to the rest of the local group in Europe amounted to 1,100 million compared to imports of between 650 and 750 million euros.
Leading exporter of fruit and vegetables
According to the provisioning policy for Lidl to purchase the best product at the cheapest price for the whole chain , the German firm has become the first buyer of Spanish fruit and vegetable market, both for your needs on the domestic market and, above all , for the supply of over 10,000 available shops in 26 European countries.
On a Spanish average production of about 16 million tonnes , purchases made last year by the supermarket chain , reached 960,000 tons , representing 6% of the total bid , for 910 million euros. These purchases represent a turnover superior to that used by central purchasing Carrefour and Edeka , the first German retailer. Of this, sales in foreign markets accounted for 710 million euros and the rest was for the domestic market .
For those responsible for Lidl , the group is holding an important supportive role of the Spanish exports of fruit and vegetables by purchasing a policy aggregate for all branches of the chain, but decentralized matrix . With this strategy , Lidl plays a key role for about 300 fruit and vegetable cooperatives to market their products in supermarkets in more than twenty countries through an agent who brings the offer , avoiding costs associated with internationalization, the use own logistics network of the German group .
Along with fruits and vegetables , with the same system , the chain is a vehicle for exporting other products like olives Cazorla , popcorn or cookies Gullón marie .
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