1999
- Ahold acquires 150 supermarkets in seven companies in Madrid, southern Spain and Catalonia
- The company announces a partnership with ICA Group, Scandinavia's leading food retailer
- Ahold establishes a European Competence Center to share know-how and maximize synergies across different platforms
- La Fragua, Central America's leading food retailer, joins forces with Ahold in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras
- Ahold restructures its activities in Asia, focusing on Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
1998
- Ahold acquires Giant Food Inc.
- Velox Retail Holdings and Ahold form partnership to acquire a majority stake in Disco, Argentine supermarket chain and Santa Isabel in Chile, Peru and Paraguay
- ETOS, Ahold's chain of health and beautycare stores, acquires 'Le Drugstore'
- Company options start trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange
- Ahold opened the first Hypernova hypermarket in Prague, the Czech Republic
1997
- Ahold's Brazilian partner Bompreço acquires SuperMar
- The company's position in the Dutch institutional food market strengthens as GVA, its food supply company, acquires Van der Spek
- Ahold opened the first hypermarket - Allkauf - in Poland
1996
- Ahold acquires U.S. supermarket chain Stop & Stop in New England
- Local partners develop food retail activities with Ahold in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Brazil, Spain and Poland
1995
- The company acquires Mayfair in New York's metropolitan area
- Albert Heijn introduces new distribution
system, guaranteeing store delivery within 18
hours
1994
- Ahold acquires Red Food Stores' 55 U.S.
supermarkets in Tennessee and Georgia
1993
- Ahold stock trades for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as listing in Amsterdam, Zurich and Brussels
- Cees van der Hoeven succeeds Pierre Everaert as Ahold President and CEO
1992
- Ahold and its Portugese partner form Jerónimo Martins Retail (JMR)
1991
- Ahold acquires Tops Markets Inc. in Williamsville, NY
- Ahold opens Mana, its first wholly-owned supermarket chain in Czechoslavakia. The chain is now known as Albert
1990
- The fall of communism in central Europe enables Ahold to establish a holding company in the then Czechoslovakia
