1. Retail and food safety in Western
Europe
Vilnius 26 th September 2012

2. Content
• Types of retail
• Trends in retail
• Food Safety

3. Types of retail
• Discounters (Aldi, Lidl, Asda)
• Full services supermarkets (AH, Carrefour,
Delhaize, Real)
• With sustainable formulas (T‐Gut, Temma,
Biomarkt, Whole‐foods)

4. Top Food retailers in Europe
Turnover in Europe 2011 in Billion €
Rank Retailer Turnover Headquarter
• 1 Carrefour 81,2 France
• 2 Tesco 77,9 UK
• 3 Metro 66,7 Germany
• 4 Schwarz 62 Germany
• 5 Aldi 57,2 Germany
• 6 Rewe 53 Germany
• 7 Edeka 44 Germany
• 8 Auchan 44 France
• 9 ITM 38 France
• 10 E.Leclerc 35 France
e=estimate2011 data are the latest available data for
comparisons

5. Market share retailers NL 2010
Total turnover €52,7 billion
•
• Albert Heijn 31.3%
• Albert Heijn
•
• Superunie 29.9%
• PLUS, Jan Linders, Vomar, Spar, DeKamarkt [2] , Coop, Hoogvliet, Golff, Dirk van de Broek,
Bas van der Heijden, Digros, etc.
•
• Bijeen
• 24.8%
• C1000, Jumbo, Super de Boer
•
• Aldi
• 8.5%
• Aldi
•
• Lidl
• 5.5%
• Lidl

6. Trends in retail
• Increasing of private labels >60%.
• Food safety certificates recognized by the GFSI
is a must.
• Sustainability demands are increasing.
• Out of home is increasing (AH ToGo)
• Health is increasing (klavertje, allergens, less
salt, etc.)

7. Food safety
• Retailers and A‐brand suppliers are
cooperated in the Consumer Food Forum.
• The Global Food Safety initiative (GFSI) is part
of the Consumer Food Forum.
• GFSI recognises several food safety standards
by benchmarking.
• Retailers of the Consumer Food Forum
demand one of the GFSI recognised schemes
for private labels.

8. Law and retailer demands
• Difference
– Law: licence to produce => European food law
– Retail: licence to deliver
– For exporting law is enough
– For selling as a private label, requirements of the
retailer have to be meet.

9. GFSI
• Based in Paris.
• When you are certified against one standard
you do not have to go for another.
• Standards are frequently benchmarked by a
technical committee of producers,
certification bodies, retailers.

10. Members of GFSI

11. Demands for certification

12. Which certifications are accepted?

13. GFSI recognised schemes

14. Recognised schemes for food safety
• BRC (British Retail Consortium)
• IFS (International Food safety Standard)
• FSSC22000
• SQF2000
• Globalgap

15. BRC
• British Retail Consortium
• Founded in the UK
• When you have focus on UK, Netherlands,
Italy and Spain

16. IFS
• International Food Safety Standard.
• Founded in Germany and France.
• When you have focus on Germany, France,
Belgium.

17. FSSC 22000
• Spin off of ISO 22000
• More requirements than ISO 22000
• Mainly asked by a‐brands

18. SQF 2000
• Safe Quality Food
• Founded in Australia, now owned by the
American retailers.
• When you have focus on America and Asia.

19. Globalgap
• Founded by European retailers.
• Owned by European retailers, based in
Cologne.
• Standard for primary produce (growers,
farmers).

20. How do you deal with this in Lithuania
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