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The collaboration between Dutch chains Jumbo and Hema, which they had already announced in November last year, started this morning with a festive ceremony in the Jumbo Food Market in Breda. Other stores in the Netherlands and Belgium will follow soon.

The deal with Unilever at the end of 2018 has been lucrative for The Vegetarian Butcher. The founder, Jaap Korteweg, who is now a consultant, expects the company to annually double its turnover in the coming years.  

Soon after revealing they would start working together closely, Dutch chains Jumbo and Hema have reached an agreement on an intensified commercial cooperation in the Benelux. Over the next three years, Jumbo will take over the leases of fifteen Hema branches in major Dutch cities, and those of two Belgian Hema stores. In addition, all Jumbo supermarkets will start to sell Hema products.

French chains Carrefour and Fnac Darty are going to move in together: the electronics retailer is going to open thirty stores in French Carrefour hypermarkets. Will Belgium follow suit?

Jumbo and Hema are going to cooperate closely in Belgium and the Netherlands. Both Dutch companies think they can profit from eachother's strengths

Ahold Delhaize, in cooperation with Hanshow Technology, is to equip all of its European stores with electronic shelf-edge labelling. Both companies also want to develop new digital 'in-store' services and explore possibilities together.

Fashion label Stella McCartney has closed a deal with French luxury house LVMH to accelerate its development. Interesting detail: only last year, Stella McCartney left Kering, another French luxury concern.