2023-09-12 16:19:44
Mercadona has estimated its iInvestment in “the expansion and improvement” of stores in the city of Barcelona since 2017. According to a statement this Tuesday, it is working on the “implementation of an efficient store model” with which it plans to reduce energy consumption by up to 40% compared to a traditional store. Mercadona has around 25% of the distribution market share in Spain.
Since 2017 it has renovated 29 establishments in the Catalan capital and has opened 7 more, and at the end of 2022 it had 43 supermarkets and 2,690 employees. Among the new ones there have been clear openings (such as the stores on Castillejos street, in Turó de la Peira and in the Sagrada Família neighborhood, specifically on Provença street) or supermarkets that replace those that did not adapt to the new model (such as those on Rambla Guipúscoa and Can Batlló, which have replaced those on Pare Manyanet and Sant Pere Abanto streets respectively).
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This Tuesday, the company reopened the store on Andrade Street in the Sant Martí district, after having invested 4 million euros in a “comprehensive renovation” during which more than 70 people worked. In Catalonia as a whole, Mercadona closed last year with 250 stores, three logistics blocks and a warehouse dedicated to online service, and its workforce reached 14,615 employees.
Reorganization of the dome
The Juan Roig chain announced this week the reorganization of its administrative body, which goes from 13 to 8 members. It groups the purchases into two directors, compared to the seven it had until now. Until now, purchasing operations were distributed among seven general directors and are reduced to two; Paco Espert will be in charge of the dry products area and Rafa Berrocal will be in charge of fresh and prepared food. These two executives will now manage Mercadona’s entire relationship with its specialist suppliers. This reorganization is within the framework of the reorganization undertaken with suppliers five years ago. From having more than a hundred companies that it called inter-suppliers, with stable contracts and that also made their own brands ( Hacendado, Delipuls, etc.), it began to look for new commercial relationships to provide more flexibility to its purchasing policy. In this transition, some of those companies whose only or main client was Mercadona, also began to sell to other distribution chains. Mercadona has nearly 3,000 suppliers with the status of specialists or ‘totalers’, who tend to be the leaders in their markets, who are no longer in charge of product categories but of specific products. In times of rising raw material or energy prices, the ability to quickly change suppliers is a key element for distribution chains.
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