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| | Ahold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The company's origins can be traced back to 27 May 1887 with the founding of the Albert Heijn grocery store in Oostzaan, the Netherlands. |
| | The grocery chain expanded through the first half of the 20th century, and went public in 1948. |
| | The company expanded internationally starting in the mid 1970s, eventually buying chains in Spain, the United States, and Portugal, and accelerating its acquisitions in the latter half of the 1990s in markets in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. |
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