Welcome to Food Retail World !
After a lengthy hiatus I am working on updating and rebuilding the site to offer even more links and information and should have everything complete early into 2012. If you have any problems or difficulties with anything on the site, please be patient. It will all come together soon.
- As of January 25th, 2012 I have updated all of the links for food retailers alphabetized by country. There are now over 2300 links from 137 countries around the world.
**NOTE : Even though there have been a number of changes via acquisitions, restructuring and the like around the world, I am opting to keep all of my links up that may redirect to the new site or in some cases no longer work where visitors here often look for the name they know or have heard of.(For example, in Australia, 5 Star Supermarkets redirects to SPAR Australia.) Wherever possible I've indicated sites which are no longer active.
All links included on this site have worked for me which is how I get their logos. Some European, African and Asian websites have been difficult to reach at times due to server connection problems so some sites may require a couple of attempts.
OTHER UPDATES COMING VERY SOON :
- There will be updates to the Leading Retailers page where I hope to do a more up to date ranking of food retailers globally and by country or region wherever possible. If you have any FREE information you would like to share please feel free to contact me at the e-mail below.
- I will be adding more links to the News/Info Links page that will include more resources and publications from some non-English speaking countries that I have found useful or interesting and are Google Translate friendly.
- In order to reduce the amount of space the website takes up on the servers so I am able to add more content elsewhere, I will have to scale back the number of Annual Reports I am able to include on the site but will provide the most up to date reports for the companies I am able to keep and wherever possible provide links to the reports for those I'm not able to keep.
With that, there is a possibility I will be including ads on the site to fund its growth. As mentioned I am limited to what I can make available where my account has just 1gb of storage space available to me on the servers. Now that the site is receiving over 3,000 visits each month, the amount of bandwith available is also being stretched close to its limits and may result in downtime at month ends as a result.
**NOTE : If you have a food retail, supermarket / hypermarket related business that you would like to promote on this site, please feel free to contact me with any proposal and information you have. Please keep in mind that this site is done out of passion for the industry and I am only willing to consider including things that fall within the scope of the Food Retail World.
I am always open to including links to other sites free of charge but will not do so blindly. I have to have some knowledge or example of what you offer or your site should be comprehensive enough that I believe it will be of value to include as a resource to visitors to Food Retail World.
All THAT AND A WHOLE LOT MORE COMING SOON...STAY TUNED !
This site is always in development and I welcome any comments or feedback you may have. If you have links or free information available that you would like to see here, please contact me at stephenfoster@foodretailworld.com and I would be more than happy to add them to this site.
Thanks for visiting !
Stephen Foster