Bart’s Retail
BusinessBart’s Retail is a retail and consumer foodservice company with today some 190 outlets throughout The Netherlands selling breads, sandwiches and snacks. Consumers are served through the Bakker Bart (Bart’s Bakery) franchise concept, which generates 75% of its revenues. Retail sales value amounts to more than €100 million. The remaining 25% of sales is generated through trade customers. The company has a leasehold production facility in Beuningen, The Netherlands. Bart’s Retail employs around 200 employees.
Development
In September 2005 the company was acquired in a management buy-out by GEM Benelux and the management of Bart’s Retail. The strategy plan for Bart’s Retail includes plans to grow the Bakker Bart format from 140 outlets at the time of acquisition to over 200 profitable outlets. The company also operates a concept geared towards food service and away from the traditional bakery format, through the “Bart” concept. In the spring of 2009 Bart’s Retail opened its first outlets in Antwerp, Belgium.
