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SPAR Austria
SPAR supermarket

SPAR AG is a 100% privately-owned Austrian company. The stocks of the corporation are found predominantly in the possession of those families who joined in with their firms to form the corporation in 1970. The shares are not traded on the stock market.

SPAR Austria’s core business is the wholesale and retail trade market with the food and non-food staples of daily life. In sales, SPAR operates with a two-fold market cultivation: besides SPAR’s own branches, approximately half of the SPAR markets today are run by independent SPAR retailers. SPAR interacts with them as their wholesale partner.
Fruit & Vegetables department

The individual SPAR store formats are categorized according to sales area size. This extends from SPAR Gourmet and the SPAR market to the SPAR supermarket and the EUROSPAR store, on to the INTERSPAR hypermarket and Maximarkt.

SPAR AG maintains its own production companies in the area of meat and sausage specialties, coffee and tea   as well as wine and spirits. In addition, SPAR is Austria’s largest developer, builder and manager of shopping centers.

SPAR Austria was able to surge forward strongly in the past years due to dynamic development and expansion.

For details please see Data & Facts 2009 >> 
Employees

Biggest private Employer

With more than 34'500 employees SPAR is the biggest private employer in Austria.

Among those are around 2'600 apprentices. For this reason SPAR is the biggest apprentice trainer in Austria.