Bim (company)

Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş (or mostly called BİM) is a Turkish retail company, known for offering a limited range of basic food items and consumer goods at competitive prices. Bim were the pioneers of this discount store model in Turkey.

Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş
Anonim Şirket
Traded asBİST: BIMAS
ISINTREBIMM00018 
IndustryDiscount store
Founded1995
Headquarters
Abdurrahman Gazi Mah. Ebubekir Cad. No: 73 Sancaktepe, Istanbul
,
Turkey
Number of locations
7260 shop (Turkey)[1]
478 shop (Morocco)[2][3]
300 shop (Egypt)[4]
Area served
Turkey - Morocco - Egypt
Key people
Mustafa Latif Topbaş (Chairman)
Productsbasic food items and consumer goods
20.072 million TL (2016)[5]
Number of employees
37,439 (2016)[6]
Websitebim.com.tr

Business and activities

Bim A.Ş. began in 1995 with 21 stores and by the end of 2015[7] had reached 4972 stores in Turkey, making Bim the country's leading food retailer.[8] Bim does not offer franchises, all stores are owned and operated by the company itself.[9] As well as Turkey there are 475 stores in Morocco[7] and 185 in Egypt.[7] In 2016 Bim A.Ş. planned to open 600 new supermarkets in Turkey, 100 in Egypt and 80 in Morocco[10] where the group expected 2 billions dirhams sales during the same year.[10] In 2005 44.12% of its shares were offered to the public.[11]

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References
  1. "Bim A.Ş." www.bim.com.tr.
  2. "BİM Maroc". www.bim.ma.
  3. "BİM, Fas ve Mısır'da büyümeye devam edecek". Dünya Gazetesi. June 30, 2015.
  4. "بيم مصر". www.bim.eg.
  5. "Report" (PDF). www.bim.com.tr. 2015. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  6. "Şirket çalışanlarının sayısı" (PDF).
  7. BİM Records Growth Of 21% For 2015European Supermarket Magazine Retrieved 2016-03-13
  8. "Bim A.Ş. | About Us". english.bim.com.tr. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  9. "Bim A.Ş. | Frequently Asked Questions". english.bim.com.tr. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  10. "BIM compte ouvrir 80 nouveaux magasins au Maroc". Challenge.ma. March 11, 2016.
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2014-06-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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