Spar v Eurospar

[odyssey06]

What's the difference?
Competitors?
Big brother, little brother?
The products on the shelves seem very similar, I'd be hard pushed to tell you which ones are exactly Spar or Eurospar.

I could google, but asking random trivial questions on AAM is more fun.

 

[Purple]

Same company, different shop formats.

 

[mathepac]

Another Musgraves (Coveney family) {EDIT: Musgrave Family} outlet. SPAR, EuroSPAR, CENTRA, SuperValu. They bought the old SuperQuinn and folded them into SuperValu.

 

[elacsaplau]

The Coveney family?? Is this for real?

 

[mathepac]

Sorry, senior moment there, thanks for pointing it out.

 

[elacsaplau]

No bother - your posts are, invariably, so precise that I thought it was I who was having the senior moment.......and I'm not even especially old!

 

[RedOnion]

Musgraves

Are you sure?
I thought Spar here was owned by BWG foods, and they've nothing to do with Musgrave's?

 

[Purple]

Are you sure?
I thought Spar here was owned by BWG foods, and they've nothing to do with Musgrave's?

That's what i thought too

 

[odyssey06]

So to summarise....
Musgraves - Supervalu, Centra
BWG - Eurospar, Spar, Londis, Mace
? Custcutter

 

[Purple]

? Custcutter

They are foreign owned; based in the People's Republic of Cork.

 

[odyssey06]

They are foreign owned; based in the People's Republic of Cork.

An offshoot of the Tea mafia I guess?