Maxima Grupė UAB is a Lithuanian group of retail chain companies operating in Lithuania,

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and

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. It is the largest Lithuanian capital company and the largest employer in the

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. , Maxima has more than 1300 stores in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Bulgaria. Each store offers between 3,000 and 65,000 brands, depending on the size of the store. The group employs more than 40,000 people. Its main headquarters are in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional u ...

, Lithuania.

History

Three Maxima stores were opened in Vilnius in 1992. At the end of 2011, Maxima Group bought the

Aldik Aldik is a regional retail chain of grocery supermarkets located in the Lublin and Masovian Voivodeship. The headquarters of the supermarket is located in Lublin. The Aldik retail chain company holds and operates the regional Lublin bakery " ...

supermarket chain in Poland with 24 stores. Between 2012 and 2020, Maxima also operated a division in

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, under the names SuperSol (supermarkets) and Cash Diplo ( Cash & Carry). It mainly operated in

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and

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. It was acquired in 2012 to the DinoSol group, and SuperSol was sold in 2020 to

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, while Cash Diplo was subject to a corporate takeover in 2021. In 2019, "Aldik" and " Stokrotka" retail chains are merged and continue to operate under one name, "Stokrotka".

Statistics

Countries with Maxima branches

Maxima LT

Maxima LT is the largest part of Maxima Group. Maxima stores in Lithuania hold 70% of the total retail market. In 2011, GILD Bankers announced that Maxima Group was the most valuable company. Maxima LT employs 17,484 people (as of July 2016), and operates 237 stores.

Maxima LT CEOs

* 2008–2011: Gintaras Jasinskas * 2011–2014: Arūnas Zimnickas * 2014–2017: Žydrūnas Valkeris * 2017–2020: Kristina Meidė * 2020 present: Jolanta Bivainytė

Maxima Latvija

On 21 November 2013, the roof of a Maxima XX store in

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collapsed, killing 54 people and seriously injuring many more. So far it is not known what caused the disaster, but the police are investigating three scenarios: that there was an error in architectural design and authorities overseeing planning had been negligent; that the cause was related to the initial building procedure; and that it was caused by the current construction of the green roof.

Aldik

Maxima Group operated in Poland under the name of

, to 2018, when these stores started changing to Stokrotka after Maxima Group became main shareholder of Poland's EMPERIA HOLDING S.A. which operates the Stokrotka name.

SuperSol

The Spanish supermarket chain SuperSol was owned by Maxima between 2012 and 2020. The supermarket had a presence in the Madrid province (including

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, Guadalajara and Toledo in the metropolitan area) and Southern Spain (Andalusia,

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and

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). This Spanish arm also included Cash Diplo as a Cash & Carry division. Cash Diplo was subject to a corporate takeover in 2021.

References

External links

Maxima LithuaniaMaxima webpage in English
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maxima Supermarket Supermarkets of Lithuania Supermarkets of Estonia Supermarkets of Latvia Supermarkets of Bulgaria Supermarkets of Spain Companies based in Vilnius 1992 establishments in Lithuania Retail companies established in 1992 Lithuanian brands