Markant Group

Headquartered in Switzerland, Markant group is the largest trading and service cooperation in the food trade in Europe. Markant Group was founded in 1950. The cooperation regroups 150 retailers mainly supermarket and hypermarket groups. Markant Group has expanded over the years and is now present in Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. 

Overall Markant organized with its specialized subsidiaries merchandise served  more than 20,000 outlets in the food distribution business.

1000 people are employed at Markant Group. 

Markant Group now works with 150 retail partners including (but not limited to) Budni, Bako, Agravis, Conway, Chef Culinar, Globus, etc.

Markant group works in partnership with 14000 industrial companies that manufacture food, personal care, household products, etc.

In addition to supplying their partners with brands, Markant Group has also developed its private labels that include food, animal feed as well as drugstore products. The brands are developed according to the needs of the market and Markant Group maintains high quality for all the products. 

UPDATES ON MARKANT GROUP ON 29/05/2018

Markant Group is responsible for sourcing products for Metro and Real mainly for private labels. The company’s purchase increased from  € 400 million to € 900 million. In fact because of the same reason, Real and Metro experienced 30-40% staff reduction especially in their purchasing department. Markant uses the software Agecore for sourcing and private labels which are 100% sourced by Markant are:

• TIP

• Real Quality

• Aro Deutschland

• Fine Life

UPDATES ON MARKANT GROUP ON 07/01/2020

Markant Group has acquired BLOC which is involved in brand and private label management. The firm manages brands like Winny, Best of, Peltri, etc on behalf of their clients which include Trendy Foods, Spar and many more. 

It has been decided by Markant Group that Markant Germany will be handing BLOC. The subsidiary ZHG will be responsible for the private labels handled by BLOC while the other subsidiary Intergast will be managing the brands.