Ahold Delhaize’s Q3 2025 business highlights: Strength through value, innovation, and customer loyalty
November 5, 2025 – Today, Ahold Delhaize released its third quarter results for 2025. Throughout the quarter, our great local brands continued to put the needs of customers first by remaining focused on price investments to ensure great value, modernizing and expanding our brands’ stores for better convenience and efficiency, increasing the accessibility of healthy food and much more. See how our great local brands and colleagues worked hard throughout this past quarter to be your trusted local food retailer guided by our Growing Together strategy.
Delivering value through price investments and price favorite products every day
As customers continue to feel the pressure on their household budgets, together with our brands, we remain focused on prioritizing price investments as well as increasing the amount of price favorite products to meet the ask for high quality and affordability. For example, Stop & Shop’s new “Good Things Are in Store” campaign highlights its commitment to value and trust. With local price investments expanded to 88 more stores in Massachusetts and improved in-store service, customers are saving more.
Across Europe, we have added 167 new products for joint sourcing, including 100 products in the price favorite range. In fact, our European brands now offer at least 900 price favorite products across their assortments. Across the pond, the U.S. has introduced 300 new own-brand products. In both regions, own-brand sales continue to outpace the rest of the store, driving loyalty and delivering value while ensuring high quality and affordability.
Expanding online growth through seamless shopping experiences, innovation and AI
From unified digital platforms to smart assistants and cutting-edge tech hubs, we're enhancing convenience, personalization, and operational efficiency across our markets. In the U.S., Hannaford launched PRISM, marking the completion of Ahold Delhaize USA’S (ADUSA) unification of all five U.S. brands under one digital platform. Customers now benefit from expanded payment options like EBT and Apple Pay, plus smarter substitutions enhancing convenience, personalization, and control across all U.S. banners.
We see many opportunities to accelerate AI across every domain of our business. Our brands are building foundational AI platforms that will enable future scaling of winning AI solutions. For example, at Albert Heijn, the AI-powered assistant Steijn, now helps millions of customers answer the daily question “What’s for dinner?” by suggesting personalized recipes and step-by-step guidance.
Additionally, our teams are scaling the proprietary retail media platform, Edge, to our U.S. brands in the coming year. As retail media grows in impact, this move supports more relevant customer experiences and new revenue opportunities. Edge enables on-site display, sponsored search, and in-store digital screens, and has already delivered strong results across several European brands.
Strengthening market presence and preparing for growth
In the U.S., Food Lion also launched omnichannel remodels at 153 stores in Charlotte, North Carolina, enhancing convenience with updated assortments, self-checkouts, and integrated e-commerce options through Food Lion To Go. Now, construction is underway on 92 additional stores in Greensboro, scheduled to open in 2026. To meet growing capacity demands and support future growth, ADUSA announced plans to build a new, tech-enabled distribution center in North Carolina.
In Europe, we are expanding our reach and improving store experiences. Albert Heijn opened 14 new stores this year, including four in Belgium, and had remodeled or relocated over 40 stores. Delhaize Belgium is also preparing to open eight new supermarkets in early 2026 under its affiliate model and expects to complete the transaction of Delfood early next year, further strengthening its position in the Belgian convenience market.
Continuing to advance health, sustainability, and community impact
We remain committed to building healthy communities and a healthier planet. This quarter, Delhaize Belgium introduced a range of hybrid protein products combining the familiar taste of meat with the benefits of plant-based ingredients, following Albert Heijn earlier this year. Delhaize is also reformulating its canned vegetables to remove added salt, a concrete step toward improving nutritional value of own-brand products. In the U.S., ADUSA joined forces with Danone North America and The Nature Conservancy to reduce methane emissions from yogurt production over the next five years which is part of our broader effort to decarbonize operations and promote regenerative agriculture.
This quarter we also saw the launch of the Healthy Future Academy, a new learning platform that helps associates integrate health and sustainability into their daily work, from farm to plate.
For more information on our Q3 2025 financial results, check out the video below and this webpage: