With more than 300 million active customers, 380,000 employees, and sales that exceeded 135 billion USD (2016), Amazon announces on June 16th the company’s intention to acquire Whole Foods for 13.7 billion USD. Headquartered in Austin (Texas), Whole Foods leads the organic and healthy food retail market. It has annual sales of over 16 billion USD and more than 477 stores across the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This acquisition launches the...

Agro Sevilla was established in Andalusia in 1977 as a second degree cooperative and by 2017 was one of the largest producers, packers and exporters of olives in the world. Since 1994 it has been the leading Spanish exporter in the sector. On 22 June 2017, the two main American companies involved in the production of black olives, Musco Family Olive and Bell-Carter Foods, filed a complaint with the US Department of Commerce.

Hero is a Swiss multinational with a history of over a hundred years. Although the company traditionally manufactured jams, it entered the infant feeding market in 1985 when it carried out a test that began in Spain. Hero has three major international divisions: jams, cereals, and baby food. However, this case focuses on the infant food division, called Hero Baby, and more specifically on the three markets of the Southern European division: Spain...

In 2019, Toks Restaurants, founded in 1971, turned 47 years old in Mexico. They had 207 units allocated all over the country, competing as family style restaurants, serving 32.4 million customers a year, with 10,700 collaborators. Toks was part of Grupo Gigante, where restaurants represented one of the strategic business units. The value proposition to the client comprised giving the best product, service and atmosphere in exchange for a fair pri...

UNES is a young company of medium size supermarkets that has starred in a turnaround, evolving from losing money, to achieving it, listening to the market and making brave bets to respond to it ("Every day low prices, private brand, fresh, private brand Premium, pop-up shops, single brand supermarkets, alliance with Amazon, etc.), creating its own business model, "the supermarket against the tide". After several years of launching and managing pr...