Originally Posted by ssp

I've been following your thread with great interest. Very nice. AH is owned by it's mothercompany called Ahold. Ahold owns much more than the companies you just Googled up. However they don't own Albertsons.

And it's not true that if something is a success in the states they'll start it here. It's actually the other way around believe it or not. With many products, they take Holland as an indicator for lots of huge countries around the world.