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Friday, September 13 2019 - 19:30
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Ahold Delhaize and Hanshow Technology announce partnership to enhance digital customer experience
ZAANDAM, the Netherlands, Sept. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Hanshow Technology announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership 
with Ahold Delhaize to introduce digital in-store applications for Ahold 
Delhaize's European brands. As a first step in this collaboration, the brands 
will deploy Hanshow's electronic shelf labels across their store networks. In 
addition, Ahold Delhaize and Hanshow will set up a Joint Innovation Lab to 
develop new in-store functions and capabilities.

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Ahold Delhaize Group Brand Logos

Ahold Delhaize and Hanshow started collaborating in early 2018 with electronic 
shelf labels (ESL) in stores at Delhaize Belgium and Albert Heijn in the 
Netherlands. ESL allows customers to easily obtain product information and pay 
conveniently with mobile phones or NFC cards. It also allows for quicker and 
more dynamic pricing methods such as automated price reductions for items close 
to expiration date. This partnership has been extended and intensified so that 
the two companies will now collectively develop new digital solutions for all 
Ahold Delhaize's European brands.

The first step in the extended partnership is for Hanshow to supply ESL to all 
Ahold Delhaize's European brands in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, 
Greece, Czech Republic, Serbia and Romania. In the Joint Innovation Lab, 
Hanshow and Ahold Delhaize will develop other digital innovations such as 
frictionless payment, in-store navigation and in-store advertising. 

As part of the collaboration, Hanshow will move its European head office to the 
Amsterdam region, close to the Ahold Delhaize Global Support Office. This move 
will allow both teams to work closely together and simultaneously develop and 
test new solutions.

"The digital applications we will develop through this partnership will enhance 
the customer experience in our stores and allow us to operate more 
efficiently," said Wouter Kolk, CEO Ahold Delhaize Europe & Indonesia. "Hanshow 
offers best in class in-store applications and know-how, and we have been very 
pleased with their contribution to the mobile phone scan and pay service 
'YesWeScan' at Delhaize and with the first wave of installed ESL at Albert 
Heijn. This is an important step for Ahold Delhaize and our local brands to 
offer an easy and attractive shopping experience to our customers."

"We are grateful for the trust Ahold Delhaize has placed in us and appreciate 
its vision and consistent commitment to driving change. Retail stores are 
undergoing a fundamental transformation as digital and mobile reshape the 
customer journey, bringing together customers, store associates, products and 
the store itself," said Shiguo Hou, Executive Chairman and CEO of Hanshow 
Technology. 

Cautionary notice

This communication includes forward-looking statements. All statements other 
than statements of historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Words or 
expressions such as introduce, will, develop, allows, enhance or other similar 
words or expressions are typically used to identify forward-looking statements. 

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other 
factors that are difficult to predict and that may cause actual results of 
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. (the "Company") to differ materially from 
future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such 
factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in the 
Company's public filings and other disclosures. Forward-looking statements 
reflect the current views of the Company's management and assumptions based on 
information currently available to the Company's management. Forward-looking 
statements speak only as of the date they are made and the Company does not 
assume any obligation to update such statements, except as required by law.

For more information:

Media Contact: chenggang.wang@hanshow.com

Social media:    

Twitter: @Hanshow Technology
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LinkedIn: @Hanshow Technology
Facebook: @Hanshow Technology

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in 
both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more 
than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States, and 
Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 372,000 associates in more 
than 6,769 grocery and specialty stores and include the top online retailer in 
the Benelux and the leading online grocers in the Benelux and the United 
States. Ahold Delhaize brands are at the forefront of sustainable retailing, 
sourcing responsibly, supporting local communities and helping customers make 
healthier choices. Headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands, Ahold Delhaize is 
listed on the Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels stock exchanges (ticker: AD) and 
its American Depositary Receipts are traded on the over-the-counter market in 
the U.S. and quoted on the OTCQX International marketplace (ticker: ADRNY). For 
more information, please visit www.aholddelhaize.com.

About Hanshow Technology

Hanshow Technology Co., Ltd is a global leader in developing and manufacturing 
specializing in ESL and Omni-channel Smart Store Solutions. With continuous 
innovations for years, Hanshow is dedicated to offering global customers a 
series of world-class high quality and premium Smart Devices and Smart Store 
Solutions. Hanshow's Intelligence-enabled platforms and systems deliver 
customer-centric insights, helping retailers tackle operation woes and 
providing various tools to support optimal pricing strategies, eventually, to 
offer consumers more personalized experience. So far, Hanshow serves over 8000 
stores in more than 40 countries and regions with its ESL and Smart Store 
Solutions. For more, please visit our website: en.hanshow.com

Contact: Chenggang Wang, +86-185-1933-2542

SOURCE:  Hanshow Technology

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