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Spar vs. Spar

Retail & leisure
POLAND Spar International has awarded the master licence for the brand in Poland to Spar Group, which is registered in South Africa. The president of Amsterdam-registered Spar International is also the CEO of Spar Group, Graham O’Connor.

Spar Group also recently confirmed plans to invest in the Piotr i Paweł supermarket chain in Poland – an investment that will require the consent of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK).

In February Spar International announced that it had terminated Bać-Pol’s rights to the brand in Poland. This gave it the rights to issue, through its subsidiary, Spar Polska, licences to smaller franchisees to run Spar grocery stores. Around 250 such stores currently operate across the country. Bać-Pol, which has been under bankruptcy protection since the end of last year, is now taking legal action against the termination of its contract with Spar International and against Spar Group, accusing both of colluding to feed false information to the licensees of the stores to encourage them to break their contracts with Spar Polska and sign new ones with Spar Group.

Bać-Pol has issued the following statement: “The management board of Spar Polska S.A. categorically denies the untrue information that Spar Polska S.A. did not have a licence to operate the Spar network in Poland. According to the main licence agreement concluded by Spar Polska S.A. with Spar International B.V. with its registered office in Amsterdam, each party had and has the right to terminate it with a multi-year notice period – while it should be clearly stated that there were no circumstances authorising Spar International B.V. to terminate the main licence agreement with immediate effect. Therefore, the main licence agreement is still valid. The actions by Spar Group Ltd in collusion with Spar International B.V. are an attempt at a hostile takeover. A lawsuit has been filed in a court in Amsterdam and other European courts regarding the illegal activities described.”

Piotr i Paweł has also been placed under bankruptcy protection and has been undergoing restructuring for over a year. A preliminary agreement between Piotr i Paweł and Spar Group is to be signed in the next few weeks and will be followed by an application to the UOKiK. Detailed information on the agreement will be provided after its approval. The Piotr i Paweł chain now comprises app. 75 stores (down from 148 in 2017).

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