Company type | Anonim Şirket |
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BİST: BIMAS | |
Industry | Discount store |
Founded | 1995 |
Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 7438 shops (Turkey)
[1] 628 shops (Morocco) [2] 320 shops (Egypt) [3] |
Area served | Turkey - Morocco - Egypt |
Key people | Mustafa Latif Topbaş ( Chairman) |
Products | Basic food items and consumer goods |
₺20.072 million (2016) [4] | |
Number of employees | 37,439 (2016) [5] |
Subsidiaries | File |
Website |
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BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş. (BİM for short) is a Turkish retail company, known for offering a limited range of basic food items and consumer goods at competitive prices. Bim were the pioneers of this discount store model in Turkey.
Bim A.Ş. was founded in 1995 [6] by a group of investors around Cuneyd Zapsu. Zapsu sold his shares to the investment bank Merrill Lynch in 2000. Today, the main shareholder is Mustafa Latif Topbaş. [7] At the beginning BİM had only 21 stores, but it expanded thoroughly and by the end of 2015 it counted 4972 [8] and 2019, 7438 stores [6] by the third quarter of 2021, the company operated 10.330 stores. BİM does not offer franchises, all stores are owned and operated by the company itself, [9] and they are viewed as a competition to the many independent neighborhood stores. The business model is inspired by the German discounter ALDI. [7]
It also operates 687 stores in Morocco [6] and 300 in Egypt. [6] In 2005 44.12% of its shares were offered to the public. [10]