Ahold Delhaize MILITARY

Target: Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.

Research cutoff: 26 October 2026

Domain: Defence, military procurement, weapons systems, military logistics and purpose-built kinetic military technology.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Corporate identity and business activities

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. is a Netherlands-based, publicly listed food retail and e-commerce group formed through the 2016 combination of Ahold and Delhaize Group; its 2025 disclosures describe retail operations in the United States and Europe, together with joint ventures and supporting corporate functions.^{1, 2}

The company’s February 2026 publication of its 2025 annual report describes a group operating supermarkets, consumer retail brands, logistics networks and online retail services.³

The company’s corporate governance disclosures establish that its Management Board oversees the business, with supervision by a separate Supervisory Board.⁴

Israeli Ministry of Defence and security-force contracts

No public evidence identified of a contract between Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defence Forces, Israel Prison Service or Israeli Border Police for defence equipment, military technology or security-force services.

No public evidence identified of a military procurement award to Albert Heijn B.V., Food Lion LLC, The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC, The GIANT Company LLC, Giant of Maryland LLC or Hannaford Bros. Co., LLC.

Defence directories and official procurement listings

No public evidence identified of Ahold Delhaize’s participation as a defence supplier in an Israeli military export directory, military exhibition or defence procurement programme.

Defence cooperation announcements

No public evidence identified of an agreement between Ahold Delhaize and Elbit Systems, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries or an Israeli defence ministry agency.

Ownership and controlling principals

Ahold Delhaize identifies Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. as the publicly listed parent and states that it is not directly or indirectly controlled by another corporation or government.⁵

The company’s shareholder page reports BlackRock Inc. with 5.63% of capital and 6.91% of voting rights, based on an August 2023 notification, and Amundi Asset Management with 3.09% of capital and 3.03% of voting rights, based on a September 2026 notification.⁵

No shareholder holding at least 10% was identified in the company’s displayed major-shareholder information as reviewed in October 2026.⁵

Named-principal record

The following records identify corporate positions using the company’s current leadership disclosures; individual military-related associations were not established by the reviewed material.⁶

• Frans Muller - President and CEO as of October 2026; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.^{6, 7}
• Jolanda Poots-Bijl - Chief Financial Officer; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Claire Peters - CEO, Ahold Delhaize USA; appointed to the Management Board in October 2026; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.^{6, 8}
• Margaret Versteden-van Duijn - CEO, Europe and Indonesia; appointed to the Management Board in October 2026; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.^{6, 8}
• Natalia Wallenberg - Chief Human Resources Officer; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Jan Brecht - Chief Technology Officer; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Alex Holt - Chief Sustainability Officer; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Linn Evans - Chief Legal Officer; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Wiebe Draijer - Supervisory Board Chair; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Katie Doyle - Supervisory Board Vice-Chair; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Robert Jan van de Kraats - Supervisory Board member; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Helen Weir - Supervisory Board member; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Pauline van der Meer Mohr - Supervisory Board member; reappointed in April 2026; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁹
• Neela Montgomery - Supervisory Board member from April 2026; her disclosed career includes consumer retail, pharmacy and technology leadership; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.¹⁰
• Frank van Zanten - Supervisory Board member; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Jan Zijderveld - Supervisory Board member; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Per Bank - Supervisory Board member; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.⁶
• Edmond Mesrobian - technology executive nominated in June 2026 and appointed to the Supervisory Board in October 2026; no public evidence identified of a qualifying Israeli military-channel act.^{11, 8}

Thierry Garnier was approved as the incoming CEO in October 2026, but the company announced on 21 October 2026 that his CEO tenure would begin at the close of business on 3 March 2027; he was therefore not the serving CEO at the research cutoff.⁷

The company announced Garnier’s nomination in May 2026, identifying his prior role as CEO of Kingfisher plc and the proposed succession of Frans Muller.¹²

Predecessor and former-board screening

The company’s 2025 governance reporting identifies earlier supervisory leadership changes, including the departure of Julia Vander Ploeg in October 2025.¹³

No public evidence identified establishing a qualifying Israeli military supply act by the historical Ahold or Delhaize predecessor groups or their former controlling principals.

Ahold Delhaize’s 2025 Annual Report, published on 25 February 2026, provides retrospective primary-source confirmation that Julia Vander Ploeg stepped down from the Supervisory Board effective 1 October 2025. The Supervisory Board report states on page 175 that Vander Ploeg and Peter Agnefjäll both stepped down on that date. Page 180 independently reiterates Vander Ploeg’s departure in the Governance & Nomination Committee’s account of 2025 succession planning. This confirms the existing audit statement under “Predecessor and former-board screening” that her departure occurred in October 2025. It also resolves the evidentiary timing issue: existing End Note 13, dated 24 September 2025, announced a future departure effective 1 October, whereas the subsequently published 2025 Annual Report records the departure as completed. The precise effective date is therefore established retrospectively by the company’s own governance reporting. This is a corporate governance finding; neither record establishes an Israeli military supply relationship.^{14, 13}

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Consumer products versus military-specific products

Ahold Delhaize’s 2025 disclosures identify food retail, general consumer products and omnichannel commerce as its operating activities.¹

The company’s February 2025 announcement concerning Inmar Intelligence describes a digital-coupon and promotions partnership serving Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop.¹⁵

The company announced in November 2025 that those five American grocery brands had completed a rollout onto a common proprietary retail and e-commerce platform, supporting customer shopping and online orders.¹⁶

Neither corporate announcement identifies a military-specified product, defence end-user, targeting function, weapons-control capability or Israeli defence procurement relationship.^{15, 16}

Militarised product lines

No public evidence identified of tactical, ruggedised or military-specified products manufactured or marketed by Ahold Delhaize for Israeli military or security customers.

Civilian-to-military distinction

Ahold Delhaize’s disclosed digital products in the reviewed announcements concern consumer promotions and retail commerce; no evidence in those announcements establishes their use as purpose-built kinetic military systems.^{15, 16}

End-user certification and licensing

No public evidence identified of Israeli military end-user certificates, controlled dual-use export licences or military-specific end-use approvals involving Ahold Delhaize products.

Reservist policies and charitable matching

No public evidence identified of an Ahold Delhaize subsidiary maintaining an Israeli military reservist salary subsidy programme.

No public evidence identified of a corporate employee-donation matching programme specifically benefiting Israeli military units, military foundations or reservist support organisations.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Corporate infrastructure activities

Ahold Delhaize’s published business model concerns retail stores, distribution infrastructure, e-commerce and associated support operations; its corporate reporting does not describe the company as a military construction or heavy-equipment manufacturer.¹

Equipment in occupied territories

No public evidence identified of Ahold Delhaize-owned construction machinery, engineering equipment or industrial vehicles being used for settlement expansion, military construction or demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Direct and indirect equipment supply

No public evidence identified of a direct, distributor-mediated or secondary-market transfer of Ahold Delhaize machinery to Israeli military engineering units.

Construction contracts

No public evidence identified of Ahold Delhaize contracting to construct checkpoints, military bases, detention facilities, separation-barrier infrastructure or settlement security installations.

Settlement-related civilian supply controversy

On 9 July 2024, BDS Nederland reported that activists had visited Albert Heijn branches on 4 July 2024 in Utrecht, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Diemen and Enschede as part of a campaign opposing Israeli-origin consumer goods.¹⁷

The campaign alleged improper identification of some Israeli products, including the possibility of produce originating in occupied territories; its published account did not establish an identified farm, settlement supplier, procurement contract or military infrastructure transaction involving Albert Heijn.¹⁷

A further BDS Nederland campaign page names Israeli produce and consumer brands among the retail goods targeted by its Albert Heijn campaign.¹⁸

These campaign records document consumer-product sourcing allegations and organised activism; they do not identify military construction, demolition equipment or defence infrastructure services supplied by Ahold Delhaize.^{17, 18}

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Integration and operating structure

Ahold Delhaize’s reported operating structure comprises consumer-facing grocery and e-commerce brands and supporting corporate functions; its published ownership overview also identifies the principal retail brands and the Indonesian Super Indo interest.^{1, 19}

The company’s corporate reporting describes Ahold Delhaize USA as supporting the group’s American grocery brands through functions including commercial operations, legal services, technology and e-commerce.³

Component supply

No public evidence identified of Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. or its named retail subsidiaries supplying optical, electronic, propulsion, armour, communications, guidance or structural components to Israeli defence manufacturers.

Named defence manufacturers

No public evidence identified of a documented component-supply relationship with Elbit Systems.

No public evidence identified of a documented component-supply relationship with Israel Aerospace Industries.

No public evidence identified of a documented component-supply relationship with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

No public evidence identified of a documented component-supply relationship with Israel Military Industries or Elbit Land.

Co-development and licensed manufacturing

No public evidence identified of a joint weapons-development programme, defence technology transfer, military co-production arrangement or licensed military manufacturing agreement.

Corporate technology partnerships

The company’s disclosed partnership with Inmar Intelligence relates to retail promotions and digital coupon systems; the announcement identifies grocery consumers and retail brands as the beneficiaries.¹⁵

No public evidence identified connecting that partnership to an Israeli defence contractor or kinetic military capability.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Commercial distribution footprint

Ahold Delhaize’s public business reporting identifies retail distribution, supermarkets and online grocery fulfilment as core activities.¹

Its 2025 digital-platform announcement identifies millions of American grocery customers and thousands of online retail orders as the platform’s commercial use cases.¹⁶

Israeli military food supply

No public evidence identified of a named contract by Ahold Delhaize, Albert Heijn, Delhaize or another identified group brand to cater for or supply food to Israeli military bases.

No public evidence identified of a framework agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence for rations, provisions, catering, commissary operations or military grocery distribution.

Transport and maintenance

No public evidence identified of an Ahold Delhaize-operated transport, fuel, waste-management, maintenance or telecommunications service contract specifically serving Israeli military installations.

Occupied-territory military installations

No public evidence identified of company services to Israeli military installations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights or Negev.

Shipping and port services

No public evidence identified of shipping, freight-forwarding or port-handling contracts involving Ahold Delhaize and specifically identified Israeli military cargo or weapons shipments.

Civilian Israel-related commerce

At an 8 April 2026 shareholder meeting, according to a campaign organisation’s published reproduction, then-Europe and Indonesia CEO Claude Sarrailh stated that the group’s retail brands sold some products originating in Israel and described supplier checks intended to prevent sourcing from occupied Palestinian territory.²⁰

This externally reproduced statement establishes an acknowledged category of civilian product sourcing but does not identify military customers, military logistics contracts or defence-related shipments.²⁰

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

Lethal systems manufacturing

No public evidence identified of Ahold Delhaize manufacturing, assembling, licensing or supplying weapons platforms to Israeli forces.

Small arms and artillery

No public evidence identified of supply of firearms, ammunition, artillery, armoured fighting vehicles or associated weapons components.

Uncrewed systems

No public evidence identified of a military drone, loitering-munition or autonomous weapons programme involving Ahold Delhaize.

Munitions and precursors

No public evidence identified of explosive materials, propellants, warhead components or chemical munitions precursors supplied by the group to Israeli defence entities.

Strategic defence platforms

No public evidence identified of Ahold Delhaize’s participation in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, military aircraft, warships, ballistic missiles or main battle tank programmes.

Fire-control, guidance and targeting systems

No public evidence identified of purpose-built targeting algorithms, fire-control systems, weapons-integration software, radar guidance components or kinetic military AI developed or supplied by Ahold Delhaize.

Software classification

The group’s identified proprietary digital platform supports online consumer shopping, while its documented Inmar Intelligence arrangements concern digital coupons and promotional offers; neither published description identifies software designed to generate military targets or weapons effects.^{15, 16}

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

Export licensing

No public evidence identified of an export licence issued, refused, suspended or revoked for an Ahold Delhaize military or controlled dual-use product destined for an Israeli defence end-user.

Arms embargo compliance

No public evidence identified of an investigation, citation, enforcement penalty or sanctions proceeding concerning Ahold Delhaize’s defence trade with Israel.

Military procurement litigation

No public evidence identified of litigation challenging a specific Ahold Delhaize weapons, military technology or defence logistics contract with Israel.

Corporate supplier standards

Ahold Delhaize’s corporate governance materials document group-level governance arrangements and reference its ethical standards and supporting corporate policies.⁴

The company’s 2026 annual-report publication describes its annual disclosure framework as covering both financial and non-financial performance.³

Occupied-territory sourcing response

The 8 April 2026 shareholder exchange reproduced by AH Apartheidvrij attributes to Claude Sarrailh a description of supply-chain due diligence concerning Israeli-origin products and occupied territories.²⁰

The reproduced statement addresses origin labelling, applicable law and supplier screening rather than military export licences or military end-user controls.²⁰

Constructive-notice chronology

BDS Nederland publicly reported its Albert Heijn campaign on 9 July 2024, before the 19 July 2024 constructive-notice threshold specified for this audit.¹⁷

The 8 April 2026 campaign publication records a subsequent shareholder challenge concerning Israeli-origin goods, demonstrating that civilian sourcing was still publicly contested after the July and November 2024 thresholds.²⁰

No public evidence identified of a continuing Israeli military contract requiring cessation analysis under those dates.

Relationship status

No verified military supply relationship was established for which commencement, duration, continuing status or termination could be documented.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Corporate and group coverage

The company’s 2025 annual-report website identifies a portfolio of consumer-facing brands across the United States and Europe, including Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food and Stop & Shop.¹

The company’s October 2026 corporate leadership announcements confirm the appointment of additional directors, including Claire Peters, Margaret Versteden-van Duijn and Edmond Mesrobian.⁸

Campaign 1 - BDS Nederland, July 2024

• Acting entity: BDS Nederland, through its published campaign.
• Target entity: Albert Heijn, an Ahold Delhaize retail brand.
• Recipient or intended beneficiary: Public campaign addressed to supermarket customers and Albert Heijn management.
• Channel: Campaign publication on archief.bdsnederland.nl.
• Earliest documented observation: 4 July 2024.
• Publication date: 9 July 2024.
• Latest documented observation in the cited article: 9 July 2024.
• Status: The article announced an intended continuing campaign; the duration of individual store actions was not established.
• Military relevance: No specific defence contract or military end-user was named.¹⁷

BDS Nederland stated that campaign participants inspected Albert Heijn stores in five Dutch cities and applied warning stickers to Israeli-origin products in July 2024.¹⁷

The organisation’s account alleged problematic origin labelling but did not provide sufficient transaction-level information to establish the exact producer or settlement origin of each disputed item.¹⁷

Campaign 2 - Albert Heijn Apartheid Free

• Acting entity: BDS Nederland.
• Target: Albert Heijn.
• Recipient or intended beneficiary: Supermarket management and consumers.
• Channel: bdsnederland.nl.
• Earliest observation: Publication date not established from the retrieved page.
• Latest observation: Page publicly retrievable during October 2026 research.
• Continuing status: The campaign page remained publicly accessible; current operational activity was not independently verified.
• Military relevance: The published campaign addressed Israeli consumer goods, without identifying an Israeli military procurement relationship.¹⁸

The campaign identifies Israeli-origin fruit and vegetables and named consumer brands as the retail products it seeks to exclude from Dutch supermarkets.¹⁸

Campaign 3 - April 2026 shareholder engagement

• Acting entity: Campaign participants associated with AH Apartheidvrij.
• Corporate respondent: Claude Sarrailh, then CEO of Ahold Delhaize Europe & Indonesia.
• Recipient: Ahold Delhaize shareholder meeting participants and the public.
• Channel: ah-apartheidvrij.nl, an external campaign website.
• Observation date: 8 April 2026.
• Publication date: Exact first-publication date not independently established.
• Latest observation: Public page retrievable in October 2026.
• Continuing status: The page remained publicly accessible; the duration of the meeting exchange itself was not established.
• Military relevance: No specific defence procurement relationship was identified.²⁰

The campaign website reproduces Sarrailh as saying that Ahold Delhaize maintains supplier due-diligence procedures and restrictions concerning products sourced from occupied territories.²⁰

The same page records the campaign organisation’s challenge to the effectiveness of those procedures and its request for stronger controls over Israeli-origin food products.²⁰

This public communication establishes a response to civilian supply-chain scrutiny, with the quoted exchange attributed to Sarrailh by the campaign publisher rather than independently authenticated against a company-issued transcript.²⁰

Governance and communication changes

Ahold Delhaize announced in May 2026 that Claude Sarrailh would leave his Europe and Indonesia leadership role, while subsequent corporate announcements identified Margaret Versteden-van Duijn as the new regional CEO.^{21, 8}

On 21 October 2026, the company confirmed that Thierry Garnier would become President and CEO in March 2027, succeeding Frans Muller.⁷

No public evidence identified linking those leadership changes to the Israeli-origin product campaign or to termination of a military supply relationship.

Military-specific civil-society findings

No public evidence identified in the accessible target-specific results establishing that Ahold Delhaize supplied military equipment, weapons technology, military logistics or operational support to the Israeli state.

No public evidence identified of military-specific divestment by a pension fund or sovereign wealth fund arising from an Ahold Delhaize defence contract.

No public evidence identified of a company commitment to terminate a named Israeli military contract.

Historical evidence

The 2016 Ahold–Delhaize corporate combination predates 2020 and is identified here as historical corporate context [pre-2020]; it is not evidence of a military supply relationship.²

The 2023 shareholder disclosure concerning BlackRock is historical ownership information, with the displayed register also containing a September 2026 Amundi notification; neither entry identifies a military transaction by the retailer.⁵