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 733 stores in Morocco[6] and 300 in Egypt.[6] In 2005 44.12% of its shares were offered to the public.[10]
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