Use dmy dates date April 2011 Infobox company company name Koninklijke Ahold N.V. company logo Image ... http arreport2010.ahold.com PDFs Ahold AR2010 Online.pdf title Annual Report 2010 accessdate 1 April 2011 publisher Royal Ahold ref operating income 1.336 billion small 2010 small ref name AR2010 ... www.ahold.com intl yes Ahold in full Koninklijk e Ahold N.V. is a major international supermarket operator based in Amsterdam , Netherlands. Ahold is listed on Euronext Euronext Amsterdam and the Frankfurt ... to Ahold in 1973 which stands for Albert Heijn Holdings . Citation needed date April 2007 The company ... incurred proved burdensome and very difficult to overcome. By 2003, Ahold had totally pulled out of Asia. It has also pulled out of Brazil, once a sizable market for Ahold, and it sold the BI LO United ... year, Ahold issued a statement in compliance with the WARN Act, or Worker Adjustment and Retraining ... of whether they had been sold. In early November, Ahold announced that the remainder of the Tops chain in the states of New York and Pennsylvania would be put up for sale. Ahold announced details of a major strategic review on 6 November 2006. As of May 2007 Ahold has reached a definitive agreement ... Kravis Roberts KKR for 7.1 billion USD. ref name Ahold press release http www.ahold.com page 5149.aspx , Ahold Corporate Website , Last accessed 6 May 2007. ref It will also divest retail operations ... 2007, Ahold s Stop & Shop division announced that it would exit the Philadelphia Southern New Jersey ... for Ahold. In 2005, the underperforming Giant Food of Landover, Maryland Super G stores switched ... Jersey Super G stores were also shuttered. Supermarket News ranked Ahold s U.S. division No. 7 in the 2007 ... Retailers , Supermarket News , Last accessed 14 January 2011. ref Assets Europe Ahold Czech Republic a.s. Ahold Retail Slovakia k.s. Ahold Coffee Company Netherlands Albert Heijn B.V. Netherlands ... Martins Portugal DinoSol North America Central America Formerly owned Ahold had a minority interest ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 File Albert2a.JPG thumb One of the Ahold s supermarkets in a suburb of Prague, Czech republic Ahold Czech Republic, a. s. a. s. standing for akciov spole nost equivalent of joint stock company is a division of the Netherlands based Ahold company, operating in the Czech republic . They are responsible for running the supermarket chain Albert and the hypermarket Hypernova, totalling about 300 locations. In 2005, they took over 56 outlets of the Austrian based Julius Meinl supermarket, which left the Czech market, and subsequently remodelled them to their Albert brand. In 2009, the company started to slowly drop the Hypernova brand, re branding all hypermarket operations to the name Albert Hypermarket. Category Supermarkets retail company stub Netherlands stub cs AHOLD ... more details
Giant Food as a supermarket chain may refer to Giant Carlisle or Giant Food Stores LLC, a subsidiary of Ahold Giant Landover or Giant Food LLC, also an Ahold subsidiary Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York See also Food Giant disambiguation disambig ... more details
Rishton may refer to Places Rishton , a town in Lancashire, England Rishton, Uzbekistan , a town in the Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan People Edward Rishton John Rishton , CEO of the Dutch company Ahold Tim Rishton , musician disamb de Rishton ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Finast was a retail supermarket brand that existed in the northeastern United States until consolidating all its Northeast stores under the Edwards Super Food Store Edwards brand by its Netherlands Dutch parent Royal Ahold in the mid 1990s. Finast was an acronym for Fi rst Na tional St ores. Commonly referred to as The First National, the chain operated under that name for decades, and ultimately created the Finast acronym for its store brand products. Several years later, most of its stores were renamed Finast during a modernization effort. Finast was based in Somerville, Massachusetts , until purchased by Pick N Pay of Ohio in 1978 its headquarters moved to the Windsor Locks, Connecticut distribution center. Ahold purchased Finast in 1988, marking their entry into the US market. Ahold completed converting the last Pick N Pay locations to Finast in 1994. ref http ech.cwru.edu ech cgi article.pl?id FNSI ref The stores not absorbed into Edwards, mostly in the Cleveland, Ohio area, retained the Finast name through the 1990s. After purchasing Stop & Shop in the 1990s, Ahold was forced to sell many of the Edwards locations, which initiated a restructuring of all its chains. The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets , its Buffalo, New York based unit. Ahold continued to use Finast on its private label products in its grocery chains, including Giant Carlisle , after retiring the Finast banner, phasing out Finast in favor of products matching each chain s name. The First National chain is referred to in H.P. Lovecraft s classic 1936 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth , as Lovecraft mentions that a local branch in that chain is one the few connections Innsmouth has with the outside world. References reflist Category Defunct supermarkets of the United States Category Defunct companies based in Connecticut US retail company stub ... more details
This is a list of supermarket chains in the Czech Republic . flagicon Netherlands Ahold Czech Republic A.S. Ahold Albert supermarket and hypermarket Albert 226 of Albert supermarkets and 56 of Albert hypermarkets flagicon Germany REWE Group Billa 192 stores Penny Market 310 stores flagicon Germany Edeka Edeka Group Interspar 31 of Interspar hypermarkets Interspar Spar 4 of Spar supermarkets flagicon Germany Metro AG Metro Group Makro 13 stores flagicon Germany Lidl 201 stores Kaufland 88 stores flagicon Germany Globus hypermarket Globus 13 stores flagicon United Kingdom Tesco 57 stores flagicon Czech Republic Association of czech and moravian supermarkets COOP Jednota Konzum number of supermarkets August 2009 See also List of supermarkets Europe topic List of supermarket chains in DEFAULTSORT List Of Supermarket Chains In The Czech Republic Category Companies of the Czech Republic Supermarkets ... more details
Dudley Eustace is an England English businessman, having had many executive functions in Netherlands Dutch companies. He is well known for his restructuring work being finance director of Philips ref http uk.reuters.com article idUKL2678742020070126 ref and Ahold . ref http www.nytimes.com 2003 05 09 business royal ahold says fraud was worse than thought.html?pagewanted print?pagewanted all ref Eustace is currently the Chairman of AEGON ref name forbes http people.forbes.com profile dudley g eustace 123172 ref and VNU , now called The Nielsen Company . He is also Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KPN , ref name forbes Vice Chairman of Hagemeyer and was a member of the Supervisory Board of Stork N.V. References cleanup section date July 2010 Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Eustace, Dudley ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Eustace, Dudley Category Living people UK business bio stub ... more details
unreferenced date October 2009 Infobox Company company name Stop & Shop Giant Landover company logo company type Wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold foundation 2004 Quincy, Massachusetts location Quincy, Massachusetts industry Grocery products Deli, bakery, produce, snacks, pharmacy, frozen foods, floral homepage http www.stopandshop.com br http www.giantfood.com Stop & Shop Giant Landover is a company owned by Ahold USA, a subsidiary of Royal Ahold . The company was formed in 2004 by a merger of Giant Food of Landover, Maryland Giant Food and Stop & Shop , two formerly separate companies within Ahold USA. It is the largest supermarket chain currently in existence in the Mid Atlantic States Mid Atlantic region. History In early 2004, Royal Ahold made the move to end local management at Giant Food s headquarters in Landover, Maryland . Ahold also named Stop & Shop s chief executive Marc E. Smith as the new head of Giant Food. In March 2005, Giant Stop & Shop announced that they had entered into a collaboration with Staples, Inc. for a Staples branded store within store section for all 550 Stop & Shop Supermarkets and Giant Food supermarkets in the Northeast region. The section made its debut in July 2005. The area ranges from 40 to 80 feet in size and carries 500 to 1,200 products that are a wide variety of national school and home office brands as well as Staples brand products. Some products will make their initial debut within Giant Stop & Shop supermarkets. The area does not only carry just traditional school and home office products but it also carries items such as copy and photo paper, ink cartridges, and technology products. Before Giant Stop & Shop s Staples joint announcement, the Staples store within store concept was first tested in 60 Stop & Shop supermarkets. In August 2008, the combined company unveiled a new universal logo for the stores, replacing the stoplight logo for Stop & Shop and the Big G logo for Giant. External links http www.corporate ir ... more details
by Ahold for 129 million, while Red Food stores were changed into Ahold s BI LO United States BI LO stores in 1995. ref name Ahold to Buy U.S. Chain ref http www.hed.msu.edu internationalretailing company Ahold expansion.html Ahold in U.S.A. , accessed September 10, 2006 Wayback url http www.hed.msu.edu internationalretailing company Ahold expansion.html Bot retrieved archive date 20060831063249 ... and outside of the letters. It was introduced a year before Ahold bought the company. Fact date May ... more details
Isabel Limache.jpg thumb right Another location in Limache . In 1999 it was procured by Ahold during the purchase of Disco Argentina. ref http www.ahold.com en node 1093 Ahold expands into Central America Royal Ahold Bot generated title ref ref http www.ahold.com node 826 Ahold acquires stores in Latin America Royal Ahold Bot generated title ref Previously Santa Isabel had absorbed Supermercados ... more details
John Rishton born 21 February 1958 is the CEO and President of the international supermarket operator Ahold . He is also a non executive director at Rolls Royce plc Rolls Royce , ref name king cite news last King first Ian url http business.timesonline.co.uk tol business movers and shakers article6922350.ece title Business big shot John Rishton, chief executive of Ahold work The Times date November 19, 2009 ref which he will join as CEO in March 2011. ref cite news last Jones first Rhys title Rolls Royce CEO to retire url http uk.reuters.com article 2010 09 30 uk rolls royce idUKTRE68T1VX20100930 accessdate 5 February 2011 date 30 September 2010 author2 Potter, Mark agency Reuters ref Rishton majored in economics at Nottingham University . Rishton joined Ford Motor Company and worked with the company for 15 years, qualifying as an accountant and later becoming finance director of the company s Portuguese and Spanish operations. He joined British Airways in 1994 as the head of finance for the United States division. He became its chief finance officer in 2001. When the September 11 attacks took place, he was recognized for encouraging a program to re structure the company and reduce its debt. He left BA in September 2005. Rishton joined Ahold in January 2006 as finance director and in November 2007 became the References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rishton, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 21 February 1958 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rishton, John Category British chief executives Category Chief financial officers Category 1958 births Category Living people UK business bio 1950s stub ... more details
based Royal Ahold . Giant Food Stores are often referred to as Giant Carlisle so not to be confused ... . In 1981, the Javitch family made a key decision to sell the company to Ahold Royal Ahold Corporation , a food retailing business based in Zaandam , the Netherlands . Ahold s roots date back to 1887 ... change in the company s history as Giant merged with Edwards Super Food Stores, another Ahold owned ... to another Ahold owned company, Stop & Shop . The Edwards stores throughout New Jersey and New York ..., Giant formed an alliance with another Ahold company, Tops Markets, LLC in Buffalo, New York . The new ... that are consistent with Ahold s strategy of operating local food stores that are focused on meeting ... stores to Royal Ahold, and eight to C&S Wholesalers. Thirteen of the Ahold stores were rebranded ... as President and CEO of Giant Carlisle Tops accessdate 2007 08 24 author Ahold Press Office date ... page 4837.aspx Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2007 08 07 ref October 11, 2007, Ahold ... 10, 2008, Royal Ahold announced that Sander van der Laan, current Executive Vice President of Marketing ... name aholdannounce cite web url http www.ahold.com page 5933.aspx title Ahold announces leadership appointments accessdate 2008 08 03 author Ahold Press Office date 2008 07 10 format work http www.ahold.com ... by Ahold Royal Ahold , who also owns Stop & Shop and Giant of Landover supermarkets in the United States . The stores are generally identical to Giant of Carlisle stores. In 1998, when Ahold purchased ... of Ahold American Grocery Stores Category Companies established in 1923 Category Companies based ... more details
Royal Ahold . In 2006, Giant signed a five year agreement with Starbucks Coffee to open Starbucks ... Fisher first Eric title Dutch Retailer Royal Ahold to Wrap Up Acquisition of Maryland s Giant Foods ... Giant Food http www.stopandshop.com Stop & Shop List of Ahold American Grocery Stores Category Companies ... more details
inline date July 2010 single source date July 2010 Image Euro Shopper logo.png frame right The Euro Shopper logo Euro Shopper is a discounts and allowances discount brand of everyday commodities developed and marketed by AMS Sourcing B.V. . It was introduced to the market in 1996 and Euro Shopper branded products have been sold by some of the AMS members in different countries in Europe ever since. Image Euro Shopper Countries 2008.svg thumb Countries in which Euro Shopper is active Euro Shopper products mostly include commodities with long shelf life . Regardless of country, all products share the same simple packaging art to uphold the image of a no nonsense, low price brand. There are both national products, sold in only one country, and international products, sold in all countries. The most famous product in Finland is Euroshopper energy drink, which is very popular in young people. It often appears on ITV soap Emmerdale in the shops and in people s house. ICA Sweden is currently phasing out Euro Shopper branded products and replacing it with their own brand ICA Basic. AMS members selling Euro Shopper branded products as of 2011 class wikitable Chain Country Albert Heijn Ahold Netherlands , Belgium , Cura ao ICA AB Sweden , Norway Jeronimo Martins & Filhos SA Portugal Kesko Finland Hagar company Iceland Albert Ahold Czech Republic Elomas LTD Greece Booker Group Booker Wholesale inc Premier Stores United Kingdom External links http www.ams sourcing.com EUROSHOPPER EUROSHOPPER tabid 2484 Default.aspx AMS information page on Euro Shopper Category Brands fr Euro Shopper nl Euro Shopper fi Euro Shopper sv Euro Shopper ... more details
Peter Arne Ruzicka born 16 April 1964 is a Norwegian businessperson. His father was Czech, migrated to Norway in 1951 and ultimately became professor of chemistry. Peter Ruzicka took sivil konom siv. k. and MBA degrees at Norwegian School of Management Oslo Business School . In 1990 he was hired in Hakon Gruppen by Stein Erik Hagen . He became director of markets in RIMI after nine months, and successively became CEO of RIMI and Hakon Gruppen. From 2000 to 2003 Ruzicka was the CEO of Ahold Ahold in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . He then left the conglomerate together with Stein Erik Hagen. Instead, Ruzicka became CEO of Jernia in 2003 and Canica in 2006. ref name hvem cite book title Hvem er hvem? last Larsen first Ingrid Sande authorlink year 2008 editor Knut Olav m s publisher Aschehoug location Oslo isbn 978 82 03 23561 0 pages 486 487 ref He is chairman of the board of Jernia, Steen og Str m and G Sport , and a member of the board of the Orkla Group , ref name hvem Think Global , Komplett and Fritz e Engros . ref http www.orkla.no styre peter ruzicka Profile at Orkla.no. Retrieved on 26 November 2008. ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ruzicka, Peter ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 16 April 1964 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ruzicka, Peter Category 1964 births Category Living people Category Norwegian businesspeople Category Norwegian businesspeople in retailing Category BI Norwegian Business School alumni Category Norwegian people of Czech descent Norway business bio stub ... more details
and those of other Ahold companies, such as Gall & Gall and Etos Key people Albert Heijn 1865 Albert ... in the Netherlands. His grandson, Albert Heijn 1927 Albert Heijn 1927 2011 , was the founder of Ahold. Albert s brother, Gerrit Jan Heijn 1931 1987 , also a top manager at Ahold, was kidnapped and murdered ... more details
for the microphone C1000 microphone File C1000.jpeg thumb 200px A photo of a store of C1000. C1000 is a Netherlands Dutch supermarket chain. Founded in 1981 , as of the end of 2011 the chain had 419 stores and employed 32,000 people. Its market share was 13.2 and growing. The supermarket chain operates in a rather unique manner for a supermarket using the Franchising franchise system. C1000 focus for growth is primarily on trying to be the cheapest supermarket. C1000 often finds itself in competition with Albert Heijn the largest Dutch supermarket chain. C1000 s early marketing campaigns were largely about emphasising Albert Heijn s bad points. Until 2008, C1000 s parent company Schuitema was owned by Royal Ahold for 73 , Albert Heijn s parent company. CVC In 2008 Ahold sold its shares to CVC Capital Partners CVC private capital. CVC Capital Partners CVC has now has all the shares and as of the 11 September 2009, Schuitema was no longer listed on the stockindex AEX index AEX . Buying Super De Boer Not a week later on 18 September 2009, supermarketcompany Jumbo supermarket did a bid on Super de Boer . The intention was that Schuitema was buying Super de Boer from the French Groupe Casino . First Schuitema was getting revenge to buying it with an other supermarketgroup Sperwer , the home of the Dutch Plus Dutch supermarket Plus formula. They almost did a bid, but on 5 October 2009 Schuitema make the transfer to no one else then Jumbo supermarket . Sperwer Group Sperwer get an alliance with Schuitema mother Ahold . But the rivalising bid from Jumbo Schuitema was better. The Groupe Casino 54 owner from Super de Boer give green light to the bidders. Jumbo buys it for 553 million euro. On 7 December 2009 the NMa the competition regulator from the Netherlands. Was giving here green light. On 8 December 2009 the shareholders from Super de Boer were also giving here green light. the transaction was closed on 18 December 2009. The Deal In the deal that Jumbo and Schuitema wer ... more details
File Albert Heijn Jr.jpg thumb Albert Heijn Albert Heijn Zaandam, 25 January 1927 Hereford, 13 January 2011 was a Netherlands Dutch entrepreneur , major stock holder and founder and chairman of the board of Ahold . ref name FT http www.ft.com cms s 0 9898659a 2590 11e0 8258 00144feab49a.html Obituary Grocer who felt empathy for the shopper , Phil Davison, Financial Times, 21 January 2011 registration required ref Albert was the grandson of his namesake Albert Heijn born 1865 Albert Heijn 1865 1945 , who began the family business with a single grocery store in Oostzaan and after extending to multiple stores laid the foundation of the same named leading Dutch Albert Heijn retail chain , which was expanded by Albert into a Multinational corporation multinational company . Albert introduced the supermarket store model in the Netherlands and was instrumental behind several innovations in the retail industry such as the passing of an international standard for bar code s in 1974. He was Chief executive officer CEO of Ahold until 1989. His brother and business partner Gerrit Jan Heijn was murdered after being kidnapped in September 1987. ref name FT In 1989 he was honored with the Sydney R. Rabb Award by the Food Marketing Institute making him the first non American to win this prestigious award. Albert Heijn had lived at Pudleston Court in Herefordshire , England ref http www.bbc.co.uk news uk england hereford worcester 12191672 Ex supermarket boss Albert Heijn dies in Herefordshire , BBC News, 14 January 2011 ref ref http news.bbc.co.uk local herefordandworcester hi people and places newsid 9361000 9361814.stm Albert Heijn the supermarket millionaire , BBC Hereford and Worcester, 14 January 2011 ref for many years when he died, and was in no way formally involved with Ahold at the time of his death, although he at times commented upon the state of the company. In Hereford he founded a new company called Eign Enterprises ref http www.cylex uk.co.uk company eign enterprise ... more details
employees 80,000 parent Royal Ahold company slogan Great Food. Low Prices. Friendly Service. homepage ... branch of Netherlands Dutch food giant Ahold in 1995. Ahold had previously acquired First National Supermarkets, whose Edwards and Finast chains also had a strong presence in Connecticut, and Ahold ... negotiations with Blumenthal, Ahold decided to convert all of its New England stores to the Stop & Shop ......help . Ahold also began building stores under the Edwards banner in New York state and New Jersey ... near the Poughkeepsie location. In 1999, Ahold announced its plan to acquire Pathmark supermarkets. Under ..., Ahold walked away from the Pathmark deal and proposed acquiring many of the Grand Union locations instead. At that point, Ahold continued the transition of its Edwards stores, converting all of its New York and New Jersey locations to the Stop & Shop format late in 2000. In 2001, Ahold acquired ... altogether. In 2003, Ahold acquired many of the A & P Foodmart locations in the Hartford, Connecticut ... in that region closed or were sold to other supermarket chains. In 2004, Ahold integrated Stop ... & Shop s parent company, Ahold USA, plans to relocate its corporate headquarters which is currently based in Quincy, Massachusetts to Carlisle, Pennsylvania in order to centralize Ahold s US operations ... http www.ahold.com Website of Ahold, Stop & Shop s parent company http www.freewebs.com thingmaster Stop & Shop fanclub site List of Ahold American Grocery Stores Category Companies based in Norfolk County ... more details
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s corporate structure. Worldwide grocery giant Royal Ahold bought 51 of Peapod s shares in June 2000. In August 2001, Royal Ahold bought out the entire company. As a result, Peapod cancelled its contracts with all grocery companies except for Royal Ahold s two main American chains, Stop & Shop ... more details
Image HiperDino.JPG right thumb 300px HiperDino supermarket in Puerto de Mog n , Gran Canaria . DinoSol operate the following stores HiperDino Express A chain of convenience store s and small supermarket s operating in the Canary Islands HiperDino A chain of supermarkets and hypermarket s operating in the Canary Islands SuperSol A chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets operating in mainland Spain CashDiplo A chain of Cash and carry wholesale Cash and Carry stores operating in mainland Spain and the Canary Islands Dinosol is currently owned by several banks including Bank of Scotland Plc, Caja Madrid and Societe Generale SA. It was previously owned by Permira , a private equity firm, and Ahold . External links http www.hiperdino.es HiperDino http www.businessweek.com news 2011 04 06 permira to cede ownership of dinosol in debt restructuring.html Bloomberg http www.permira.com permira en dealdetail.jsp?id 50174 Permira http www.dinosol.es index.php?idioma en Dinosol Supermercados es icon http www.canarias7.es impresa articulo.cfm?Id 885013&dia 27 05 05 Business report on Dino Category Supermarkets of Spain Category Spanish brands Category Private equity portfolio companies spain stub es Dinosol Supermercados, S.L. ... more details
About the Netherlands retailer melodic death metal band Eternal Tears of Sorrow File Etos Utrecht 2010.jpg thumb Etos shop in Utrecht . Etos B.V. was founded in 1918 by Philips to create a grocery and drugstore where Philips employees could benefit from lower priced products than the average stores. Etos is an abbreviation for the Dutch words Eendracht, Toewijding, Overleg and Samenwerking Unity, Devotion, Consultation and Cooperation . Etos had a bakery and even fuel pumps, in 1931 the stores went private as Etos. In 1973 Etos was bought by Ahold which reformed the grocery stores to the Albert Heijn formula. The drug stores went on as Etos. Etos stores are supposedly composed by four elements Earth health, from vitamin s to medicines , Water bodycare, from shampoo to toothpaste , Fire beauty, cosmetics, fragrance, face care and Air presents . Etos has 500 stores in the Netherlands and a dozen stores in Sweden . One half of the Etos stores operate as a Franchising franchise . In 2008 Etos was named best drug store of the Netherlands for the first time the first 11 years this had been drug store DA . In 2009 it managed to keep this title. References http www.etos.nl overetos index.jsp?trg overetos index.overetos http www.ahold.com index.aspx?id 379 Category Retail companies of the Netherlands Category Companies established in 1918 Category Pharmacies nl Etos ... more details
File Gerrit Jan Heijn.jpg thumb Gerrit Jan Heijn Gerrit Jan Heijn February 14, 1931, Zaandam &ndash September 9, 1987 was a Netherlands Dutch businessman, who was a top manager of Ahold until his death in 1987. ref http www.ft.com cms s 0 9898659a 2590 11e0 8258 00144feab49a.html Obituary Grocer who felt empathy for the shopper , Phil Davison, Financial Times, January 21, 2011 registration required ref His grandfather was Albert Heijn born 1865 Albert Heijn , who originally founded the family business, and his older brother was also named Albert Heijn born 1927 Albert Heijn , who was the founder of Ahold . His son Ronald Jan Heijn played for the Dutch national field hockey team. On September 9, 1987, he was kidnapped near his villa in Bloemendaal , the Netherlands by Ferdi Elsas . Although Elsas murdered him only a few hours after the kidnapping, he pretended that Heijn was still alive for a long time and asked for ransom. He sent the Heijn family Gerrit Jan s glasses and severed little finger . Elsas was caught when he started spending banknotes of the ransom he received, of which the numbers had been recorded. He served a prison sentence and was freed in 2001. Elsas gave directions to Heijn s body, which was buried in the woods near Renkum . Gerrit Jan Heijn was cremation cremated on April 9, 1988 in Driehuis . His kidnapper, Ferdi Elsas, was killed on August 3, 2009 in an accident when he got struck by an excavator while riding his bicycle near the town of Vorden , Gelderland. The 2004 movie The Clearing is loosely based on the kidnapping and murder of Gerrit Jan Heijn. ref http books.google.com books?id QCzRHFYJabcC&pg PA402&lpg PA402&dq the clearing&source bl&ots JVUsgaSJdp&sig KLCbvYT2ko7FBem9sKWuXFip3Gg&hl nl&ei 3wl TdGDComAOpO 8aMH&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 9&ved 0CGoQ6AEwCA v onepage&q the 20clearing&f false Contemporary auditing real issues and cases , p.402, by Michael C. Knapp, Aug 18, 2008 , ISBN 0324658052 ref External links Reflist Personda ... more details
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