Dino Polska
{{Short description|Polish supermarket chain}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Dino Polska
| logo = Dino convenience store logo.png
| type = Joint-stock company
| traded_as = {{Unbulleted list|{{WSE|DNP}}|WIG30 component}}
| predecessor =
| defunct =
| num_locations_year = 2024
| area_served = Poland
| founders = Tomasz Biernacki
| key_people = Szymon Piduch
| industry = Retail
| products =
| revenue = {{Increase}} 29.3 billion PLN
| revenue_year = 2024
| operating_income = {{Increase}} 1.9 billion PLN
| income_year = 2024
| net_income = {{Increase}} 1.5 billion PLN
| net_income_year = 2024
| assets = {{Increase}} 13.1 billion PLN
| assets_year = 2024
| equity = {{Increase}} 7.1 billion PLN
| equity_year = 2024
| owner = Tomasz Biernacki (51.2%; actual beneficiary exercising control)
| num_employees = {{Increase}} 49.9 thousand
| num_employees_year = 2024
| parent =
| divisions =
| subsid =
| intl =
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| location_city = Krotoszyn, Poland
| location =
| locations = 2,688 stores
| homepage = {{URL|https://marketdino.pl/}}
}}
Dino Polska S.A. is a Polish retail company that operates grocery stores throughout Poland. Dino is a publicly-traded company listed at Warsaw Stock Exchange. {{As of|2024|pre=the end of}}, the Dino Group operated 2,688 stores with a total sales area of {{Convert|1,061,200|m2|acre|abbr=on}}, employed 49,900 people, and reported revenues of PLN 29.3 billion. At the same time, 92% of its stores were equipped with photovoltaic installations, which had a total installed capacity of 98.9 MW, and a total of 86.6 GWh of solar energy was procured.
Dino supermarkets are generally located in medium and small-sized towns as well as on the peripheries of larger cities.{{cite web|title=Jaka jest historia sieci Dino, która debiutuje na GPW? - Handel/dystrybucja|url=http://www.portalspozywczy.pl/handel/wiadomosci/jaka-jest-historia-sieci-dino-ktora-debiutuje-na-gpw,142197.html|website=www.portalspozywczy.pl|accessdate=12 November 2017|language=pl}} The retail chain was founded in 1999 by Tomasz Biernacki and started in western Poland, but has since expanded across the entire country. In 2022, the Subcarpathian Voivodeship became the last of Poland's voivodeships to open a Dino store and Dino is now present in every voivodeship.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-04 |title=Dino naciera na Rzeszów. Na Podkarpaciu było 0 sklepów Dino, a teraz… pójdzie już z górki |url=https://www.wiadomoscihandlowe.pl/najwieksze-sieci-handlowe/dino/dino-naciera-na-rzeszow-na-podkarpaciu-bylo-sklepow-dino-0-a-teraz-juz-pojdzie-z-gorki-2485970 |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=www.wiadomoscihandlowe.pl |language=pl-pl}}
Structure
File:Moryń - Sklep Dino - panoramio.jpg]]
The Dino Polska logistics network is based on three distribution centres located in: Krotoszyn, Jastrowie, Piotrków Trybunalski and Rzeszotory.{{cite web|title=Dino Polska S.A. – Profil działalności, oferta, mapa, film|url=http://grupadino.pl/profil-dzialalnosci/|website=Dino Polska S.A.|accessdate=12 November 2017|language=pl-PL}} Due to the expansion of the retail chain, Tomasz Biernacki set up the private limited company Dino Polska Sp. z o.o., whom over the course of the next three years sold all Dino stores to. The continued expansion of the company forced its transformation into a joint-stock company.{{cite web|title=Dino chce być najszybciej rozwijającą się siecią supermarketów proximity w Polsce|url=https://www.wiadomoscihandlowe.pl/artykuly/dino-chce-byc-najszybciej-rozwijajaca-sie-siecia-s,10174/1|website=www.wiadomoscihandlowe.pl|accessdate=12 November 2017|language=pl|archive-date=27 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627084556/https://www.wiadomoscihandlowe.pl/artykuly/dino-chce-byc-najszybciej-rozwijajaca-sie-siecia-s,10174/1|url-status=dead}}
Dino Polska stores offer their customers around five thousand different articles, with each store including a meat counter, selling meat, prosciutto and a variety of prepared meat types mainly supplied by Agro-Rydzyna. Dino Polska is the owner of the Agro-Rydzyna meat plant. Since 2010, Dino Polska is the sole distributor of meat and ham products under this brand, buying shares in the company since 2003.
In June 2010, Enterprise Investors, an investment fund, bought 49% of the shares in the company for 200 million zlotys. Since its relations with Enterprise Investors, the retail chain began to markedly expand, from 111 stores at the end of 2010 to 628 stores by the end of December 2016. In April 2017, Enterprise Investors allocated all of its assets onto the Warsaw Stock Exchange.{{cite web|title=Enterprise Investors sprzedaje Dino - Enterprise Investors|url=https://www.ei.com.pl/enterprise-investors-sprzedaje-dino/|website=Enterprise Investors|accessdate=12 November 2017|date=5 April 2017}} Dino Polska had 1056 stores as of June 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://grupadino.pl/en/dinos-network-has-1056-stores-81-new-store-openings-in-h1-2019/|title=Dino Polska S.A. – publikacja prospektu i rozpoczęcie oferty publicznej|date=2019-07-02|website=Dino Polska S.A.|access-date=2019-09-17}} In 2023, it opened 250 new stores; the network numbered 2,406 stores at the end of 2023.{{Cite web |title=The Dino network numbers 2,406 stores; 250 new stores openings in 2023 |url=https://grupadino.pl/en/the-dino-network-numbers-2406-stores-250-new-stores-openings-in-2023/ |access-date=2024-03-12}}
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|+ Growth of Dino since 2008{{Cite web|url=http://grupadino.pl/en/|title=Dino Polska S.A. – corporate website|website=Dino Polska S.A.|access-date=2022-08-21}} ! Year !! Stores !! Revenue | ||||
| 2008 | 81 | |||
| 2009 | 90 | |||
| 2010 | 111 | |||
| 2011 | 154 | |||
| 2012 | 234 | |||
| 2013 | 324 | |||
| 2014 | 410 | 2,108 | 66 | |
| 2015 | 511 | 2,590 | 122 | |
| 2016 | 628 | 3,321 | 151 | |
| 2017 | 775 | 4,463 | 214 | 78.80 |
| 2018 | 977 | 5,839 | 308 | 95.85 |
| 2019 | 1,218 | 7,647 | 411 | 144.00 |
| 2020 | 1,473 | 10,126 | 644 | 289.40 |
| 2021 | 1,815 | 13,362 | 805 | 367.30 |
| 2022 | 2,156 | 19,802 | 1,132 | 375.30 |
| 2023 | 2,406 | 25,666 | 1,405 | 460.70 |
{{Commons category|Dino stores|nowrap=yes}}
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