Delhaize Group SA was a Belgian multinational retail company headquartered in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, and operated in seven countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group was the operation of food supermarkets. On 24 June 2015, Delhaize reached an agreement with Ahold to merge and form a new parent/holding company headquartered in the Netherlands: Ahold Delhaize.
A branch of Delhaize Frères in Wavre, c.1900
Delhaize distribution centre in Zellik
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean or Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, from which it is separated by the Brussels–Charleroi Canal, as well as by the municipalities of Anderlecht, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Dilbeek, Jette, and Koekelberg. The Molenbeek brook, from which it takes its name, flows through the municipality. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
Molenbeek's Municipal Hall seen from the Place Communale/Gemeenteplein
Saint John's Dancers in Molenbeeck', Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1592
View into Brussels along the Brussels–Charleroi Canal from Molenbeek, c. 1855
De voddenrapers (The Trash Pickers), Eugène Laermans (1914), with Molenbeek as setting