Danube Company

21°33′33″N 39°11′05″E / 21.55917°N 39.18472°E / 21.55917; 39.18472

Danube Company Limited

Company type	Retailers
Industry	Hypermarket
Founded	October 18, 1987; 36 years ago (October 18, 1987)
Headquarters	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Key people	AbdulRazzaq BinDawood (Chairman), Ahmad AR. BinDawood (CEO)
Products	Retail - Hypermarket
Owner	Bindawood Holding^[1]
Website	danube.sa

Danube Company Limited is a supermarket and hypermarket chain in Saudi Arabia. It is owned by BinDawood Holding, the grocery retail operator of hypermarkets and supermarkets in Saudi Arabia.^[2] Since becoming part of BinDawood Holding in 2001, Danube has grown to 47^[3] current locations.^[4]

Branches

Danube opened its first hypermarket at the Heraa International Mall in 1993 in Jeddah. Then, the branch moved to a hypermarket about 0.5 kilometres away from Heraa International Mall. Danube hypermarkets are located at Medina Road (originally Heraa International Mall), Serafi Megamall, Redsea Mall^[5] and at Central Park Mall^[6][7] Danube opened its first hypermarket in Riyadh's Hayat Mall in 2006 and built its second at Panorama Mall in 2010.^[8][9][10] Danube has 47 store locations across the Kingdom and Danube Online is live in Jeddah, Riyadh, Al Khobar, Dammam and Taif.^[11][12]

Online presence

Danube Online was launched in 2017,^[13] a first mover in the eCommerce grocery space in Saudi Arabia, and available via digital platform and mobile app which offer fully integrated services. Danube Online delivers Danube grocery products in six cities across the Kingdom.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Awards

• Danube Online and the Danube App awarded the Retail Technology Award at the 2018 Seamless Middle East Awards.^[18]
• the Danube Online won Digital Transformation of the Year by IDC Awards, 2019.^[19]
• The Award of the Store Manager Of the Year at the retail Middle East awards 2019.^[18]
• The Industry Excellence Award Food & Beverage at the Saudi Top Achiever Awards in March 2019.^[20]
• Danube Online is shortlisted to win The Retail Transformation and Reinvention Award at the World Retail Congress Awards in September 2020.^[21]

References

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3. "Danube stores see 23.5% sales surge during pandemic". Arab News. 2020-12-31. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
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8. "Danube begins 15-day French food festival in Saudi Arabia". Arab News. 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
9. "افتتاح الفرع الثاني للدانوب بالمنطقة الوسطى في بانوراما مول بالرياض". جريدة الرياض (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-09-03.
10. . saudigazette.com.sa. Archived from the original on 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
11. "Retail mogul Ahmad BinDawood grapples with coronavirus challenge". www.ft.com. 16 June 2020.
12. "BinDawood opens Danube hypermarket in Taif". Arab News. 16 April 2019.
13. "Danube Online lists nongrocery items on Noon.com". Arab News. 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
14. "Health comes first for Danube Online shoppers". Arab News. 2019-11-28. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
15. East, Forbes Middle. "New App Set To Innovate Saudi's Online Grocery Shopping Space". Forbes ME. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
16. "Welcoming the World | Forbes Custom". www.forbes.com. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
17. "200 % زيادة مبيعات عملاق التجزئة السعودي بن داود عبر المنصة الإلكترونية بسبب إجراءات مواجهة فيروس كورونا". أريبيان بزنس (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
18. "Retail Technology of the Year". World Retail Congress 2019.
19. "Saudi Arabia's digital pioneers honored at IDC CIO Excellence Awards 2019". Arab News. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
20. "Saudi Top Achievers Award 2019". sauditopachievers.sa.com.
21. "2020 Shortlist". www.worldretailawards.com.