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. , the Dino Group operated 2,688 stores with a total sales area of , 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. 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.
Structure
The Dino Polska logistics network is based on three distribution centres located in: Krotoszyn, Jastrowie, Piotrków Trybunalski and Rzeszotory. 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.
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. Dino Polska had 1056 stores as of June 2019. In 2023, it opened 250 new stores; the network numbered 2,406 stores at the end of 2023.
+ Growth of Dino since 2008 Year Stores Revenue(million zl) Net income(million zl) Stock price(zl) 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 7.88 2018 977 5,839 308 9.59 2019 1,218 7,647 411 14.40 2020 1,473 10,126 644 28.94 2021 1,815 13,362 805 36.73 2022 2,156 19,802 1,132 37.53 2023 2,406 25,666 1,405 46.07 2024 2,688 29,274 1,505 38.98 2025 3,033 41.35
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