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History
2010
Miquel Alimentació Grup extends its international wholesale activity by moving into the markets of Latin America, North Africa and China. Also in this year it launched a new business line, Food Service, centred on distribution to the organised restaurant trade and hotel chains.
2009
From 1 May, Miquel Alimentació Grup, joined the Euromadi Ibérica central purchasing organisation and left IFA Española. In October this year, the company started a project of vertical franchise at national level of the Spar brand.
2008
Miquel Alimentació Grup opened a new logistical platform in Fuente de Piedra, Malaga, linked to those already existing in Vilamalla, Mercabarna, Tortosa and Burgos.
2006
Miquel Alimentació Grup comes to an agreement with Carrefour to acquire its wholesale distribution subsidiary Puntocash, with commercial activity all over Spain through 29 Cash&Carry establishments.
2003
Miquel Alimentació Grup extends its wholesale network with the acquisition of the assets of the Burgos company Dilcasa. This purchase brought five new Cash&Carry centres into the Gros Mercat division.
2000
Miquel Alimentació Grup Miquel Alimentació Grup creates the Suma supermarkets, a project which begins with 11 establishments.
1999
Following acquisition of the assets of Booker España, Miquel Alimentació Grup has new Cash&Carry centres in Montcada i Reixac and Mercabarna.
1998
Miquel Alimentació Grup acquires the company Agrupación Comercial, with headquarters in Tortosa. At that moment the company begins work with more than 150 of its own supermarkets in Catalonia and in the Valencia Community, in addition to the traditional businesses of distribution, Cash&Carry and franchised supermarkets with which it already operates.
1993
The company changes its name to Miquel Alimentació Grup, the name with which it is known today and with which it has achieved its best successes in the sector.
1986
Our own brand is born. Initially, in 1986, it was represented by the families of preserved vegetables and preserved fish.
1970
Miquel moves into the Cash&Carry segment and becomes the first company to introduce this type of business into Spain, with the creation of the Gros Mercat brand and the construction of a first centre of 1,000 square metres in Figueres, Girona.
1967
Pedro Miquel e Hijos form part of Unión Vege Española. In this period the company began to introduce voluntary food shop chains, consisting of a formal grouping between Miquel and the retailers.
1958
Pere Miquel and his sons Ramón, Amadeu and Josep form the company Pedro Miquel e Hijos, taking an important step towards professionalizing the business.
1925
Pere Miquel Estela starts up a small business in the wholesale marketing of fruit, cereals and colonial imports. This was the start of an upward road which would bring this business up to becoming the leading company that Miquel Alimentació Grup is today.
