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European Marketing Distribution

European purchasing organization for grocery stores

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3734911 ↗
Source-derived summary

European Marketing Distribution (EMD) is a European purchasing organization for grocery stores. EMD was established in 1989 and is based in Switzerland.

EMD is currently active in 20 countries with 55,000 points of sale. It has 13 members and has a European market share of 14%.

Editorial summary

“European Marketing Distribution” enters the record as european purchasing organization for grocery stores. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what European, Marketing and Distribution can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around European, Marketing and Distribution.
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Why this record matters

“European Marketing Distribution” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, European, Marketing and Distribution provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3734911. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow European Marketing Distribution primary sources, European Marketing Distribution archive and European research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “European Marketing Distribution” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.