What DIA is and where it is based
DIA is the trading brand and commonly used name of Grupo Dia, headed by Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación, S.A., a Spanish listed food retailer. Its registered office is Calle Jacinto Benavente, 2A, Tripark building, Las Rozas de Madrid; its Spanish tax number is A28164754. This profile covers the consolidated group, rather than an individual store or franchisee. 2025 accounts: identity and history 2025 corporate governance: office and shareholders.
From the 1966 company to a neighbourhood network
The company was incorporated on 24 June 1966 and opened its first store in Madrid in 1979: these are separate milestones. Its shares have traded on the Spanish continuous market since 5 July 2011. In 2019, L1R Invest1 Holdings’ takeover offer raised its holding to 69.76% when the transaction settled. 2025 accounts: identity and history.
Subsequent restructuring narrowed the group: the sales of Clarel, Portugal and Brazil completed on 1 April, 30 April and 25 June 2024 respectively. Continuing operations in 2025 were concentrated in Spain and Argentina. Those divested businesses are not added to this profile’s annual sales. 2025 accounts: divestments and discontinued operations.
Ownership and leadership
The 2025 corporate governance report identifies LetterOne Investment Holdings, S.A. as the indirect holder of 77.71% of voting rights through L1R Invest1 Holdings S.à r.l. The accounts give 77.712% at their preparation date. The Spanish operating parent and its Luxembourg controlling shareholder are separate entities. 2025 corporate governance: office and shareholders 2025 accounts: controlling shareholding 2025 accounts: identity and history.
The board appointed Jonathan William Muir non-executive chair and co-opted shareholder representative director on 15 October 2026, replacing Benjamin J. Babcock. Muir is LetterOne’s CEO; the announcement provides for his DIA board appointment to be submitted for ratification at the next general meeting. CNMV, October 2026: Jonathan Muir, non-executive chair. Luisa Delgado became vice chair and senior independent director. Martín Tolcachir is identified as group CEO in the November 2026 Argentina sale announcement. CNMV: board changes in February 2026 November 2026 announcement: executive leadership.
Supermarkets, franchises and products
The model combines own stores, franchises and online shopping, with fresh food, manufacturer brands and own-brand products. Examples in the report include Dia Láctea yoghurts, Caprichoso crème caramel, VegeDia plant-based desserts, Nuestra Alacena cooked ham and Casa de Vacas ready meals. These are product ranges, rather than additional companies to count separately. 2025 report: network and workforce 2025 report: own-brand products.
Store and logistics network in 2025
At year-end 2025 the network comprised 3,365 stores: 2,358 in Spain and 1,007 in Argentina. Spain had 774 own-operated and 1,584 franchised stores; Argentina had 252 own-operated and 755 franchised stores. The 2,339 franchises represented approximately 70% of the network. The report identifies 16 warehouses across the two markets; store numbers do not establish property ownership. 2025 report: own stores and franchises 2025 report: network and workforce.
Consolidated sales and sales under banner
Consolidated net sales in 2025 were €5,715.147 million, compared with €5,880.257 million in the 2024 comparative. This is the annual figure used for editorial selection. The income statement separately reports €24.649 million of other income. The accounts’ Argentine figures include hyperinflation accounting. 2025 accounts: net sales and earnings 2025 report: own stores and franchises.
Gross sales under banner include indirect taxes and franchisees’ sales to consumers. DIA’s net sales instead include its merchandise sales to franchisees and associated rights and services. The network’s total retail sales therefore cannot replace consolidated revenue or be added to it. 2025 report: net sales and gross sales under banner.
Earnings and accounting comparability
Operating profit in 2025 was €149.402 million and profit attributable to the parent was €128.980 million. Continuing operations contributed €114.512 million and discontinued operations €14.468 million. Interpreting earnings requires considering recognition of tax assets in Spain and reversal of contingencies relating to the Portugal sale, rather than attributing the entire improvement to selling more products. 2025 accounts: net sales and earnings 2025 accounts: income tax 2025 accounts: divestments and discontinued operations.
The 2025 accounts retrospectively corrected an Argentine deferred tax liability relating to inflation adjustments since 2018. The adjustment increased comparative equity at year-end 2024 by €68.010 million and the 2024 result by €17.952 million. The comparison therefore uses the restated €60.784 million loss. The accounting note states that the correction did not change cash flows. 2025 accounts: correction of the 2024 comparative 2025 accounts: net sales and earnings.
Employees, franchises and training
The report records 16,887 direct employees at year-end 2025: 13,701 in Spain and 3,186 in Argentina. It separately identifies 1,503 franchisees and 15,558 employees of their businesses, outside that employee headcount. The own-workforce non-employee disclosure reports 983 people supplied by staffing providers. These are different populations and are not combined as DIA employees. 2025 report: network and workforce 2025 report: workforce by country 2025 report: non-employees and collective bargaining.
The group reported 156,951 training hours and €1.907 million of training investment in 2025. The Spanish collective agreement includes round-the-clock psychological and social support. These measures describe resources offered; they do not, by themselves, demonstrate reduced stress or fewer accidents. 2025 report: prevention organisation and training 2025 report: non-employees and collective bargaining.
Occupational safety and health organisation
The report describes a joint prevention service owned by group companies. Occupational safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics and applied psychosociology are managed internally, while an external provider handles health surveillance and medical examinations. Periodic external audits review the system. This description does not in itself establish ISO 45001 certification. 2025 report: prevention organisation and training.
The CEO has ultimate responsibility for implementing the policy, while the Nominations and Remuneration Committee oversees the People and Culture Policy. An improvement highlighted for 2025 is managers’ involvement in following up actions arising from audits. 2025 report: prevention organisation and training 2025 report: occupational health and accidents.
Prevention in stores and warehouses
Documented actions include training in evacuation, machinery handling and manual handling of loads. The Spanish absence-management plan includes workplace adjustments, needs identification, manager training, medical examinations and support for returning after psychological-health-related absence. Reported absence includes illness, accidents and unjustified absence, so it does not measure occupational harm alone. 2025 report: occupational health and accidents.
For interpretation, controls should be linked to shelf replenishment, order picking and goods movement, with implementation checked at each site. Training and wellbeing campaigns are concrete measures, but the report provides no causal evaluation attributing changes in accident figures to those measures. 2025 report: occupational health and accidents.
Accidents and indicator boundaries
In its own-workforce health and safety table, DIA reports 456 accidents among men and 421 among women in 2025: 877 in total, summing the two columns. Published frequencies are 37 and 24 respectively per million hours worked. They are not labelled LTIFR here, and no combined rate is calculated without each population’s exposure hours. 2025 report: occupational health and accidents 2025 report: workforce indicator methodology.
The table reports three serious accidents among men, a dash for women, and 14 occupational diseases across both sexes. It states that 100% of employees are covered by the health and safety system. Its note says there were no deaths on company premises during the year; this should not be extended to the entire value chain. These results cannot be attributed to the 15,558 franchise employees. 2025 report: occupational health and accidents 2025 report: value-chain workers.
Franchises, suppliers and coordination
The value-chain human rights policy applies to suppliers and franchisees. Supplier questionnaires cover labour rights, health and safety, job quality, equality and training. These due-diligence mechanisms are distinct from employee accident figures: a shared policy does not establish identical statistical coverage. 2025 report: value-chain workers.
For franchisees, DIA reports deploying Dokify to digitise business-activity coordination and prevention documentation, with expiry alerts. This is a document-management tool identified by the company; it does not establish that every intervention or site is risk-free. 2025 report: franchisee tools.
Food safety and product recalls
The report describes traceability from suppliers to stores and recall mechanisms across the retail network and logistics platforms when a problem is identified. It also provides for notifying Club Dia customers who bought the affected product. Ingredient, allergen and origin labelling form part of this consumer protection, which serves a different purpose from occupational accident prevention. 2025 report: traceability and product recalls.
Refrigeration, energy and supply chain
For 2025, DIA reported 195,470 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent in Scope 1, 178,432 in market-based Scope 2 —183,623 on a location basis— and 4,156,011 in Scope 3. Purchased goods are the largest component of Scope 3. The inventory follows the GHG Protocol and includes franchise-owned, franchise-operated stores (FOFO) in Scope 3. 2025 report: emissions and climate boundary.
The strategic plan includes refrigeration equipment renewal, energy efficiency and logistics modernisation. The environmental table’s 2026 and 2030 figures are forecasts or targets, rather than achieved results. Not every year-on-year movement is interpreted as operational improvement, since the report flags discontinued-operation effects in its comparisons. 2025 report: 2025–2029 strategic plan 2025 report: emissions and climate boundary.
Digital tools and artificial intelligence
Documented 2025 tools track franchise inventory movements, facilitate payments and support monthly financial monitoring. The group capitalised €3.7 million of IT development in Spain; that accounting figure does not represent all technology investment. 2025 report: franchisee tools 2025 report: capitalised IT development.
The report presents a three-stage AI adoption plan —IGNITE, SCALE and SUSTAIN— to identify uses, redesign processes and establish governance and monitoring. It is described as an integration and adoption process; it is not presented here as full deployment, worker replacement or demonstrated savings. 2025 report: AI adoption plan.
Tax inspections and reporting limits
The 2025 accounts state that Spanish general tax inspections started between 2023 and 2025 had concluded. Corporation-tax adjustments for 2016, 2017 and 2020 totalled €13.539 million and were fully provided for, so they did not adversely affect 2025 equity, according to the company. Prior provisioning does not mean there was no cash effect. 2025 accounts: tax inspections and disputes.
At the accounts’ preparation date, two tax disputes remained, involving €1.209 million and €2.083 million for 2011–2012 and 2013–2014. The group assessed losses as possible and had made no provision. This states the position disclosed in the accounts, rather than a court ruling or a claim that the position remained unchanged in November 2026. 2025 accounts: tax inspections and disputes.
Argentina sale: signed agreement, expected completion
On 5 November 2026 DIA announced an agreement to sell all of Dia Argentina to Dorinka, S.R.L., the ChangoMás operator controlled by Grupo de Narváez. The announcement specifies no conditions precedent and expects completion on 12 November. At this profile’s 8 November date, this is a signed agreement, rather than a completed transfer. CNMV, 5 November 2026: Argentina sale agreement.
Expected closing receipts total approximately US$53.8 million: US$40 million for the shares, US$9 million as an upfront payment for the first three years of a trademark licence and US$4.8 million for intragroup receivables. The company estimates a negative accounting impact of about €100 million. These are transaction forecasts, rather than 2025 ordinary revenue or losses already recorded in that year. CNMV, 5 November 2026: Argentina sale agreement.
Priorities of the 2025–2029 plan
The plan presented in 2025 envisages 300 store openings in Spain by 2029 and renewal or expansion of six logistics platforms, using the modernised Illescas platform as a reference. It also includes improvements to product ranges, tills, digital channels and loyalty. These are plan commitments and targets; the profile retains the 3,365 stores actually reported at year-end 2025 as its historical baseline and treats the subsequent Argentina transaction separately. 2025 report: 2025–2029 strategic plan 2025 report: own stores and franchises CNMV, 5 November 2026: Argentina sale agreement.
Frequently asked questions
Is DIA a Spanish company?
Yes. Its listed parent is a Spanish company based in Las Rozas de Madrid. Its controlling shareholder is Luxembourg-based LetterOne Investment Holdings, S.A., through L1R Invest1 Holdings. The parent’s domicile and the origin of shareholder control are separate facts. 2025 accounts: identity and history 2025 corporate governance: office and shareholders. [1] · [2]
How much revenue did DIA report in 2025?
Consolidated net sales were €5,715.147 million. Gross sales under banner include taxes and franchisees’ sales to consumers, so they are a different measure. 2025 accounts: net sales and earnings 2025 report: net sales and gross sales under banner. [1] · [2]
How many stores and employees did it have?
At year-end 2025 it reported 3,365 stores and 16,887 direct employees in Spain and Argentina. The 15,558 franchise employees are disclosed separately and are excluded from that direct headcount. 2025 report: network and workforce 2025 report: own stores and franchises. [1] · [2]
What occupational prevention does DIA document?
It describes a joint prevention service, internal technical specialities, external health surveillance, periodic audits and training in evacuation, machinery and load handling. It also reports workplace adjustments and return-to-work support. 2025 report: prevention organisation and training 2025 report: occupational health and accidents. [1] · [2]
Do the accident rates include franchise employees?
The table belongs to the own-workforce section. It does not support extending the results to franchise employees. Frequencies of 37 for men and 24 for women use a million-hour base; they are not presented as LTIFR or averaged without weighting. 2025 report: occupational health and accidents 2025 report: workforce indicator methodology 2025 report: value-chain workers. [1] · [2] · [3]
Has DIA already sold Argentina?
As of 8 November 2026, an agreement was signed on the 5th and completion was expected on the 12th. The announcement envisages US$53.8 million of receipts from shares, the trademark licence and intragroup receivables. Completion is not asserted to have occurred. CNMV, 5 November 2026: Argentina sale agreement. [1]
