BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş. (BİM for short) is a Turkish retail company, known for offering a limited range of basic food items and consumer goods at competitive prices. Bim were the pioneers of this discount store model in Turkey.
Bim A.Ş. was founded in 1995[3] by a group of investors around Cuneyd Zapsu. Zapsu sold his shares to the investment bank Merrill Lynch in 2000. Today, the main shareholder is Mustafa Latif Topbaş.[4] In 2005 44.12% of its shares were offered to the public.[5]
At the beginning, BİM had only 21 stores, but it expanded thoroughly and by the end of 2015 it counted 4,972[6] and 2019; 7,438 stores [3] by the third quarter of 2021, the company operated 10,330 stores. It also operates 828 stores in Morocco[3] and 300 in Egypt.[3] BİM does not offer franchises, all stores are owned and operated by the company itself,[7] and they are viewed as a competition to the many independent neighborhood stores. The business model is inspired by the German discounter ALDI.[4]
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