Bim (company)

BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş.

Company type	Anonim Şirket
Traded as	BİST: BIMAS
Industry	Discount store
Founded	1995; 30 years ago (1995)
Headquarters	Turkey
Number of locations	12,482 shops (Turkey)[1] 687 shops (Morocco)[1] 356 shops (Egypt)[1]
Area served	Turkey - Morocco - Egypt
Key people	Mustafa Latif Topbaş (Chairman)
Products	Basic food items and consumer goods
Revenue	US$14.84 billion (2024)[2]
Operating income	US$151.4 million (2024)
Net income	US$531.8 million (2024)
Total assets	US$6.73 billion (2024)
Total equity	US$3.38 billion (2024)
Number of employees	86,647 (2023)[2]
Subsidiaries	File
Website	bim.com.tr

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] At the beginning, BİM had only 21 stores, but it expanded thoroughly and by the end of 2015 it counted 4972^[5] and 2019, 7438 stores ^[3] by the third quarter of 2021, the company operated 10.330 stores. BİM does not offer franchises, all stores are owned and operated by the company itself,^[6] and they are viewed as a competition to the many independent neighborhood stores. The business model is inspired by the German discounter ALDI.^[4]

It also operates 733 stores in Morocco^[3] and 300 in Egypt.^[3] In 2005 44.12% of its shares were offered to the public.^[7]