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                                                                   Press Release

AHOLD SUPERVISORY BOARD NOMINATES TOM DE SWAAN FOR APPOINTMENT AS ITS NEW MEMBER

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 18, 2006 - Ahold today announced that the Ahold
Supervisory Board has nominated Tom de Swaan for appointment as one of its
members. De Swaan is the former Chief Financial Officer of ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
His nomination for appointment will be on the agenda of the next general meeting
of Ahold shareholders.

De Swaan (60) will fill the vacancy to be left by Jan Hommen, who has been on
the Ahold Supervisory Board and chairman of the Audit Committee since 2003.
Hommen will not be standing for re-election at the end of his term following the
Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2007, due to a restriction on the
number of directorships under the Tabaksblat Code.

De Swaan was appointed to the Executive Board of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in 1999, and
served as Chief Financial Officer between 1999 and 2006. He holds several other
supervisory or non-executive directorships including Koninklijke DSM N.V.,
GlaxoSmithKline plc, Financial Services Authority London and Zurich Financial
Services.

The Ahold Supervisory Board currently comprises Rene Dahan (Chairman, Chairman
of the Selection and Appointment Committee, and former Executive Vice President
of Exxon Mobil Corporation); Jan Hommen (Vice Chairman, Chairman of the Audit
Committee and former CFO and vice chairman of the board of Royal Philips
Electronics N.V.); Karen de Segundo (former CEO of Shell International
Renewables); Derk Doijer (Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and former
executive director of SHV Holdings); Myra Hart (a professor who holds the MBA
Class of 1961 Chair of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, and a member
of the founding team of Staples the Office Superstore); Stephanie Shern
(formerly vice chair and global director of Retail and Consumer Products at
Ernst & Young); and Judith Sprieser (former CEO of Transora, Inc and CFO of Sara
Lee Corporation).

Ahold Press Office: +31 (0)20 509 5343

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Netherlands, Koninklijke Ahold N.V., being its registered name, presents itself
under the name of "Royal Ahold" or simply "Ahold."

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