Press Release
Ahold's
Joop Brakenhoff
succeeds Thijs Smit
as Chief Internal
Audit Officer


       Zaandam, The Netherlands, September 16, 2005 - Ahold today announced that
       it has appointed Joop Brakenhoff as Chief Internal Audit Officer.

       Currently Ahold's Vice President Internal Control, Brakenhoff will
       transfer to his new role on September 19, 2005. He will focus on
       finetuning the company's internal controls and central reporting lines.
       The internal audit function will continue to have a dual reporting line
       to both Anders Moberg, President & CEO, and the Audit Committee of
       Ahold's Supervisory Board.

       Brakenhoff, 40, started his career at Ahold on June 1, 2002, as VP
       Internal Audit Europe and was promoted to VP Accounting in February 2004.
       In February 2005, he shouldered the additional responsibility of setting
       up the Internal Control unit of Ahold's Accounting & Reporting
       department.

       Prior to joining Ahold, Brakenhoff worked at KPMG for nine years in
       various management positions before joining the Heerema Group in 1994 and
       the Burg Group two years later as Group Controller and statutory
       Financial Director.

       Brakenhoff succeeds Thijs Smit, whose decision to pursue other interests
       towards the end of the year was announced on June 17, 2005.

       Commenting on the appointment, Anders Moberg said: "With his solid
       background in Ahold's accounting, reporting and audit disciplines, we are
       delighted to promote Joop into this key position as our Internal Audit
       process moves to the next level. We are also very pleased to have been
       able to appoint a successor to Thijs from within our ranks. Our
       management development program is operating at full swing and we wish
       Joop every success in his new challenge."

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       forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other
       factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
       future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
       Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond
       our ability to control or estimate precisely. Many of these risk factors
       are detailed in Ahold's publicly filed reports. Readers are cautioned not
       to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
       only as of the date of this press release. We do not undertake any
       obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking
       statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this
       press release, except as may be required by applicable securities laws.
       Outside The Netherlands, Koninklijke Ahold N.V., being its registered
       name, presents itself under the name of "Royal Ahold" or simply "Ahold."


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