Editing Salling Group (section)

=== The early years ===
The Danish Supermarket was built on the foundation of the [[Salling (department store)|Salling department store]], created in 1906 by [[Ferdinand Salling]]. He worked there until his death in 1953 and he managed to transform his company into public limited company - F. Salling A/S.

After the death of Ferdinand Salling, his son [[Herman Salling]] took over the company. He travelled all over the world in search for inspiration and new ideas. After that he decided to focus on department stores, supermarkets and hypermarket chains.

In 1960, Herman Salling opened his first supermarket store [[Føtex]], through his company [[Jysk Supermarket]], which was a completely new type of store for [[Denmark]]. The idea behind that store was to provide both food and textiles under one roof.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dsg.dk/da/Hvem_er_vi/Historie/Pages/historie.aspx |title=Dansk Supermarket History(in Danish) |access-date=2008-10-21 |archive-date=2018-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928074916/http://www.dsg.dk/da/Hvem_er_vi/Historie/Pages/historie.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>