Spar (retailer) throughout Asia, Africa and Oceania. In fiscal year 2017, SPAR achieved €34.5 billion ($40.1 billion) in global sales, which represented a 5.3 percent increase over 2016. The SPAR motto is "under the tree" The name was originally DE SPAR, an acronym of the Dutch phrase (). The acronym was chosen in order to resonate with the verb "sparen", which (related to English "spare") means "save [money]" in Dutch and some other languages, among them German and Scandinavian languages (with variants such as "spara" or "spare"). The acronym ended up meaning "the fir", after which the logo was chosen. As the
Trillium Circle in late 2004 by its developers. A site was chosen for the property, on Holly Road south of Grand Blanc itself. At the time, the only other business operating nearby was a grocery store called Colony Market, a former Spartan Stores affiliate. This grocery store was to have been replaced with a newer Colony Market, in size, which would have been incorporated into the Trillium Circle development itself; however, Colony Market closed its store in March 2006, and its property was sold to the developers of Trillium Circle. The property, when completed, will be a lifestyle center composed of of