Ganon Group in the age of AI

Ganon Group Holdings — קבוצת גנון אחזקות — led by Ronen Ganon, is organised around four divisions: real estate, retail, import and logistics, community relations. The website also cites HOM'S and Home Style (home equipment), the Eretz HaGalil winery, the Kanion Binyamin shopping centre in Beit Shean, and around 550 employees.

Sources: ganon-group.com, Globes, TheMarker, Ynet. Consulted on 2 and 3 September 2026.

According to Globes, Calcalist, Bizportal and TheMarker (12 August 2026), an agreement was signed to acquire about 72.3% of Multi Retail Group's shares — 70% from the Kedma fund, 2.3% from its chief executive — for about 173.5 million shekels, on a valuation of about 238 million, a 60% premium over the share price. Multi Retail Group has been listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since January 2021; 27.7% of its capital remains in public hands. Closing is subject to the Competition Authority and Ace Hardware International.

The combination with Zol Stock — 50% owned by the group, with Adir Vanunu (30%) and Sahar Kochavi (20%) — is presented as "a possibility not yet decided". The 155 stores and the 1.7 billion shekels come from that combination. In November 2025, David Saban's appointment to head the retail division aimed at a Zol Stock IPO "within about two years" (Calcalist, reproduced in the press review on ganon-group.com). On 25 August 2026, Ronen Ganon told Ynet he wanted to "turn ACE into a Costco" and double its network to 50 stores within a year.

Press sources cited by name. Consulted on 2 and 3 September 2026.

Shai Market, the butcher chain and the logistics division have no identified web address to date; nor does GG Towers, your largest announced project. Netto Hisachon has a website run by the Sapir group, which does not mention Ganon. This is no judgement on their business: it is a blank page to write, the day you decide to.

These three live sites are also hosted and measured in three different ways — we come back to that further on.

This point is not the most serious in this document, but it is the simplest to fix — and the most visible to anyone looking at your group from the outside today. Two details of the same kind: www.zolstock.co.il returns a certificate error, and nofei-bereshit.co.il shows an "under construction" page.

On 2 September 2026, we tested in real conditions and in Hebrew how three engines — Perplexity, ChatGPT and the first page of Google results (no AI block on the queries tested) — answer the questions your customers would ask. The results are frank, and differ from brand to brand.

This is a rare and valuable result: few brands today obtain the spontaneous first place of an AI answer engine in their own category.

One point deserves mention, for accuracy's sake: on this same family of questions, the engine also spontaneously voices a few reservations about certain products — warranties, labelling. It is a signal to watch and correct rather than ignore, precisely because Zol Stock is already the group's most exposed brand in the eyes of AI.

On 3 September, Jumbo Stock is under maintenance and Shop Stock's domain no longer exists: two of the seven chains cited are offline. These answers rest on old traces as much as on live sites — which makes Zol Stock's position both real and fragile.

Perplexity, queried in Hebrew on 2 September 2026 at 1:23 pm. 15 sources used. Zol Stock: 90 stores according to your website, 85 store pages online, over ₪400M in annual sales according to its shareholders.

This is your only active online sales channel today, and it is invisible everywhere a buyer looks. The query tested was about consumer appliances; GG Electric sells commercial refrigeration, a neighbouring market where the same test remains to be run. The cause would be the same: nothing on the site tells a machine what the brand sells.

On ChatGPT, the answer even comes with a map of nearby shops and their Google ratings — a sign that customer reviews weigh directly on the recommendation.

Tests of 2 September 2026, queries asked in Hebrew on the three engines.

Housing demand in Israel is now concentrated on two portals — Madlan and Yad2 — which the AI answer engines cite as sources. A developer absent from those portals and without structured data on its own site appears in no recommendation.

Perplexity, queried in Hebrew on 2 September 2026 at 1:15 pm. 15 sources used.

This is not a question of search rankings. It is a change in the nature of the customer: tomorrow, the buyer of part of your products will no longer be a person in front of a screen, but that person's assistant. A brand absent from this circuit does not lose visits — it loses orders it will never see go by.

Technical findings established by direct examination of the sites concerned on 2 September 2026.

In commercial refrigeration, nobody has taken the spot: none of the five competitors measured on 3 September has structured product data, customer reviews or a file for AI engines, and only one shows prices. GG Electric is the only one selling online across its whole catalogue. In the neighbouring appliance market, the players cited by the engines have their own flaws: Shalter serves a certificate from another domain, and on 2 September Electric Deal showed a site under maintenance while exposing 4,498 SKUs. This market is not locked up by flawless players.

A note on method, in passing: in this market, several brands display a feature presented as "artificial intelligence" which, on technical inspection, covers no real automation. We systematically check what lies behind the display — and we apply the same standard to what we propose to you.

This is not a problem of quality of work — each of these sites fulfils, at its own scale, the mission it was designed for. It is a problem of scale: at the moment your group is about to integrate several new chains, nobody, to date, has the job of making these systems talk to each other.

These three areas overlap with none of your current providers, whose remit is hosting, website creation and maintenance. We do not come in their place: we come in where nobody has stepped in yet.

One reversal deserves emphasis: the absence of an online store is an advantage here. Zol Stock has no legacy system to reconcile — the sales channel can be designed from the outset to be readable by an AI agent, where your competitors will have to adapt a shop designed for a human buyer.

It is the group's best effort-to-result project: the store already works, the catalogue is kept up to date, the audience measurement is the most modern of the three sites. What is essentially missing is the layer that makes all of this readable from the outside.

This is the division with the widest gap: even the least active developer we observed has at least a website that responds. For that very reason, it is also the one where the first progress will be the most visible.

These two branches are the only ones in the group where nothing needs undoing. Everything built there can be built directly at the right level — structured for the engines, connected to group management, with no technical debt to pick up later.

Every building block is qualified before being proposed: integrate a market solution when it does the job well — and we name it — or develop when a real interest justifies it, and we say which one.

Reconciling the customer bases of several brands is precisely where a fixed automatic rule fails: the data is entered differently, incomplete, sometimes contradictory. It is one of the rare places where AI brings value that nothing else brings — it absorbs that heterogeneity instead of stopping at it.

The app is not an image gadget: it is the building block that turns a position already won in AI searches into a measurable, lasting customer relationship. Without it, visibility produces visits that can be neither named nor called back.

This cockpit is built by connecting the systems already in place with you and your teams — that is always the first option. We only develop custom where necessary: in particular to reconcile, without breaking them, customer and product databases coming from different brands as your integration proceeds.

These four building blocks absorb the heterogeneity inherited from an acquisition before it reaches you. Built during the integration phase, they cost one project. Rebuilt afterwards, once the investors are at the table, they cost far more.

A note of honesty: the technical systems actually used by the newly combined chains are not known to us to date. Qualifying them is the very first step of this project.

The first horizon is a quick catch-up, not a disgrace: these are proven building blocks that go in fast. The second is where the immediate competitive gap is decided. The third is the only one that lets you get ahead rather than run behind.

Zol Stock, already cited first by an engine in its category, has the most to gain from securing this position before a better-equipped competitor takes it. It is the only position in the group to defend rather than to conquer.

The anchor point: from the closing of the Multi Retail acquisition, expected by the end of 2026, the group consolidates a listed company that publishes quarterly accounts. The first tier of the cockpit arrives with its first accounts; auditable group data, a year before the Zol Stock IPO mentioned for late 2027 — and not rebuilt in a hurry at the time of the deal.

The first visible effects come sooner: the files that open your sites to AI engines go in within days, the basic technical fixes within one to two weeks. Their effect on your real visibility then takes several weeks — the time for the engines to re-read your pages, a delay that does not depend on us.

One clarification, in all honesty: several timelines depend on things we do not yet know — the systems of your newly combined chains, the content available for certain projects, access to the right people. We would rather tell you clearly than put forward a figure that would not hold.

Ganon Group today carries the ambition of a player that is growing fast and which, from the closing of Multi Retail, will answer to public shareholders every quarter. The same demand for clarity that builds a market's trust can build, starting now, the way your data, your sites and your teams talk to one another.