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Aldi Nord is known more formally as ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG. The company is headquartered in Essen, Germany, a city in west-central Germany not far from the Netherlands, and not far from where Anna Albrecht’s store first opened.
In Austria and Slovenia, Aldi operates stores under the Hofer brand. Aldi Nord also owns the Trader Joe's grocery chain in the United States which operates separately from the group. [14] [15] Aldi Süd owns the Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarket chains in the southern United States.
Aldi—the no-frills German grocery store chain owned by the notoriously mum billionaire Albrecht family—is buying 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys grocery stores located in the American South as...
The Albrecht family, who own Aldi and Trader Joe's, has been historically secretive, and there is a lot that's unknown about their personal lives. What is known, however, is their net worth:...
While many sources say that Aldi owns Trader Joe’s or they are both owned by the same parent company it is not quite that simple. Theo Albrecht, the Aldi Nord brother, purchased Trader Joe’s but allowed it to operate independently.
After they were released from the POW camps, the Aldi brothers returned to their hometown and the family store. Five years after the brothers took over their little grocery store, they had already grown to have 31 branches. Two years after that, they had expanded to more than 300 Aldi locations.
The Albrechts -- the German family that owns Aldi -- are famously reclusive. Disputes over inheritances have revealed who they are and their net worth.
ALDI History. For over 40 years, we have stuck to the same guiding principle: great quality should come with everyday low prices. In 1961, the Albrecht Family founded the world’s first discount grocery store in Germany. Learn More >
Heinrich Aldi S.A. acquired the German grocery store chain Aldi for around €8.5 billion (US$10.4 billion) in 2015. Aldi is still owned by Heinrich Aldi S.A., but it’s the parent company that controls all the stores throughout Germany.
Private Company. Founded: 1913. Employees: 20,000. Sales: $US21 billion (1993) SICs: 5400 Food Stores. Company History: Privately held by brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht, Aldi Group is Germany's leading grocery store chain and a top competitor in the global retail food industry.