The Schwarz Group is a family-owned multinational retail group that operates grocery shops under the

Lidl Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (; ) is a German international discount retailer chain that operates over 11,000 stores across Europe and the United States. Headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, the company belongs to the Schwarz Group, whi ...

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Kaufland Kaufland is a German hypermarket chain, part of the Schwarz Gruppe which also owns Lidl. The hypermarket directly translates to English as 'buy-land'. It opened its first store in 1984 in Neckarsulm and quickly expanded to become a major chain ...

brands. It is the largest European retailer and the fourth-largest retailer in the world by revenue. The Schwarz Group stores sell mostly private label brands and Schwarz group also operates own production facilities for baking goods, soft drinks and

ice cream Ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It may be made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as ...

History

Schwarz Group was founded by Josef Schwarz (1903–1977), father of Dieter Schwarz, in 1930. It is headquartered in

Neckarsulm Neckarsulm () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Heilbronn, and part of the district of Heilbronn. , Neckarsulm had 26,800 inhabitants. The name Neckarsulm derives from the city's location where the Neckar and Sulm rivers ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Germany. The Schwarz Group is an international trading company with 500,000 employees and operates over 12,900 stores in 2021 across 33 countries. It is made up of the two retail divisions

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. In addition to the retail business, the Schwarz Group also owns brands in the beverages, baked goods, sweets and ice cream sectors. The Schwarz Group has been involved in the collection, sorting, and recycling of recyclable materials for many years. With the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, the company supports education primarily in Dieter Schwarz's hometown Heilbronn. The company had a €125.3 billion turnover in the 2020/2021 fiscal year.

References

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