Klaus Gehrig (born 1948) is a German businessman, the CEO of

Schwarz Gruppe The Schwarz Group () is a German multinational retailer that operates stores under the Lidl and Kaufland brands. With revenues of €167.2 billion in fiscal year 2023, Schwarz Group is the largest European retailer and the fourth-largest retai ...

, a private family-owned German retail group that owns

Lidl Lidl ( ) is a trademark, used by two Germany, German international discount supermarket, discount retailer chain store, chains that operates over 12,600 stores. The ''LD Stiftung'' operates the stores in Germany and the ''Lidl Stiftung & Co. K ...

and

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 ch ...

, and is the largest retailer in Europe. Gehrig succeeded company owner

Dieter Schwarz Dieter Schwarz (born 24 September 1939) is a German billionaire businessman, and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. He is the former chairman and CEO of the supermarket chain Lidl, and the hypermarket chain Kaufland. Career Founding of the Lidl Disc ...

as CEO of Lidl in 2004.

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