Who owns Lidals and Aldi supermarkets please the origin?
Lidl (pronounced as [lee-dhll]) is a European discount supermarket chain of German origin that operates 7,000 stores. In Germany, it is Aldi’s main competitor. The full name of the company is Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG. It belongs to the holding company Schwarz, which also owns the store chains Handelshof and Kaufland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl ALDI (help·info), short for “ALbrecht DIscount”, is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany. The chain is made up of two separate groups, ALDI Nord (North – operating as ALDI MARKT) and ALDI Süd (South – operating as ALDI SÜD), which operate independently from each other in specific market boundaries. The individual groups were originally owned and managed by brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht; both have since retired.
