Lidl

Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, or simply Lidl, is a German food retail company.
Overview
Lidl is an international enterprise with independent national companies almost everywhere in Europe. The company owns more than 10,000 stores. 3,000 of these stores are in Germany alone, making Germany Lidl's biggest national market.

History
The Lidl & Schwarz Grocery Wholesale company was founded in Germany in the 1930s. The first Lidl stores were opened in 1973, in the 1990s Lidl started opening stores outside Germany and today Lidl stores can be found in nearly every country in Europe. Lidl started its foreign expansion with entering France in 1988. The first store in the United Kingdom (UK) was opened in 1994. Nowadays, there are more than 380 stores in the UK. Lidl supermarkets and Kaufland hypermarkets are part of the Schwarz Group which is one of the largest grocery retailers in Europe, which is based in Neckarsulm, Germany.

Related pages
 Aldi
 Asda
 Tesco
 Iceland
 Sainsbury's
 Marks & Spencer

References

 Other websites 
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 Yahoo! — Lidl & Schwarz Stiftung & Co. KG Company Profile

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