Question: are the founders of aldi and lidl related?
Answer: They owned 13 stores by 1950. There's a misconception among some that the founders of ALDI and Lidl were brothers who split. In fact, the brothers behind ALDI split in 1960 over a dispute about whether they should sell cigarettes, according to The Telegraph. ... They introduced the name Aldi — short for Albrecht-Diskont.