Lidl
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, or simply Lidl, is a German food retail company.
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| Lidl | |
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Retailing |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Founder | Dieter Schwarz |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Klaus Gehrig, Chairman |
| Products | Discount store and hypermarket |
| Revenue |  €59 billion (2010)[1] |
| Parent | Schwarz Gruppe |
| Website | info.lidl |
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.[2][3]
History
The Lidl & Schwarz Grocery Wholesale company was founded in Germany in the 1930s.[4] The first Lidl stores were opened in 1973,[5][6] in the 1990s Lidl started opening stores outside Germany and today Lidl stores can be found in nearly every country in Europe.[7] 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.
Lidl Media
Lidl store in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Map of countries in which Lidl is active as of July 2025
Currently active Planned expansion Formerly active 
Interior of a Lidl store at Entrecampos railway station, Lisbon
A Lidl store in Greenville,South Carolina, United States
Lidl in Somain, France
Lidl in Santorini, Greece
Lidl in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
Lidl in Fuengirola, Spain
Lidl in Bodmin, United Kingdom
Lidl in Amadora, Portugal
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References
- ↑ "Lidl set to power trade". The Daily Telegraph. 21 August 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ "Über Lidl Deutschland" [About Lidl Germany]. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ↑ German discounter Lidl slows U.S. expansion: paper. 17 January 2018. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lidl-usa/german-discounter-lidl-slows-u-s-expansion-paper-idUSKBN1F62GJ. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ↑ "Secrets of the German supermarkets conquering America (24 slides)". LoveMoney. https://www.lovemoney.com/galleries/66867/secrets-of-the-german-supermarkets-conquering-america?page=1. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ↑ "Aldis Erzfeind" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ↑ "Der Geheimnis-Krämer" (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
- ↑ "Lidl opens its 700th store in the UK" (in en-GB). BBC News. 15 February 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43069631. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
