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Joseph Schwarz was one of the most important entrepreneurs in northern Baden-Württemberg last century. His decision to become a partner in a wholesale business for tropical fruit in 1930 began the long history of the Schwarz Group.
The business was founded in 1930 by Josef Schwarz (1903–1977), father of Dieter Schwarz. It is headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Schwarz Group is an international trading company with 500,000 employees and operates over 12,900 stores (in 2021) across 33 countries.
Lidl store in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1932, Josef Schwarz became a partner in Südfrüchte Großhandlung Lidl & Co., a fruit wholesaler, and he developed the company into a general food wholesaler. [6] [better source needed]
In 1973, Dieter Schwarz joined the "Lidl & Schwarz KG" business of his father Josef Schwarz and opened the company's first discount supermarket, inspired by the brothers Albrecht. After his father died in 1977, he took control of the discount chain.
In the 1930s, Josef Schwarz joined the tropical fruit wholesaler Lidl & Co. in Heilbronn, Germany. The success story of Lidl as a discount chain began in the 1970s when Dieter Schwarz restructured the wholesale grocery that his father ran into a grocery discounter and opened the first Lidl branches in the Ludwigshafen area in 1973.
May 30, 2023 · It all began in the 1930s when LIDL’s founding father, Josef Schwarz, opened a small grocery store in Germany. Over the years, the business steadily grew, establishing a reputation for offering...
Dec 11, 2018 · Und der Heilbronner Kaufmann Josef Schwarz (1903–1977) trat als persönlich haftender Gesellschafter in die Lidl & Co. Südfrüchtenhandlung ein. Das Unternehmen nannte sich fortan „Lidl & Schwarz KG“.
