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Josef Schwarz was a German entrepreneur who started a fruit wholesale business in 1930 and later expanded it into a food retail company. He was the founder of Schwarz Group, which owns Lidl and Kaufland, and died in 1977.
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.
Lidl is a leading retail company in Europe and part of the Schwarz Group, which also includes Schwarz production and PreZero. Lidl operates in several countries in Asia, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Shenzhen, and Bangladesh, with different cultural and economic features.
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 · Erfahren Sie mehr über die Geschichte von Josef Schwarz, dem Heilbronner Kaufmann, der 1930 die Lidl & Schwarz KG gründete und den ersten Supermarkt in Backnang eröffnete. Lesen Sie, wie sein Sohn Dieter Schwarz den Discounter Lidl weltweit ausbaute und welche Führungspositionen im Konzern es gibt.
