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The Aldi group operates over 12,000 stores worldwide. Aldi Nord is responsible for its stores in Northern Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Aldi Nord also owns the Trader Joe's grocery chain in the United States which operates separately from the group. [14]
Theo and Karl Albrecht split the Aldi Company they founded in 1960 after a dispute about whether to sell cigarettes. [8] The supermarket divided into two legally separate operating units with two distinct geographical locations. Theo's Aldi Nord set to operate in the north of Germany, while Karl's Aldi Süd set to operate in Germany's south. [9]
Also owns 168 Market in California and Nevada. Ai Hoa Supermarket – formerly a Chinese-Vietnamese-American chain in southern California; now operates one store in South El Monte [2] Asian Food Center (New Jersey) Arirang Market - Korean chain from Southern California
Aldi Owns Trader Joe's. America is the only place the two Aldi companies compete: Aldi Süd owns Aldi-branded stores here; Aldi Nord bought the Trader Joe's chain in 1979, when it had only 18 ...
German brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht turned their family's local grocery store into a global chain with over 10,000 stores and billions in revenue — that bought Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe’s has been under Aldi Nord’s ownership since 1979, while Aldi-branded grocery stores in the US are owned by Aldi Sud, meaning the two chains have no business relationship.
First Aldi store in Schonnebeck, Essen. Karl and Theo Albrecht were born and raised in a Catholic [3] family in modest circumstances in Essen, Germany.Their father, Karl Sr., worked as a miner and later as a baker's assistant, [4] while their mother Anna (née Siepmann) ran a small grocery store in the workers' quarter of Schonnebeck [], a suburb of Essen.
While there are thousands of Aldi stores across the globe — from the U.S. to Slovenia — the American chain belongs to Aldi Süd. That said, Aldi Nord owns another popular grocery chain in the ...