A British polling institute had brands rated for a year in a survey.
In Germany, a food discounter did particularly well.
YouGov is a publicly traded UK market and opinion research company.
One of the founders is Nadhim Zahawi, who has been a member of the British House of Commons for the Tories since 2010.
The discounter Aldi ranks first among the top 10 price-performance winners in a current survey.
Essen / Cologne - Aldi won the race.
In the annual survey by the British market and opinion research institute YouGov in cooperation with
Handelsblatt
, the discount chain took first place - customers find the food retailer to be particularly cheap.
Aldi is thus at the top of the price-performance ranking in Germany for 2021.
And for the first time since 2016.
Aldi wins price-performance ranking - opinion research institute YouGov publishes results
YouGov BrandIndex reportedly carried out a survey of the top 5 brands from 36 categories between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
Over 900,000 online interviews took place.
These are representative of people over the age of 18, writes the opinion research institute with headquarters in London and Germany-based in Cologne on its website.
A total of 1300 brands were rated.
Among these brands, Aldi came first in the overall price-performance ranking.
The drugstore chain dm is in second place, followed by the discounter Lidl.
As the business newspaper
Handelsblatt
writes, it is mainly large companies that consumers in times of the corona pandemic attest a good price-performance ratio.
"Large companies have it easier in a crisis", quoted the
Handelsblatt
Felix Leiendecker, Head of Products Team Dach at Yougov.
"They can absorb additional work better than small companies because they have more capacity for it."
Top 10 price-performance winners in a recent survey - Aldi is rated the best overall by consumers
The top 10 price-performance winners of the survey are listed as follows.
The rating scale ranges from minus 100 to plus 100.
1st place: Aldi - 58.4 points
2nd place: dm - 56 points
3rd place: Lidl - 54 points
4th place: Deichmann - 51 points
5th place: Balea - 50.4 points
6th place: Ebay classifieds - 48.1 points
7th place: Rossmann - 47.7 points
8th place: Ikea - 45.3 points
9th place: Amazon - 43.7 points
10th place: think with you - 43.2 points
Overall, the ranking is divided into different categories.
These include the following: Food & Gastronomy, Non-Food, Retail, Tourism, Portals, Automotive and Logistics, Service Providers and Portals.
The top 5 brands in the ranking within a product category receive a communication seal from the
Handelsblatt
.
In the survey of people in Germany, according to the information, for example, questions were asked about which brand stands for a good price-performance ratio.
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The aid organization Oxfam has published a "toggle list" intended to show unfair contracts between German supermarkets and their suppliers.
Aldi and Lidl can also be found in the rating.