“Tighten” structures and thus work more efficiently: Both Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are closing some of their regional companies.
As a result, the number of jobs in the logistics and administration area is shrinking significantly.
Essen - A historic coup became known on Thursday: After 60 years of separation *, Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord are getting closer and are working together for the first time since 1961 * in a "joint operating company".
The
Aldi E-Commerce Verwaltungs GmbH
, are involved in the North and South of 50 percent, was specifically founded in Dusseldorf this to go together to step into the online trading and to succeed there against the competition.
The planned "uniform online shop without regional differentiation" was preceded by the standardization of the regular range and the promotional goods of both discounter giants.
The aim is to create a better overview for the customer and secure the low prices in the long term.
Because if both Aldi * groups save money by pooling their purchases, by creating common brands and packaging, and in terms of advertising, this will ultimately also have an impact on customers.
Last year it was announced that through various joint steps - something like this would have been almost unthinkable for a long time - to consolidate its market position *, secure its competitiveness and expand its price leadership.
Those restructuring measures also include “tightening the structures in the regions”, which means that both Aldi groups * are
closing
some of their
regional
companies
.
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Aldi Süd
recently announced * that it would be giving up a total of four of them in the next two years in order to save costs and reorganize its logistics.
According to the
Lebensmittel Zeitung
, the group will
give up
the
regional companies Wittlich, Altenstadt, Montabaur
and
Ketsch by the
end of 2022
.
This affects around 660 employees.
Wittlich is to cease operations on June 30 and Altenstadt on October 31 of this year - the Montabaur region will follow on February 28 in 2022 and the Kretsch region on April 30.
Aldi Süd has given up a total of seven regional companies since 2017.
Now
Aldi Nord is
following
suit
: They are apparently separating from three of the total of 28 regional companies - the numbers of the entire Aldi empire are thus shrinking from 56 to only 48 companies.
As the
LZ
reports, the Esseners want to close the
Horst, Bad Laasphe
and
Wittstock
regions
by the end of 2021
.
The regional company Horst supplies 77, Wittstock 61 and Bad Laasphe 59 markets - the neighboring regions are to manage and supply these in the future.
While little has changed for the roughly 2,500 employees in the branches, workplaces are available in logistics and administration.
The
LZ
According to the last public budgets about 400 people are faithful alone in the logistics work, to be so obviously in the works council at Aldi Nord negotiated a social plan.
Aldi Nord is apparently closing three regional companies: Not only 440 logistics employees fear for their jobs
"The reorganization and optimization of the logistics in the group of companies is justified from an economic point of view," explained the company.
With the reorganization, Aldi Nord will achieve an optimized supply of stores and customers, also because future-proof locations can be expanded logistically and administratively to a greater extent.
According to
LZ
,
what the discounters need are
larger warehouses in order to logistically handle the increasingly extensive range of goods.
In addition,
Aldi Nord
has steadily reduced its network of branches, but has since reduced it from around 2,500 to just 2,200 locations, thus changing its delivery requirements in many places.
Even with
Aldi South
, the past few years is introduced already comprehensive location analyzes: centers logistics investments in certain Once incurred, the capacities are checked in the neighboring regions.
The regional companies should also shrink in their number here, but will look after more branches in the future, the
LZ
continues.
Aldi-internally, when looking at the reduction of its own costs, one apparently often refers to the discounter competitor Lidl *, which "only" has 39 branches nationwide.
Aldi North and South are still a long way from this, despite their renewed “tightening”.
(cos) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital network.
