The life discounter Aldi closes its head office in Essen.
On Saturday, sales point 1 closes.
Essen
- After 101 years of grocery trading in the birthplace of
Aldi
* founders
Karl
and
Theo
Albrecht
, the group of companies closes its branch in the Essen headquarters.
The now much too small shop in Huestraße 89 will be closed on Saturday at 4 p.m., said a spokesman for
Aldi
Nord
on Friday.
On December 10th at 7:00 a.m., a new branch that is more than twice the size will open in the immediate vicinity.
The tradition will be pointed out with pictures and texts in the new branch.
The internal designation “sales point 1” will also be transferred to the new market.
Aldi: In the beginning there was a baked goods store
The first shop of the Albrecht entrepreneurial family was initially a bakery store, which the later parents of Karl and Theo opened in 1913 in what is now the Essen district of
Schonnebeck
.
It was located at today's Huestraße 87, in Anna Albrecht's parents' house.
In the spring of 1919, the Albrechts moved their business to the neighboring residential and commercial building number 89, which the couple bought.
They called the new shop “Karl Albrecht's grocery store”.
The sons Karl and Theo were born and raised in the house.
The first discount branch under the name
Aldi
opened in Dortmund in 1962.
It was the cornerstone for the meteoric rise of the company that made the two Albrecht tribes the richest families in Germany.
Aldi Süd only opened its largest store to date at the company's headquarters in Mülheim at the beginning of the month.
According to the spokesman, the parent company at Huestraße 89 remains in the possession of the
Aldi
Group.
The commercial space should get new users.
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The Aldi branch in the birthplace of Aldi founders Karl and Theo Albrecht in the Schonnebeck district.
The now much too small shop at Huestraße 89 will be closed on Saturday.
© Daniel Koke / dpa
Aldi
- behind the name are two large, internationally operating groups of companies that only give a few figures.
Aldi Süd
, which was
shaped by Karl, had a
net turnover of 51.8 billion euros in nine countries in 2017 with over 5,900 branches and 126,000 employees, as the sustainability report shows.
Theo-shaped
Aldi Nord achieved
net sales of 22.8 billion euros in nine countries with 4,725 branches and around 77,700 employees in 2019.
The
United States
is the only country where both family tribes are active in the grocery trade in the same regions.
“Today, Aldi is a global retail brand with annual sales of 85 billion euros and 12,000 locations,” said the managing director of the EHI Retail Institute,
Michael Gerling
, on Friday of the dpa.
This included 85 percent of the stores that operate under the
Aldi
brand
, but also the
Hofer
brands
in Austria and
Trader Joe's
in the USA.
(
dpa / utz
)
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