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Denmark: Netto opens countryside store in town with 700 inhabitants
Discount Retail Chain Netto Denmark (owned by the Danish Salling Group) is located snugly in the bend at a roundabout in Skallebølle west...
Nov 21, 20235 min read


Germany: Verticalization in food retail is still in full swing
Discount Retail Chain Lidl`s mother company the German Schwarz Group (Schwarz Produktion Stiftung & Co. KG) has been expanding its food...
Nov 20, 20235 min read


Spain: ACTION reaches 25 stores and expects to add between 30 and 40 stores per year
Discount Variety Retail Chain Action Spain (owned by PE 3iGroup) opens its 25th store in Spain and its 2,500th in Europe. Its new store...
Nov 17, 20234 min read


Denmark: Rema 1000 wins price test ahead of 365 discount
Discount Retail Chain Rema 1000 beats Netto with almost 10 per cent cheaper basket on 21 items, which Avisen Danmark has checked and...
Nov 16, 20232 min read


Germany: Woolworth is planning thousands of new stores, but no online shop
Discount Variety Retail Chain Woolworth wants to expand strongly in Europe in the next few years. "The potential is huge. In the medium...
Nov 15, 20232 min read


Poland: Aldi plans a new checkout system and recruitment of thousands of new employees
Discount Retail Chain Aldi Poland wants to hire thousands of new employees and open more than 1,000 stores, which will be served by 6...
Nov 15, 20233 min read


Spain: Lidl opens its largest Spanish store in Madrid
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Spain (owned by the German Schwarz Group) opens its first store in the Madrid district of Villaverde. Located...
Nov 15, 20232 min read


UK: B&M raises profit guidance as it announces store expansion plans
Discount Variety Retail Chain B&M has increased its full-year profit outlook after posting a strong uplift in first-half sales and...
Nov 14, 20232 min read


Germany: The “Mein Aldi” delivery service comes at exactly the right time
Discount retailers have been hesitant to launch food e-commerce for a long time. Aldi could open up a whole new target group for this...
Nov 13, 20232 min read


UK: Aldi removes plastic packaging from beer and cider
Discount Retail Chain Aldi UK has announced that it will no longer use plastic packaging for its own-label four-packs of beer and cider....
Nov 10, 20231 min read


Germany: Aldi Nord's wine presentation only in cartons
Discount Retail Chain Aldi Nord maintains its linear block wine presentation in carton boxes. This is makes it very characteristic, in...
Nov 10, 20231 min read
Germany: Schwarz expands its vertical integration within the bread category
Schwarz Produktion, owned by Lidl's mother company Schwarz Group, wants to acquire the ARTiBack GmbH from Halle in Germany. At the moment...
Nov 10, 20231 min read


Belgium: Aldi will also install charging stations in car parks
Discount Retail Chain Aldi Belgium (German family owned) wants to equip its store car parks with at least two EV charging points for...
Nov 9, 20231 min read


UK: Lidl claims supermarket first with guarantee all stores will deploy body cameras
Discount Retail Chain Lidl, owned by the German Schwarz Group, is claiming a supermarket first with plans to roll out body-worn cameras...
Nov 9, 20232 min read


Netherlands: Wibra's KVI is their PL brand Dasty and brings in millions in profit
Discount Textile Retail Chain Wibra has compared to 2021, 2022 "a financially good year". The corona restrictions were limited to the first two weeks of that year – after which the shops were allowed to reopen. And customers could finally turn to Wibra again for the "Dasty": Wibra's immensely popular miracle cleaning private label product category. As CEO Bas Duijsens told RetailTrends: "What the smoked sausage is to HEMA, Dasty is to Wibra." The annual accounts filed last we
Nov 9, 20232 min read


Netherlands: Action lowers prices after 30% growth
Discount Variety Retail Chain Action (owned by the UK PE firm 3I Group) is experiencing a new growth spurt this year: the discounter...
Nov 9, 20231 min read


Spain: Lidl choses Zaragoza for Southern European logistics hub
German discount supermarket chain Lidl has chosen the city of Zaragoza, in north-eastern Spain, to build its new logistics hub for...
Nov 7, 20232 min read


UK: Lidl emerged as the fastest growing retailer with sales up 14.7% in the latest 12 weeks
British grocery inflation has fallen below 10% for the first time since July 2022, industry data showed, providing some relief for...
Nov 7, 20232 min read
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