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Spain: MERE, the Russian ‘hard discount’ similar to the start-up model of Lidl and Aldi
Discount Retail Chain MERE (owned by Russian Torgservis and managed by Svetefor) is a Russian ‘hard discounter’ similar to the initial...
Jun 9, 20213 min read


Sweden: Lidl Plus App goes better than expected
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Sweden's Plus App and customer club have gotten off to a better start than expected. "Compared to other...
Jun 9, 20212 min read


France: Aldi's progress in France
Discount Retail Chain Aldi France (German family owned) has completed almost half of the transformation plan of the Leader Price which it...
Jun 8, 20213 min read


Poland: Lidl will deliver purchases from the e-shop to InPost parcel machines
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Polska (owned by the German Schwarz Gruppe) plans a double-digit increase in the range of products offered in...
Jun 8, 20212 min read


Germany: New German headquarters-good service for Lidl employees
Discount Retail Chain Lidl's (owned by the German Schwarz Gruppe) new German headquarters in Bad Wimpfen is intended to increase...
Jun 7, 20214 min read


Serbia: Lidl Srbija has put plastic shopping bags out of use
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Serbia (owned by German Schwarz Gruppe) has decided to further contribute to the betterment of the community...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Netherlands: Lidl starts Dutch test with Eco-Score
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Netherlands (owned by German Schwarz Gruppe) is the first supermarket in the Netherlands to start a pilot with...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Hungary: Lidl has reached the No.1 spot!
Discount Retail Chain Lidl Hungary (owned by the German Schwarz Gruppe) beat everyone in 2020 and irrespective of the fact whether one...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


China: Chinese discounter store Miniso is growing by one new store a day
Chinese discount variety retail chain Miniso (public compan traded at NYSE: MNSO) accelerated its expansion plan during the pandemic,...
Jun 4, 20211 min read


UK: B&M posts strong full year profit uplift
Discount Variety Retail Chain B&M saw its group statutory pre-tax profit climb by 108.5% to £525.4 million (US$745 million) in the year...
Jun 3, 20212 min read


Netherlands: Zeeman now also sells locally collected second-hand clothing
Discount Textile Retail Chain Zeeman (family owned) sells customers second-hand clothing. Before the end of the year, worn baby,...
Jun 3, 20212 min read


Russia: Magnit to acquire Dixy business with 2,651 stores
Russian Retail Chain Magnit PJSC (MOEX and LSE: MGNT; the Company), one of Russia’s leading retailers, announces it has reached an...
May 31, 20213 min read


Research: European retailers reduce the price gap of their own brands with discounters
The latest research from International Private Label Consult (IPLC) identifies a continuing closing of the price gap between European...
May 27, 20211 min read


Russia: Lidl prepares for its market entry?
Last week has been very eventful. We observed a kind of redistribution of the Russian retail market, initiated by several industry leaders at once. Magnit acquired the Dixy retail chain, (see our post https://www.discountretailconsulting.com/post/magnit-to-acquire-dixy-business-with-2-651-stores-in-moscow-st-petersburg-and-other-regions ) and Lenta bought the Billa Russia supermarkets. Behind this high-profile news, one piece of news remained almost unnoticed: the German disc
May 26, 20218 min read


Germany: Penny starts new super discounter format
Discount retail chain Penny (owned by the German REWE Group) wants to get more market shares from Aldi and Lidl. To this end, the company...
May 26, 20212 min read


Russia: Discounter Lidl comes to Russia
The owner of a large international chain of discounter Lidl has registered a trademark with Rospatent. The company has been looking closely at the Russian market for the past 18 years, but now the niche in which the retailer operates has begun to actively develop. German company "Lidl Stiftung & Co." issued the rights to use the Lidl trademark in Russia for the retail class. Under this sign she develops a chain of supermarkets-discounters in Europe and the USA. At the moment,
May 22, 20213 min read


France: Action opens its first store in Paris
Variety Discount Retail Chain Action (owned by 3i Group) has grown well, started in 1993 in the Netherlands, has now 1,700 stores in...
May 22, 20212 min read


Denmark: 2020 was a good year for ALDI
Discount Retail Chain Aldi Denmark (German family owned) made significant progress on the 2020 results and has reversed the development...
May 19, 20211 min read
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