Poland: Lidl successfully climbs to the top rankings of the largest retailers in C- & E-Europe
Discount Retail Chain Lidl (owned by the German Schwarz Group) dethroned its sister supermarket chain Kaufland in the Czech Republic in 2019. A year later the Schwarz Group's discount store also became the market leader in the Hungaria, Romania and Slovakia. In the relatively newly entered markets of Serbia and Lithuania, Lidl is already number three in the national rankings of food retailers and is quickly gaining new shares, while reaching the break-even point. Lidl is no l