Lidl

Lidl
	Headquarters in Bad Wimpfen
Company type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1932; 92 years ago
Founder	Josef Schwarz
Headquarters	Neckarsulm, Germany
Number of locations	12,200 (2023)
Area served	Europe Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland ; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States
Key people	Kenneth McGrath (CEO), Dieter Schwarz (Chairman)
Products	Discount supermarkets
Revenue	€125.5 billion (2023)
Number of employees	376,000 (2023)
Parent	Schwarz Group
Website	info.lidl

Lidl (German pronunciation: [ˈliːdl̩] LEE-dəl) is a German international discount retailer chain^[3] that operates over 12,000 stores, present in every member state of the European Union, Serbia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[4] Headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, the company belongs to the Schwarz Group, which also includes hypermarket chain Kaufland.

Lidl is the chief competitor of the German discount chain Aldi in several markets.^[5]

^ ^a ^b "Geschichte – Gründung, Erfolge, Expansio" (in German). lidl.de. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
^ "Successful fiscal year for the companies of Schwarz Group". gruppe.scharz. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
^ "Impressum Archived 27 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine." Lidl. Retrieved 28 September 2012. "Addresse: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG Stiftsbergstraße 1 74167 Neckarsulm "
^ "German discounter Lidl slows U.S. expansion: paper". Reuters. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
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