Schwarz Group (Kaufland, Lidl)

Schwarz Gruppe is a family-owned retail group operating over 12,100 food stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and discount stores across 30 countries under the Lidl and Kaufland brands. Kaufland is a discount retailer supplying fresh food, apparel and household items. The company produces the majority of its fresh meat products through plants in Germany and Czech Republic. Lidl operates as a chain of grocery stores in Europe, offering both food and non-food products to its customers. Through Lidl, the group has also been expanding its presence in the US through recent agreements with Best Market, a US-based supermarket operator, to acquire its stores in New York and New Jersey. In addition to retail business, the Schwarz Group is also engaged in businesses ranging from food production (Schwarz Produktion) to the management of recyclables (GreenCycle/PreZero)