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Tengelmann Group

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Trading name
  
Tengelmann Group

Industry
  
Retail

Founder
  
Wilhelm Schmitz-Scholl

Number of locations
  
4,170 (2014)

Net income
  
8.1 billion EUR (2014)

Formerly called
  
Wilh. Schmitz-Scholl

Headquarters
  
Mülheim, Germany

Founded
  
1867

Key person
  
Christian W.E. Haub

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Type
  
Private holding company

Predecessors
  
Kaiser’s Kaffee-Geschäft AG Emil Tengelmann GmbH

Key people
  
Karl-Erivan Haub, CEO Christian W. E. Haub, CEO Jens-Jürgen Böckel, CFO

Subsidiaries
  
OBI, KiK, Woolworth GmbH

Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG, doing business as the Tengelmann Group, is a holding company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

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Structure

The corporation has the following subsidiaries:

  • Kaiser’s Tengelmann, 531 retail outlets.
  • KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH, with over 3,000 branches in Germany, 235 in Austria, 2 in Czech Rep. and 1 in Slovenia
  • Woolworth GmbH, with over 200 stores in Germany
  • Obi Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte GmbH & Co. Franchise Center KG, a DIY store chain with 340 locations in Germany and 173 in Europe.

    • Sold supermarket chains

  • Plus Discount spol. s r. o. (Czech Republic) with 134 branches sold to REWE-Beteiligungs-Holding International GmbH
  • Plus Hellas E.P.E. & Sia E.E. (Greece) with 32 branches sold to Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos
  • Plus Élelmiszer Diszkont Kft. (Hungary) with 174 Plus (in 2008) and 22 Kaiser's (in 2003) branches sold to Spar Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft.
  • Plus Discount Bulgaria 25 branches (sold to Lidl & Schwarz)
  • Plus Discount sp. z o.o. (Poland) with 183 branches sold to Jerónimo Martins
  • Plus Discount-Supermercados Lda. (Portugal) with 72 branches sold to Jerónimo Martins
  • Plus Discount Romania S.C.S. (Romania) with 100 branches (sold to Lidl & Schwarz)
  • Plus Supermercados, S. A. (Spain) with 238 branches sold to Carrefour and rebranded as Dia
  • The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, exited as stockholder in 2012
  • Plus Österreich, Zielpunkt Warenhandels-AG (formerly Löwa, mostly badged as Zielpunkt) with 300 supermarkets in Austria. Also includes former branches of the defunct Konsum and Julius Meinl chains. Sold to Blue O in 2010.

    • References

    Tengelmann Group Wikipedia
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