Edeka
Sign in to saveThe Edeka Group () is the largest German supermarket corporation , holding a market share of 25.3%. Founded in 1907, it currently consists of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets, all operating under the umbrella organisation Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG, with headquarters in Hamburg. There are approximately 4,100 stores with the Edeka nameplate, ranging from small corner stores to hypermarkets. On 16 November 2007, Edeka reached an agreement with Tengelmann to purchase a 70% majority stake in Tengelmann's Plus discounter store division, which was then merged into Edeka's Netto brand
Key facts
- Company.name
- Edeka GruppeEdeka Zentrale AG & Co. KGEdeka Group
- Company.logo
- Edeka Logo Aktuell.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.foundation
- in Leipzig, Germany
- Company.location_city
- Hamburg
- Company.location_country
- Germany
- Company.key_people
- Markus Mosa (CEO)Gert SchambachReinhard Schütte
- Company.area_served
- Germany
- Company.industry
- Retail
- Company.services
- Cash & carry supermarket/warehouse club, convenience/forecourt store, discount store, electronics specialty, home improvement, hypermarket/supercenter/superstore, other specialty, supermarket
- Company.revenue
- US$67.1 billion (2019)
- Company.net_income
- US$380.8 million (2019)
- Company.assets
- US$8.844 billion (2019)
- Company.equity
- US$2.252 billion (2019)
- Company.num_employees
- 413,000 (2024)
- Company.homepage
- edeka.de
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- EDEKA ZENTRALE Stiftung & Co. KG
- Employees
- 413000
- Revenue
- 75300000000
- Official website
- www.niedrig-preis.de
- Image
- Hamburg CityNord Edeka.jpg
- Motto
- Milujeme potraviny
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- Commons category
- EDEKA
- inception
- 1907-11-25
- location information URL
- www.edeka.de/marktsuche.jsp
- social media followers
- 245000
- name
- Edeka Zentrale AG & Co. KG
- number of branches
- 10859
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The Edeka Group () is the largest German supermarket corporation , holding a market share of 25.3%. Founded in 1907, it currently consists of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets, all operating under the umbrella organisation Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG, with headquarters in Hamburg. There are approximately 4,100 stores with the Edeka nameplate, ranging from small corner stores to hypermarkets. On 16 November 2007, Edeka reached an agreement with Tengelmann to purchase a 70% majority stake in Tengelmann's Plus discounter store division, which was then merged into Edeka's Netto brand, resulting in around 4,200 stores by 2018. Across all brands, the company operated a total of 13,646 stores at the end of 2017.
== History == The cooperative was founded in 1907 as the E.d.K. (Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin, Purchasing Cooperative of Colonial Goods Retailers in the Hallesches Tor district of Berlin). In 1911, it was renamed as Edeka, a phonetic expansion of the previous abbreviation. The Edekabank was founded in 1914 and, from 1923, central billing was introduced. Although the name contains "Berlin", the group was officially founded in Leipzig.