Karl Albrecht Karl Albrecht Karl Hans Albrecht (; 20 February 1920 – 16 July 2014) was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was for many years the richest person in Germany. In February 2014, he was ranked the 21st-richest person in the world by Hurun Report. Karl and Theo Albrecht were born and raised in a Catholic family in modest circumstances in Essen, Germany. Their father, Karl Sr, was employed as a miner and later as a baker's assistant. Their mother Anna, née Siepmann, had a small grocery store in the worker's quarter
Jumbo (supermarket) Food Group, Edeka and Sperwer Group. On 23 November 2011 it was announced that Jumbo would take over all C1000 stores. As a consequence Jumbo became the second largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, after Albert Heijn. On 23 October 2014, the supermarket was unveiled as a major sponsor of the UCI World Tour professional cycling team, Team LottoNL-Jumbo. On 26 January 2016 Jumbo announced that it had acquired V&D's restaurant chain, La Place, out of bankruptcy for an undisclosed amount of money. Jumbo (supermarket) Jan and Anita Meurs opened on 18 October 1979, the first Jumbo supermarket in a