Aldi may appear as if they were a single enterprise with certain store brands or when negotiating with contractor companies. The individual groups were originally owned and managed jointly by the brothers. Karl Albrecht, who died in 2014, retained ownership of Aldi Süd with a personal wealth of €17.2 billion that made him the richest man in Germany. The co-owners of Aldi Nord, Berthold and Theo Albrecht Jr. came close behind at €16 billion. Dieter Schwarz, owner of Lidl and Kaufland came in third, with a fortune of €11.5 billion. Aldi started to expand internationally in 1967, when Aldi Süd acquired
Island Pacific Supermarket Island Pacific Supermarket Island Pacific Supermarket is an ethnic/Filipino supermarket chain with its corporate headquarters in Walnut, California. Also known as Island Pacific Seafood Market, the store sells fresh seafood, meat, produce and grocery products, specializing in Filipino cuisine with an emphasis on Asian products—though it also stocks Western staples. In selected branches, Island Pacific also showcases Philhouse, its own fast-food restaurant, which serves Filipino meals inspired by traditional home-cooking, as well as Bread Republic, home of freshly baked breads and pastries. It has 14 outlets in California and 2 in Nevada as of April 2018, when Island Pacific Supermarket