Aldi since 2009. Aldi Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common brand of two German family owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries, and an estimated combined turnover of more than €50 billion. Based in Germany, the chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946 when they took over their mother's store in Essen, which had been in operation since 1913. The business was split into two separate groups in 1960, that later became Aldi Nord, headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd, headquartered in Mülheim. In 1962, they introduced the name Aldi (a syllabic
GB (supermarket) and Wallonia were sold to an independent franchise together with Champion supermarkets, which became re-branded, as "Carrefour Market-Groupe Mestdagh". As of May 2013, there are 58 GB supermarkets left in Belgium, 28 Champion stores in Wallonia, and 431 GB stores have already become Carrefour Market. GB Group had several different supermarket stores: GB (supermarket) GB ("Grand Bazar") was a Belgian supermarket chain, until 2000 owned by the GIB Group when it was taken over by the Carrefour Group. In 1958 the first Super GB is created and opened. In 1961 the first GB hypermarkets are created under the name of