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
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