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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1984 |
Headquarters | Neckarsulm, Germany |
Number of locations | 1,530 (October 2023) |
Area served | Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia |
Products | Hypermarkets |
Revenue | €34.2 billion (2023)[1] |
Number of employees | 155,000 (2023)[2] |
Parent | Schwarz Gruppe |
Website | www |
Kaufland ([ˈkaʊ̯flant]) is a German hypermarket chain, part of the Schwarz Gruppe which also owns Lidl. The hypermarket directly translates to English as "buy-land." It opened its first store in 1984 in Neckarsulm and quickly expanded to become a major chain in what was formerly West Germany. It operates over 1,500 stores[3] in Germany, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova.[4]