Edeka

Edeka Gruppe
Edeka Zentrale AG & Co. KG
Edeka Group
Company type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1907 in Leipzig, Germany
Headquarters	Hamburg, Germany
Area served	Europe
Key people	Markus Mosa (CEO); Gert Schambach; Reinhard Schütte
Services	Cash & carry supermarket/warehouse club, convenience/forecourt store, discount store, electronics specialty, home improvement, hypermarket/supercenter/superstore, other specialty, supermarket
Revenue	US$67.1 billion (2019)
Net income	US$380.8 million (2019)
Total assets	US$8.844 billion (2019)
Total equity	US$2.252 billion (2019)
Number of employees	381,000 (2019)
Website	edeka.de

The Edeka Group is the largest German supermarket corporation as of 2017^[update], holding a market share of 20.3%.^[2] Founded in 1907, it currently consists of several co-operatives of independent supermarkets, all operating under the umbrella organisation Edeka Zentrale AG & Co KG, with headquarters in Hamburg. There are approximately 4,100 stores with the Edeka nameplate, ranging from small corner stores to hypermarkets. On 16 November 2007, Edeka reached an agreement with Tengelmann to purchase a 70% majority stake in Tengelmann's Plus discounter store division, which was then merged into Edeka's Netto brand, resulting in around 4,200 stores by 2018.^[3] Across all brands, the company operated a total of 13,646 stores at the end of 2017.^[2]6

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Geschäftsbericht EDEKA-Verbund 2022". geschaeftsbericht.edeka. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Ranking: Top 30 Lebensmittelhandel Deutschland 2018". lebensmittelzeitung.net. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
^ "Tengelmann entscheidet sich für EDEKA" Archived 3 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine (German)

[f-1] "Geschäftsbericht EDEKA-Verbund 2022". geschaeftsbericht.edeka. Retrieved 5 April 2024.

[lebe_Rank-2] "Ranking: Top 30 Lebensmittelhandel Deutschland 2018". lebensmittelzeitung.net. Retrieved 12 October 2018.

[3] "Tengelmann entscheidet sich für EDEKA" Archived 3 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine (German)

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