Who owns Aldi?

Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when they took over their mother's store in Essen.

Is Aldi owned by a brother?

Both grocery store empires were founded by different families. Instead, it's actually Aldi's massive global empire that was split into two, with half owned by one brother and half by another. Aldi is now a leading grocery chain in the West, with more than 12,000 stores spread across countries including the US, the UK, Australia, and France.

How did Aldi start?

It’s an empire that has made its founding family multibillionaires. Yet Aldi had truly humble beginnings: It started as just a tiny shop in a German suburb run by two reclusive brothers with a knack for thriftiness. Brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht officially founded the German grocery chain Aldi in 1946 in the aftermath of World War II.