Top 10 Retailers Around the World

#8 Aldi Einkauf GmbH

Country of Origin: Germany

Countries of Operation: 18

Annual Revenue: $67.70 billion (as of 2009)

Aldi Einkauf GmbH, doing business as ALDI (acronym for ‘Albrecht Discount’) was put by Deloitte at the eighth position on the list of top ten retailer shops of the world. Founded by the brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht in the year 1961, the company is a German discount supermarket chain. ALDI has two separate chains of operation: ALDI Nord (operating as ALDI MARKET, with its headquarters in Essen and ALDI Sud, with its headquarters in Mulheim an der Ruhr, both of which operate independently from each other within specific areas. Company’s operations consist of Aldi Nord’s 35 individual regional companies with about 2,500 stores in western, northern and eastern Germany, and Aldi Sud’s 31 regional companies with 1,000 stores in western and southern Germany. Aldi Nord operates in Denmark, France, the Benelux countries, the Iberian Peninsula and Poland internationally, while Aldi Sud operates in countries like Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria Slovenia (as Hofer) and Australia.