Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG

Trade name	Tengelmann Group
Formerly	Wilh. Schmitz-Scholl
Company type	Private holding company
Industry	Retail
Predecessors	Kaiser’s Kaffee-Geschäft AG Emil Tengelmann GmbH
Founded	1867 (1867)
Founder	Wilhelm Schmitz-Scholl
Headquarters	Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
Number of locations	4,170[1] (2014)
Key people	Christian W. E. Haub, CEO Jens-Jürgen Böckel, CFO
Services	Grocery stores Discount stores Home improvement and DIY stores Apparel & accessories
Net income	€8.10 billion[1] (2014)
Number of employees	72,714[1] (2014)
Divisions	Tengelmann Energie GmbH (TEG)[2] Tengelmann Sicherheit und Service GmbH (TSG)[3] Tengelmann Assekuranz[4] TREI Real Estate[5]
Subsidiaries	KiK Woolworth GmbH Obi Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte Emil Capital Partners[6]
Website	tengelmann.de/en/

Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG, doing business as the Tengelmann Group, is a holding company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.^[7]

Structure

The corporation has the following subsidiaries:

• KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH, with over 3,000 branches in Germany, 235 in Austria, 2 in Czech Rep. and 1 in Slovenia
• Obi Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte GmbH & Co. Franchise Center KG, a DIY store chain with 340 locations in Germany and 175 in Europe.

Sold supermarket chains

• Kaiser’s Tengelmann, 531 retail outlets sold to Edeka in January 2017, which in turn transferred 25% of the outlets to REWE as dictated by the German Federal Cartel Office; all stores were rebranded according to the brands of their new owners
• Plus Discount spol. s r. o. (Czech Republic) with 134 branches sold to REWE-Beteiligungs-Holding International GmbH
• Plus Hellas E.P.E. & Sia E.E. (Greece) with 32 branches sold to Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos
• Plus Élelmiszer Diszkont Kft. (Hungary) with 174 Plus (in 2008) and 22 Kaiser's (in 2003) branches sold to Spar Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft.
• Plus Discount Bulgaria 25 branches (sold to Lidl & Schwarz)
• Plus Discount sp. z o.o. (Poland) with 183 branches sold to Jerónimo Martins
• Plus Discount-Supermercados Lda. (Portugal) with 72 branches sold to Jerónimo Martins
• Plus Discount Romania S.C.S. (Romania) with 100 branches (sold to Lidl & Schwarz)
• Plus Supermercados, S. A. (Spain) with 238 branches sold to Carrefour and rebranded as Dia
• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, exited as stockholder in 2012^[8]
• Plus Österreich, Zielpunkt [de] Warenhandels-AG (Austria), formerly Löwa, mostly badged as Zielpunkt, with 300 supermarkets. Also includes former branches of the defunct Konsum Österreich [de] and Julius Meinl chains. Sold to Blue O in 2010.^[9]

References

External links

• The Tengelmann Group
• The Tengelmann Group (in German)
• The Tengelmann Group (Archive, 2003–2004, 2006)