The history of Aldi begins in 1913 Germany but it wasn't called Aldi from the start, so we look into how the name we ...

Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of Trader Joe’s in the United States and one of Europe’s richest men, has died at age 88. The ...

The Aldi-Sued logo is displayed on the discounter's facade. Andreas Arnold/dpa German police have discovered long-lost documents related to the 1971 kidnapping of Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht, ...

FRANKFURT, July 28 (Reuters) - Theo Albrecht, a reclusive billionaire who made his fortune building up one of Germany's largest retail empires, has died at the age of 88. Albrecht, an irrepressibly ...

Theo Albrecht, 88, a reclusive German billionaire who made his fortune building a discount-food business empire in Europe before buying and expanding the Trader Joe's grocery chain in the United ...

This week was a notable one for supermarket expansion in the area as Trader Joe's announced a new location in Sugar Land and Aldi declared it would be adding another 800 new stores over the next five ...

Aldi, the grocery giant known for its super-discounted prices, has a surprisingly complicated history behind it. Aldi — short for Albrecht Discount — was first opened in Essen, Germany, by Anna ...

BERLIN (AP) — Karl Albrecht, co-founder of the Aldi grocery store empire and one of the world’s richest people, has died in the western German city of Essen. He was 94. Essen’s city hall told The ...

The man considered one of the fathers of the discount store strategy — a cofounder of the global Aldi supermarket chain and the developer of Trader Joe's in the U.S. — has died. He was 88. Theo ...

FRANKFURT, July 28 (Reuters) - Theo Albrecht, co-founder of one of Germany's largest retail empires, Aldi, has died at the age of 88. The media-shy billionaire, ranked by Forbes as the country's ...