Kaufland
Hypermarket retail
Large-format supermarket chain with a full grocery and household range, in Germany and seven Central and Eastern European countries.
Hypermarket retailSince 1984Neckarsulm, Germany
How it started
Schwarz's big-box sister to Lidl.
1984the year it started
Dieter Schwarz opened the first self-service hypermarket under the new Kaufland name in Neckarsulm in 1984, next to the group's smaller Handelshof stores.
How big it is
How big is Kaufland?
€36.7BStore salesFY2025
1,600Stores2026
8Countries2026
Its place in Schwarz Group
One in five euros of group sales.
19.8%of Schwarz Group salesFY2025
Kaufland is the group's full-range hypermarket arm, complementing Lidl's discount stores and running an online marketplace.
Who it competes with
What Schwarz Group does not disclose
- Profit of Kaufland
- Kaufland sales by country
- Online marketplace sales (GMV)
- Customers or basket size
The group behind itSchwarz Group
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Sources
Every number on this page comes from Schwarz Group's own reports.
- Fiscal Year 2025 (ended 28 Feb 2026): group sales €185.6B, Kaufland store sales €36.7B; share of group sale… ↗
- Über Kaufland: over 1,600 stores in eight countries, more than 162,000 employees ↗
- Eine Filiale der Superlative, damals wie heute: 40 Jahre Kaufland Neckarsulm ↗
- Impressum: Kaufland Dienstleistung GmbH & Co. KG, Neckarsulm ↗
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