That Bundeskartellamt has the large-scale discounter Kaufland green light for that takeover from 22 other Real branches. Through the takeover was “no significant impediment to effective competition in the affected Market spaces“Expected, announced the competition authority on Friday in Bonn with. Had already in December Kaufland from the competition guards permission for the takeover from up to 92 real markets. Kaufland heard like Lidl to the Schwarz Group.
The Russian Financial investor SCP took over the 270 Real branches from Metro last year in order to break up and resell the retail chain. The break-up is considered to be the last big chance for the established German retail chains to once again vigorously expand their branch network. After all, Real had made a turnover of around 7 billion euros before the break-up.
The latest approval from the Federal Cartel Office for Kaufland affects the Real branches Alzey, Balingen, Düsseldorf-Heerdt, Erfurt TEC Flensburg, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Giessen, Grevenbroich, Halle-Neustadt, Heiligenroth, Homburg, Jülich, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Nürnberg Mercado, Ratingen-Breitscheid, Rendsburg, Saarbrücken Saarbasar, Schleswig, Weilheim, Wesel, Wiesbaden Äppelallee Center and Wuppertal-Langerfeld.
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