Good news for Real customers: More than 60 branches of the supermarket chain will continue to operate under the old name (assembly).
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The Federal Cartel Office has now also given the go-ahead for the Real break-up to keep 64 Real branches. These locations remain real.
Düsseldorf/Bonn – In January it was the message par excellence in German retail: stay despite the breakup up to 60 branches of the hypermarket chain Real in Germany*. Of the Real*-Owner SCP hands over the locations to the family office of financial investor Sven Tischendorf. What was still missing, however, was approval for the takeover and continued operation by the Federal Cartel Office. This release has now been granted.
Real break-up: Approval granted to maintain a total of 64 Real markets
“It is good news that the existence of further Real locations is secured. The locations are to continue to operate under the Real flag with the participation of the previous management. In addition to the planning security for the employees, this is also associated with an opportunity for competition,” explained Andreas Mundt, President of the Federal Cartel Office, in March 2022. In the meantime, five further locations have been added, so that 64 Real branches can now remain Real in the future*.
Which locations these are has already been almost completely determined. According to Real’s current location fee list, a total of 64 branches, that will be preserved as Real, already announced*. According to this, it will continue to be used in eleven German federal states, including North Rhine-Westphalia*, real markets type. More could be added, according to Real. “There are still a few branches where no decision has been made,” explains the company when asked by 24RHEIN*. The company is currently unable to say how many Real stores would ultimately remain with Real.
64 Real branches remain Real – these locations are fixed
These locations will remain with Real (as of April 20, 2022):
- Real in Amberg (Fuggerstrasse 4)
- Real in Bexbach (Poststrasse 1)
- Real in Böblingen (Röhrer Weg)
- Real in Brakel (Warburger Strasse 38)
- Real in Brandenburg (Brielower Landstrasse)
- Real in Braunschweig (Berliner Strasse 53) – closure for repair work from January 31, 2022
- Real in Bruchsal (Stuttgarter Str. 10)
- Real in Bühl (Vimbucher Strasse 75)
- Real in Coesfeld (Dülmener Strasse 39)
- Real in Dinslaken (Thyssenstrasse 70)
- Real in Donaueschingen (Bregstrasse 30)
- Real in Düsseldorf-Heerdt (Schiessstrasse 31)*
- Real in Erfurt (Gothaer Strasse 22)
- Real in Ettlingen (Huttenkreuzstrasse 3)
- Real in Euskirchen* (Narzissenweg 25)
- Real in Frankfurt a. d. Oder (Messering 10)
- Real in Gelsenkirchen* (Emscherstrasse 37)
- Real in Gosen (Am Müggelpark 10-12)
- Real in Gotha (Schubertstraße 20)
- Real in Hagen* (Vollbrinkstraße 9)
- Real in Halle (Am Bruchsee)
- Real in Hallstadt-Bamberg (Emil-Kemmer-Strasse 2)
- Real in Heidenau (main street 3)
- Real in Heiligenhaus (Velberter Strasse 38-44)
- Real in Helmstedt (Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse)
- Real in Herne* (At the wholesale market 4)
- Real in Hettstedt (Kämmritzer Weg 20)
- Real in Hildesheim (Cheruskerring 26)
- Real in Hohe Börde (Hermsdorf, Elbe Park)
- Real in Ingelheim (Nahering 3)
- Real in Jettingen (Heilbergstrasse)
- Real in Kamp-Lintfort (Moerser Str. 221)
- Real in Karlsruhe-Bulach (Ortenbergstrasse)
- Real in Cologne-Sülz (Weisshausstrasse 20-30)*
- Real in Landsberg (Saarbrücker Strasse 1)
- Real in Ludwigshafen (Prälat-Caire-Strasse)
- Real in Magdeburg (Olvenstedter Graseweg 37)
- Real in Monschau (Industriestrasse 8)
- Real in Mülheim-Kärlich (Industriestrasse 4)
- Real in Nordwalde (Wallgraben 12-14)
- Real in Oberndorf am Neckar (Friedrich-List-Strasse)
- Real in Passau (Holzmannstrasse)
- Real in Pocking (Passauer Strasse 56)
- Real in Pritzwalk (Rostocker Strasse 2)
- Real in Querfurt (in front of Nebraer Tor 5)
- Real in Riesa (Riesapark 4)
- Real in Saarlouis (Carl-Zeiss-Strasse 2)
- Real in Salzgitter-Thiede (Schäferwiese 15)
- Real in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 11)
- Real in Schiffdorf-Spaden (Neufelder Weg 1)
- Real in Schwentinental-Raisdorf (Mergenthalerstraße 13-21)
- Real in Stuhr (Proppstrasse 164)
- Real in Traunstein (Haslacher Feld 5)
- Real in Uelzen (Fischerhofstrasse 6)
- Real in Übach-Palenberg (Boschstrasse 4)
- Real in Weiden (Neustädter Strasse)
- Real in Weimar (Landhausallee 7)
- Real in Weingarten (Franz-Beer-Strasse)
- Real in Wernigerode (Dornbergsweg 43)
- Real in Wetzlar (Hörnsheimer Eck 2-4)
- Real in Wolfsburg-Nordsteimke (Hehlinger Strasse 21)
- Real in Wülfrath (Zur Fliethe 8)
- Real in Wuppertal-Langerfeld (Dieselstrasse)
- Real in Zwiesel (Alte Langdorfer Strasse 15)
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Real breakup: Continued operation of Real branches saves around 5,000 jobs
real busting
The hypermarket chain Real gets smashed*. This means that most of the previously around 270 Real branches in Germany were either operated by another Grocery store* will be taken over or closed forever. Many takeovers already happened in 2021. The supermarket chain has the lion’s share of the branches Kaufland* secured. But also Edeka*, Globus* and rewe* have participated in the Real break-up* in the past few weeks and months and are taking over several locations in Germany.
In January 2022 it was announced that up to 60 Real branches should remain under the old name. The current Real owner SCP will hand this over to the family office of the Tischendorf entrepreneurial family on July 1, 2022. Then the real break-up should be over.
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More than 5,000 people work in the 64 Real branches. Through a so-called “management buy-out”, i.e. the purchase of a company by its management, with the participation of financial investor Dr. Sven Tischendorf, the takeover is to take place officially in the next few months. July 1, 2022 is currently planned for this, which is also the intended end of the real break-up. “Then the locations are to be continued by a team of Real managers together with the Tischendorf entrepreneurial family under the ‘Real’ brand,” according to the Bundeskartellamt. (bs) *24RHINE is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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