Gottlieb trading company

The Gottlieb-Handelsgesellschaft mbH is a former German food retail company based in Freiburg . The company, founded in 1871, became part of the Edeka Group in 1992 .

history

The first shop with this name was opened in Saarbrücken in 1871 after the turner Ludwig Gottlieb took over an existing business. In subsequent years, he opened with the participation of his sons Ludwig jr., Heinrich Gottlieb and his son-Andreas Günther Friedrich (gen. Fritz ) Francke more food and Consum businesses. Even before the First World War, the L. Gottlieb company set up a branch network with over 300 stores from St. Johann , which stretched from Luxembourg via Alsace-Lorraine to Basel. After the First World War, businesses in Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg were lost. The remaining parts of the company were continued independently by the descendants of the Francke family branch in Saarland and those of the Gottlieb family in the Freiburg area.

In 1969 the Saarbrücken company Gottlieb was taken over by the Freiburg branch. In 1985, most of the Saarland branch of the company with around 35 branches was sold to the Tengelmann Group , which continued to operate the sites under the Plus brand . In 1987 the last family partner, Ellen Gottlieb-Schramm, sold the remaining part to the former Bremen retail chain Kafu-Wasmund ; this continued the name Gottlieb, but got caught up in the vortex of the Coop scandal . The company should then also be sold to the Tengelmann Group; However, in 1989 the Federal Cartel Office prohibited the sale. In 1992, the Edeka group took over the Gottlieb branches and renamed them under the various Edeka brands.

At times the company had over 3,000 employees and 135 branches. Before it was taken over by Edeka, it had generated sales of around DM 600 million with significant market positions in Freiburg, Emmendingen, Konstanz and Lörrach.

Web links

saar-nostalgie.de: L. Gottlieb GmbH (July 15, 2012)
Joachim Röderer: Mourning the former boss of the Gottlieb markets. : badische-zeitung.de, Local, Freiburg, August 2, 2011 (July 15, 2012)
arr: Five decades in retail. : badische-zeitung.de, Local, Emmendingen, May 7, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ Activity report of the Federal Cartel Office 1989/90. (pdf; 4.5 MB) Retrieved September 11, 2012 (page 96).
↑ Activity report of the Federal Cartel Office 1991/92. (pdf; 5.5 MB) Retrieved September 11, 2012 (page 117).

[1] Activity report of the Federal Cartel Office 1989/90. (pdf; 4.5 MB) Retrieved September 11, 2012 (page 96).

[2] Activity report of the Federal Cartel Office 1991/92. (pdf; 5.5 MB) Retrieved September 11, 2012 (page 117).