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Kaufland wants to take over branches from Real: Now Edeka and an arch-rival turn on

With Globus, the Russian investor SCP Group already has four candidates who are now taking over Real branches.

SCP had already announced that it would sell 141 of the 270 real stores to Kaufland and Edeka – 88 to Kaufland, 53 to Edeka. The employees should be taken over.

But it could now go even better for SCP. According to industry information, Kaufland is said to have shown interest in 101 markets. Edeka, on the other hand – according to a report by the “Lebensmittel Zeitung” is now even planning to take over 70 stores and wants to submit this to the Cartel Office.

CHIP suspects: Edeka and Kaufland have a larger number of markets in their sights in order to ultimately reach the desired number 88 and 53.

In advance, real estate experts from Munich had already ruled out that the cartel office would give the green light to all branches. The guardians of the competition could express concerns, particularly in rural areas.

If Kaufland and Edeka submit a longer list to the Bundeskartellamt and the authorities have expressed concerns about a small part of the markets, there would be at least a buffer to ultimately reach the desired number of 88 branches for Kaufland and 53 branches for Edeka.

Rewe apparently only wants to move into real space as a tenant. But the talks are apparently difficult, as reported by the LZ.

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