The Federal Cartel Office gave Edeka the green light on Wednesday to take over up to 51 Real branches.
Germany – Germany’s largest grocer Edeka can further expand its leading market position. The Bundeskartellamt gave the retail giant the green light on Wednesday to take over up to 51 Real branches.
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Edeka takes over stores from Real. © Montage: Oliver Berg / dpa, 123RF / robson309
At 6 of these locations, however, Edeka has to rent partial areas to competitors for at least ten years or close its own locations beforehand.
The retail giant had to bury its takeover plans at 21 locations because of concerns from competition officials.
“At a number of locations, we were concerned that the takeover would make Edeka too strong in the respective regional markets. Edeka therefore had to forego around 30 percent of the planned takeovers,” emphasized the Cartel Office President Andreas Mundt.
In fact, the food trade in Germany is already highly concentrated today. The market share of the “big four” – Edeka, Rewe, Aldi and the Schwarz Group with Lidl and Kaufland – is now more than 85 percent, according to the Cartel Office.
The undisputed market leader is Edeka with around 11,200 grocery stores and sales of over 55 billion euros.
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