Netto Marken-Discount (also known as just Netto, formerly Plus) is a German discount supermarket chain owned by the German supermarket cooperative Edeka Group, and operates mostly in the south and west of Germany. The company reached its 1000th store in 2004, then aggressively expanded to the 4000th store in 2009, making it the largest discounter in Germany.[3]
History
The company was founded by Michael Schels in Regensburg in 1928 as a food wholesaler. In 1971, the first own retail branch was opened under the name SuDi (SuperDiscount) in Beilngries, and further branches followed until 1983.
The Netto discount concept was developed in 1983 and implemented in the first supermarket in Regensburg. The 50 SuDi branches that already existed at that time were successively converted to the new concept by 1990.
In 2009, the Edeka Group completed the acquisition of the Plus supermarket chain, converting the Plus supermarket locations into Netto supermarkets.[4][5]