Plus (supermarket)

Plus Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH

Type	GmbH
Industry	Food retailing
Founded	1972
Headquarters	Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Key people	Michael Hürter
Revenue	€ 10 bn (2006)
Website	www.plus-online.de

Plus was a German supermarket chain founded in 1972. It operated 2,840 stores in Germany with an approximate 27,000 employees and about 1,200 stores in several other European countries. The Edeka Group and the Tengelmann Group entered a joint venture to own Plus supermarket chain on November 16, 2007, which resulted in 70% of Plus supermarket being owned by the Edeka Group and 30% owned by the Tengelmann Group.

As of January 2009, Plus supermarket chain owned by Edeka group was remodeled into Netto Marken-Discount supermarket chain branch, while the Tengelmannn Group's supermarkets were bought by Lidl, Spar, Carrefour, etc.

Plus in Europe

Country	First supermarket	Number of supermarkets
Germany	1972	2840
Austria	2003	3551
Spain (all Spanish stores were bought by Dia)	1994	238
Poland (all Polish stores were bought by Jerónimo Martins)	1995	183
Czech Republic (all Czech stores were bought by REWE)	1992	134
Romania (all Romanian stores were bought by Lidl)	2005	120
Bulgaria (all Bulgarian stores were bought by Lidl)	2009	25 (200 planned)
Hungary (all Hungarian stores were bought by Spar)	1992	174

¹ including the projected number of stores being planned

External links

• Plus Supermarket <redirected to Netto>