Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Nord Opens Its New Store No. 1 in Essen-Schonnebeck
Aldi, Saatbruchstraße 55, Schonnebeck, 45309 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 12/10/2020CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE5.8 years agoThe release says Aldi Nord^[2] "eröffnet am 10. Dezember 2020" the direct successor of its historic store No. 1.
Aldi Nord moved its historic store No. 1 out of the Albrecht family's original shop on Huestraße into a new building on Saatbruchstraße, built to its updated store concept.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
First Store Built to a Shared Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd Design Opens in Wolfsburg
Aldi, Alte Schulstraße 30, Wendschott, 38448 Wolfsburg, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 11/27/2025 6:00AMCONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE301 days agoThe release says "Am 27.11.2025 um 7 Uhr öffnet ein neuer ALDI Markt in Wolfsburg" (07:00 CET).^[1]
Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.
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Retail09/24/2026@BuildDesk
Aldi Nord's New Lehrte-Aligse Logistics Centre Starts Supplying Stores
Aldi NordALDI Logistikzentrum Lehrte-Aligse, Am Schwarzen Kamp 1, Aligse, 31275 Lehrte, Germany
Starts 09/09/2024CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE2.0 years agoThe release says "Ab dem 09. September werden 77 ALDI Märkte ... aus dem neuen ... Logistikzentrum bei Lehrte-Aligse beliefert"; its PDF copy is dated 6 August 2024.^[1]
Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its 400th Store in Poland, in Tarnobrzeg
Aldi, Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego 14, Tarnobrzeg, 39-400, PolandAldi Nord
Starts 11/26/2025CONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE302 days agopropertynews.pl^[1]: '26 listopada sieć ALDI^[3] otworzyła 400. sklep w Polsce'.
Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.
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Property09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd Exhibit at Expo Real 2026 in Munich
Messe München, Am Messesee, Messestadt Riem, 81829 Munich, GermanyAldi Nord
10/05/2026 - 10/07/2026SCHEDULED 77% CONFIDENCEin 11 daysThe release says "Vom 5. bis 7. Oktober 2026 präsentiert ALDI auf der EXPO REAL^[2] in München (Halle B1, Stand 330)".
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd share a stand at Expo Real, Europe's biggest property fair, to pitch store sites, mixed-use buildings and sale-and-leaseback deals to investors and developers.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its First Store on a Former Shopping Cora Site, in Anderlecht
Drève Olympique - Olympische dreef 15, Anderlecht, 1070, BelgiumAldi Nord
Starts 07/22/2026CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE64 days agoAldi Belgium's release dated 22/07/2026: 'vandaag opent de eerste ALDI-winkel op één van de voormalige Shopping Cora^[2]-sites'.
Aldi Belgium opened a 1,200 m2 store at the former Shopping Cora centre on Drève Olympique in Anderlecht, the first of three Aldi stores in ex-Cora malls and a rare move by the discounter into Belgian shopping centres.
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Business09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Nicolás de Lope Succeeds Torsten Hufnagel as CEO of Aldi Nord
Aldi NordAldi Nord Campus, Eckenbergstraße 16b, Kray, 45307 Essen, Germany
Starts 01/01/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE266 days agoThe announcement says "Ab dem 1. Januar 2026 übernimmt Gruppenvorstandsmitglied Nicolás de Lope die Aufgaben des CEO von Torsten Hufnagel".^[1]
Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its First Checkout-Free Store, Shop & Go, in Utrecht
Lange Viestraat 2, Utrecht, 3511 BK, NetherlandsAldi Nord
Starts 07/20/2022CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoTrigo's release of 18 July 2022: 'On Wednesday, 20 July, ALDI^[4] Netherlands will open the doors of ALDI Shop & Go'; Gondola^[2] later: 'Midden juli 2022 opende Aldi in Utrecht de deuren'.
Aldi Netherlands opened Aldi Shop & Go, a 370 m2 app-only store in central Utrecht where Trigo's ceiling cameras and shelf sensors let shoppers take goods and walk out, paying automatically - the Aldi Nord group's first checkout-free test store.
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Business09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Lars Kürten Takes Over as Head of Aldi Nord Germany
Aldi Nord Campus, Eckenbergstraße 16b, Kray, 45307 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 04/01/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE176 days agoThe report says "Aldi Nord bekommt zum 1. April einen neuen Chef für das Deutschland-Geschäft", announced 25 February 2026.^[1]
Lars Kürten, previously deputy CEO of Aldi France, took charge of Aldi Nord's German business from Felix Rottmann, who stays on the group executive board.
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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Aldi Nord Gives 39,000 German Staff a 5.3% Raise Without a Wage Deal
Eckenbergstraße 16, 45307 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 10/01/2023CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE3.0 years agoAldi Nord says it raises wages "freiwillig ab dem 1.10.2023" and that monthly tariff pay "steigen ab Oktober um 5,3 Prozent".^[1]
With the 2023 retail pay talks stuck, Aldi Nord raised tariff pay for its more than 39,000 store staff in Germany by 5.3% from 1 October, to be set against whatever ver.di and the employers finally agreed.
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Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Aldi Closes Its Best Distribution Centre and Office, Cutting 150 Jobs
Best, North Brabant, NetherlandsAldi Nord
Starts 06/02/2021CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoRetailTrends^[1], published Thursday 3 June 2021, says the employees "zijn woensdag op de hoogte gebracht", which is Wednesday 2 June 2021.
Aldi Nederland told about 150 office staff, warehouse workers and drivers in Best that their distribution centre, judged not future-proof, would close at the end of 2021, with its stores moving to Culemborg, Roermond and Roosendaal.
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Retail09/24/2026@BuildDesk
Aldi Polska Opens Its Third Distribution Centre, at Emilianów
Centrum Dystrybucyjne Aldi, Komandora Wiktora Węgrzyna 7, Emilianów, gmina Radzymin, 05-250, PolandAldi Nord
Starts 02/26/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE210 days agoAldi^[1] Polska: '26 lutego symbolicznie przecięto wstęgę Centrum Dystrybucyjnego sieci w Emilianowie'; investmap^[3] dated the report 26 February 2026.
Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.
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The release of 9 March 2022 says "Heute Vormittag wurde der neue ALDI Campus in Essen-Kray eröffnet".^[1]

Start: Mar 9, 202290% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Aldi Nord Opens Its New Headquarters Campus in Essen-Kray

Aldi Nord officially opened a 100,000-square-metre headquarters campus on Eckenbergstraße in Essen-Kray after almost three years of construction, with room for up to 2,000 staff.

Aldi Nord's new campus on Eckenbergstraße in Essen-Kray opened on the morning of 9 March 2022, with Essen mayor Thomas Kufen cutting the ribbon^[1][2].
Construction took almost three years; the move had already begun and the first employees would work there from April^[1][2].
Torsten Janke, managing director of Albrecht KG and client for the project, said it was finished on budget and on schedule despite the pandemic^[1].
It is the administrative building of ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. oHG and a symbol of the group's transformation programme^[1].

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100,000 m² of building complex, about the size of 14 football pitches^[1].
About 1,200 fixed workplaces in the main building, fewer than 50 single offices, room for up to 2,000 staff over time^[1].
Mostly open-space offices and co-working areas, a lecture hall, staff restaurant, fitness pavilion and a central plaza^[1].
Green roofs, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and EV charging; a daycare centre opened in August 2021 with 80% of places for employees' children^[1].
Designed by Jessica Borchardt (BAID Architektur, Hamburg); detailed design by Gerber Architekten; general contractor MBN Bau AG^[1].

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presseportal.de· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Mar 9, 2022 ✓· 100% of score
The release of 9 March 2022 says "Heute Vormittag wurde der neue ALDI Campus in Essen-Kray eröffnet".
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Feierliche Eröffnung des ALDI Nord Campus in Essen-Kray (FreshPlaza)
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Reports the official opening in the presence of Essen's mayor and the 100,000 m² size, and that first staff work there from April.^[1]

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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Nord Opens Its New Store No. 1 in Essen-Schonnebeck
Aldi, Saatbruchstraße 55, Schonnebeck, 45309 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 12/10/2020CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE5.8 years agoThe release says Aldi Nord^[2] "eröffnet am 10. Dezember 2020" the direct successor of its historic store No. 1.
Aldi Nord moved its historic store No. 1 out of the Albrecht family's original shop on Huestraße into a new building on Saatbruchstraße, built to its updated store concept.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
First Store Built to a Shared Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd Design Opens in Wolfsburg
Aldi, Alte Schulstraße 30, Wendschott, 38448 Wolfsburg, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 11/27/2025 6:00AMCONFIRMED 89% CONFIDENCE301 days agoThe release says "Am 27.11.2025 um 7 Uhr öffnet ein neuer ALDI Markt in Wolfsburg" (07:00 CET).^[1]
Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.
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Retail09/24/2026@BuildDesk
Aldi Nord's New Lehrte-Aligse Logistics Centre Starts Supplying Stores
Aldi NordALDI Logistikzentrum Lehrte-Aligse, Am Schwarzen Kamp 1, Aligse, 31275 Lehrte, Germany
Starts 09/09/2024CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE2.0 years agoThe release says "Ab dem 09. September werden 77 ALDI Märkte ... aus dem neuen ... Logistikzentrum bei Lehrte-Aligse beliefert"; its PDF copy is dated 6 August 2024.^[1]
Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its 400th Store in Poland, in Tarnobrzeg
Aldi, Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego 14, Tarnobrzeg, 39-400, PolandAldi Nord
Starts 11/26/2025CONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE302 days agopropertynews.pl^[1]: '26 listopada sieć ALDI^[3] otworzyła 400. sklep w Polsce'.
Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.
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Property09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd Exhibit at Expo Real 2026 in Munich
Messe München, Am Messesee, Messestadt Riem, 81829 Munich, GermanyAldi Nord
10/05/2026 - 10/07/2026SCHEDULED 77% CONFIDENCEin 11 daysThe release says "Vom 5. bis 7. Oktober 2026 präsentiert ALDI auf der EXPO REAL^[2] in München (Halle B1, Stand 330)".
Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd share a stand at Expo Real, Europe's biggest property fair, to pitch store sites, mixed-use buildings and sale-and-leaseback deals to investors and developers.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its First Store on a Former Shopping Cora Site, in Anderlecht
Drève Olympique - Olympische dreef 15, Anderlecht, 1070, BelgiumAldi Nord
Starts 07/22/2026CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE64 days agoAldi Belgium's release dated 22/07/2026: 'vandaag opent de eerste ALDI-winkel op één van de voormalige Shopping Cora^[2]-sites'.
Aldi Belgium opened a 1,200 m2 store at the former Shopping Cora centre on Drève Olympique in Anderlecht, the first of three Aldi stores in ex-Cora malls and a rare move by the discounter into Belgian shopping centres.
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Business09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Nicolás de Lope Succeeds Torsten Hufnagel as CEO of Aldi Nord
Aldi NordAldi Nord Campus, Eckenbergstraße 16b, Kray, 45307 Essen, Germany
Starts 01/01/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE266 days agoThe announcement says "Ab dem 1. Januar 2026 übernimmt Gruppenvorstandsmitglied Nicolás de Lope die Aufgaben des CEO von Torsten Hufnagel".^[1]
Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.
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Retail09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Aldi Opens Its First Checkout-Free Store, Shop & Go, in Utrecht
Lange Viestraat 2, Utrecht, 3511 BK, NetherlandsAldi Nord
Starts 07/20/2022CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoTrigo's release of 18 July 2022: 'On Wednesday, 20 July, ALDI^[4] Netherlands will open the doors of ALDI Shop & Go'; Gondola^[2] later: 'Midden juli 2022 opende Aldi in Utrecht de deuren'.
Aldi Netherlands opened Aldi Shop & Go, a 370 m2 app-only store in central Utrecht where Trigo's ceiling cameras and shelf sensors let shoppers take goods and walk out, paying automatically - the Aldi Nord group's first checkout-free test store.
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Business09/24/2026@RetailDesk
Lars Kürten Takes Over as Head of Aldi Nord Germany
Aldi Nord Campus, Eckenbergstraße 16b, Kray, 45307 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 04/01/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE176 days agoThe report says "Aldi Nord bekommt zum 1. April einen neuen Chef für das Deutschland-Geschäft", announced 25 February 2026.^[1]
Lars Kürten, previously deputy CEO of Aldi France, took charge of Aldi Nord's German business from Felix Rottmann, who stays on the group executive board.
0.66
Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Aldi Nord Gives 39,000 German Staff a 5.3% Raise Without a Wage Deal
Eckenbergstraße 16, 45307 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
Starts 10/01/2023CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE3.0 years agoAldi Nord says it raises wages "freiwillig ab dem 1.10.2023" and that monthly tariff pay "steigen ab Oktober um 5,3 Prozent".^[1]
With the 2023 retail pay talks stuck, Aldi Nord raised tariff pay for its more than 39,000 store staff in Germany by 5.3% from 1 October, to be set against whatever ver.di and the employers finally agreed.
0.64
Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk
Aldi Closes Its Best Distribution Centre and Office, Cutting 150 Jobs
Best, North Brabant, NetherlandsAldi Nord
Starts 06/02/2021CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoRetailTrends^[1], published Thursday 3 June 2021, says the employees "zijn woensdag op de hoogte gebracht", which is Wednesday 2 June 2021.
Aldi Nederland told about 150 office staff, warehouse workers and drivers in Best that their distribution centre, judged not future-proof, would close at the end of 2021, with its stores moving to Culemborg, Roermond and Roosendaal.
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Retail09/24/2026@BuildDesk
Aldi Polska Opens Its Third Distribution Centre, at Emilianów
Centrum Dystrybucyjne Aldi, Komandora Wiktora Węgrzyna 7, Emilianów, gmina Radzymin, 05-250, PolandAldi Nord
Starts 02/26/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE210 days agoAldi^[1] Polska: '26 lutego symbolicznie przecięto wstęgę Centrum Dystrybucyjnego sieci w Emilianowie'; investmap^[3] dated the report 26 February 2026.
Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.
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