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Aldi France Completes Its Purchase of 545 Leader Price Stores
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.8 years agoCasino's release 'Paris, le 30 novembre 2020': 'Le groupe Casino[1][4] a finalisé la cession à ALDI France'; 648 million euros 'perçus ce jour'.Aldi France closed its purchase of 545 Leader Price stores, 2 Casino supermarkets and 3 warehouses from Casino for EUR 717 million, the biggest expansion in its history, with the stores converted to Aldi through 2021.€717M0.83Aldi Pays EUR 350,000 Over Fake Discounts in Nine Seine-Saint-Denis Stores
ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE125 days agoThe DGCCRF notice is undated; the Internet Archive's[3] first capture of it is from 22 May 2026, and econostrum[1] reported it on 26 May, so the pin takes the latest date the notice was certainly public.France's consumer-fraud inspectors found nine Aldi stores in Seine-Saint-Denis inflating reference prices and running "promotions" for an average of 288 days; Aldi's Dammartin buying centre accepted a EUR 350,000 settlement fine.€350K0.71Aldi Portugal Targets 200 Stores and a Santo Tirso Hub by 2030
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsDiário Imobiliário: 'pretende atingir 200 supermercados até 2030' and the Santo Tirso platform is 'prevista para 2030' - a year, so its last day, estimated.[1]Aldi Portugal plans to grow from 161 stores at the end of 2025 to 200 by 2030 and open a new northern logistics platform in Santo Tirso the same year, part of a EUR 500 million plan to reach 250 stores by 2035.0.67Danish Regulator Clears Rema 1000's Takeover of 114 Aldi Stores
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.1 years agoKFST[1] press release dated 30 August 2023: 'derfor godkender Konkurrencerådet fusionen i dag'.Denmark's Competition Council approved Rema 1000's purchase of 114 Aldi stores, seven store projects and three distribution centres after Rema pledged to sell stores in a few local areas, starting Aldi's final three months in Denmark.0.63Aldi Nord's New Lehrte-Aligse Logistics Centre Starts Supplying Stores
CONFIRMED90% 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.0.63Aldi Opens Its 500th Store in Spain, in Mijas
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE204 days agoAldi[1] Spain's release: 'Mijas, 4 de marzo de 2026-. ALDI alcanza hoy las 500 tiendas en España.'Aldi reached 500 stores in Spain with a 1,200 m2 supermarket in Mijas (Málaga), 24 years after entering the country - also the 5,555th store of the whole Aldi Nord group.0.63Aldi Nord to Leave Denmark, Selling 114 Stores to Rema 1000
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoAldi Danmark's release stamped 9.12.2022 17:41:59 CET: 'ALDI har besluttet at trække sig fra det danske marked og indgået en aftale med REMA 1000'.[1]Aldi announced it will quit Denmark after 45 years, selling 114 of its 188 Danish stores and three logistics centres to Norway's Rema 1000 and closing or selling the rest during 2023.0.62Aldi Belgium Tells Unions It Wants Every Store Open Sunday Mornings
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE113 days agoVRT[1] NWS, published Wednesday 3 June 2026, says spokesman Jason Sevestre confirms the plan and that it was the first time Aldi had informed the unions of its concrete plans.Aldi presented unions with a plan to open all its Belgian stores on Sundays from 8:30 to 13:00, staffed by volunteers paid a premium or given extra leave; unions said the hours break the Sunday closing law.0.61Aldi Closes Its Best Distribution Centre and Office, Cutting 150 Jobs
CONFIRMED90% 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.0.61Aldi Opens Its First Store on a Former Shopping Cora Site, in Anderlecht
CONFIRMED82% 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.0.61Sands Macao Opens, Ending Stanley Ho's Gambling Monopoly
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE22.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the company "opened the $265 million Sands Macau in May 2004," ending "Mr Ho's 42-year monopoly over the industry."The $265M Sands Macao opened as the city's first Las Vegas-style resort, ending Stanley Ho's 42-year gambling monopoly and starting Macau's transformation into the world's densest gaming hub.$265M0.60Aramco Signs $3.7 Billion in Deals With French Companies in Paris
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