After a price dispute with brand manufacturers: Edeka is expanding its own brand production

Dusseldorf The Schwarz Group with its retail chains Lidl and Kaufland is not only the fourth largest retailer in the world. It is also one of the really big producers of food: With mineral springs, chocolate factories, large bakeries, nut roasting plants and ice cream producers, it makes an annual turnover of 2.5 billion euros.

She is still a pioneer in the industry. But now the competition is waking up and also getting into in-house production on a large scale. And at the forefront is market leader Edeka.

Now the dealer has struck again: On April 1, the Edeka subsidiary Sonnländer will take over the Siegsdorfer Petrusquelle from the previous owner, the Staatliche Mineralbrunnen AG. The retailer is thus reacting to bottlenecks in the supply of sparkling water for its own brands – and is improving its position of power in disputes with manufacturers over purchase prices.

Edeka has sausage factories, large bakeries and mineral springs