Lektion 23 : Karl Albrecht, Donaueschingen, 24.4 Billion $
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Albrecht co-founded Aldi, the closely held discount supermarket chain, with his brother Theo, in 1960. The brothers split the company later that decade, with Karl Albrecht keeping Aldi Sued, whose 4,500 stores worldwide generate about $41 billion in annual sales. His nephew, Theo Albrecht Jr., and the family of Berthold Albrecht, own Aldi Nord.
Aldi was divided into North and South along Germany’s Ruhr river.
Hobbies include golf, raising orchids, collecting antique typewriters.
Aldi divide followed a brotherly feud whether to sell cigarettes in store.
Family paid kidnappers 7 million Deutsche Mark to free brother Theo in 1971.
Theo failed to write off ransom as company expense.
Served in German army during WWII; wounded on Russian front.
Karl Albrecht’s fortune is derived from his ownership of Aldi Sued, the second-largest discount food retailer in Germany. The company had revenue of about $41 billion in 2011, almost half of which was generated in Germany. The firm controls 77 operating companies and almost 4,500 stores.
The valuation of Aldi Sued is based on an average of enterprise value-to-Ebitda, enterprise value-to-sales and price-to-earnings multiples of five comparable publicly traded companies, Tesco, Metro, Casino, Dia and Sainsbury’s.
Albrecht controls all of Aldi Sued through three trusts: Siepmann, Carolus and Oertel. The Siepmann trust, which was formed in 1973 in Eichenau, a Munich suburb, and named after Albrecht’s mother’s family, holds 74 percent of the company. It is headed by his daughter, Beate Heister, and his grandson, Peter Max Heister. The trust came under scrutiny in 2003, when the Bavarian tax authorities claimed it had undervalued its real estate by 3.5 billion euros and owed as much as 1 billion euros in back taxes. A settlement for an undisclosed amount was reached.
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