Penny (supermarket)
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Type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1973 |
Headquarters | Cologne, Germany |
Key people | Alain Caparros, managing director |
Products | Discount stores |
Revenue | ![]() |
Number of employees | 43,773 (2010) |
Parent | Rewe Group |
Website | www.penny.de |
Penny or internationally Penny Market (in Austria Penny Markt) is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany, which operates 3,550 stores.[1] The market was founded by in 1973; since 1989 it has been fully owned by the Rewe Group.[2]
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Penny store with new corporate branding in Hamburg, Germany
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Penny Markt
Operations[]
Country | Number of stores |
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Austria | 290[3] |
Czech Republic | 370 |
Germany | 2,250[1] |
Hungary | 223 |
Italy | 365 |
Romania | 300 |
- Penny Market exited the Bulgarian market on October 31, 2015.
See also[]
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Old logo between 2002 and 2014
References[]
- ^ a b Rewe Group. "Über uns" (in German). Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ^ Rewe Group. "Unternehmensgeschichte" (in German). Retrieved 2017-12-30.
- ^ Rewe Group. "Vertriebslinien - Penny Market" (in German). Retrieved 2015-03-22.
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- Companies based in Cologne
- Retail companies established in 1973
- Supermarkets of Austria
- Supermarkets of Bulgaria
- Supermarkets of the Czech Republic
- Supermarkets of Germany
- Supermarkets of Hungary
- Supermarkets of Italy
- Supermarkets of Romania
- German brands
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