Founded in Mülheim in 1867, the Tengelmann Group is now an international retail group in its fifth generation of family ownership. The group comprises the discount food retailer Plus (3,716 outlets in six countries), the supermarket Kaiser’s Tengelmann (699 outlets in Germany), the DIY store OBI (515 outlets in eleven countries), the discounter KiK (2,504 outlets in four countries) and the US supermarket A&P. Worldwide the group employs some 170,000 staff. Since 1968 the group’s owners have continually strengthened their commitment to the environment. In the 1980s the group won acclaim for its efforts to remove CFCs and phosphates from its product lines, while today the focus is on fighting climate change.

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