Lidl was initially started by a member of the Schwarz family as a food distributor in Germany in the 1930s. ¹⁾

The full name of Lidl is Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG. ²⁾

In 1973 Lidl has opened it's first shops. ³⁾

By 1977, Germany had 33 Lidl shops. ⁴⁾

Lidl became a household name in all of Germany in the 1980s. ⁵⁾

In the 1990s Lidl started to establish shops all throughout Europe and now almost every nation in Europe has Lidl shops.⁶⁾

Lidl is currently famous as Europe's major distributor of food products. ⁷⁾