Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG

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Lidl is a privately-owned German discount supermarket chain, which operates 10,000+ stores across Europe and the USA. Dieter Schwarz controls Lidl, and also owns the store chain Handelshof and hypermarket Kaufland.

Linkback: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Plastic Pollution

Inequality in Supply Chains:
(2018)[1]    Transparency: 8%   Workers: 2%   Farmers: 8%   Women: 0% 

Company

Shareholders

ToDo: Schwarz Gruppe GmbH, Dieter Schwarz

Structure

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Controversies & Conflicts

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Plastic Packaging

  • Jan.14.2018: What are supermarkets doing to fight plastic? Plastic waste is "one of the great environmental scourges of our time". These are the words of Prime Minister Theresa May, who has pledged to ban all avoidable plastic waste in the UK by 2042. Despite extending the 5p charge on single-use plastic bags, major retailers in England still sold 2.1bn in the last financial year. But organisations like Greenpeace UK are sceptical about the plan, citing Mrs May's "vague aspirations". So what are Britain's 10 biggest supermarkets doing to combat the "scourge" of plastic? Lidl says it is in the process of setting targets for plastic waste. It removed microbeads from all its cosmetic and household products last year, and has also committed to switching to biodegradable cotton buds. For the last 24 years it has charged for plastic carrier bags, and it stopped selling single-use bags last year. BBC News.

Articles

  • Mar.02.2005: Every Lidl hurts. The super-low prices of Lidl, Europe's answer to Wal-Mart come at a cost: the rights, wages and dignity of the company's workforce. According to Uni Commerce (international umbrella organisation of retail unions), Lidl is trying to copy Wal-Mart's model of "pressing down wages and benefits and squeezing as much as is possible from its personnel". Chris Leach, Red Pepper.

Timelines

ToDo: Founded in Germany in the 1930s, it opened its first discount store in 1973.

References

  1. ^ Ripe for Change. Oxfam launches a new campaign to expose the root causes behind human suffering in food supply chains, and to mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it, starting with a focus on the role of supermarkets. The Supermarkets Scorecard is on page 24. Robin Willoughby, Tim Gore, Oxfam International, Jun.21.2018.