From April 1, 2025 onward, Lidl, Kaufland, PreZero Stiftung, Schwarz Digits and Schwarz Corporate Solutions will increase the monthly pay of their apprentices, high school graduate program participants, and integrated degree program students by EUR 150 gross.

January 7, 2025 will see the opening of "S | Medical Center", a new healthcare facility at Stiftsberg in Neckarsulm. The center will focus on primary and specialist GP care and preventative medicine, offering quick access to first-rate physicians and high-quality healthcare.

Google and the companies of Schwarz Group today announced plans for a long-term partnership. The strategic partnership will cover major dimensions for secure and sovereign digital transformation, including best-in-class collaboration and productivity solutions and advanced cyber security offerings in Germany and Europe.

The companies of Schwarz Group will be entering into a long-term strategic partnership with the Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) as of 2025. The cooperation covers a range of areas, such as healthy and conscious nutrition, digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, cloud services as well as the circular economy and sustainability.

At Expo Real 2024 from October 7 to 9, 2024 (Hall C2, Stand 440), visitors will gain insights into the diverse offers and cooperation opportunities with the companies of Schwarz Group. In the Career Day section (Stand 4), Schwarz Immobilien Service, together with the other companies of Schwarz Group, will present itself as an employer in the real estate sector.

Acting Ahead instead of just thinking ahead: In the Sustainability Report for the fiscal years (FY) 2022 and 2023, which was published today, the Companies of Schwarz Group inform on their joint sustainability commitment.

Bundesliga heavyweight VfB Stuttgart and the companies of Schwarz Group have partnered up to conserve resources and promote digital sovereignty in professional soccer.

The companies of Schwarz Group are reducing their use of new plastic for store equipment. In future, shopping baskets – both roller baskets and hand-held baskets – of the Lidl and Kaufland retail divisions will be made mostly from reprocessed post-consumer recycled material from the environmental division PreZero instead of from new plastic.

Electric fever broke out in Möckmühl: On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, the companies of Schwarz Group hosted the first “Future Day” event on the premises of the Kaufland logistics center in Möckmühl.

The companies of Schwarz Group had a successful fiscal year, generating revenue of 167.2 billion euros across all business units (revenue up 8.5%). Higher prices due to inflation, improved processes and further digitalization made it possible to generate additional revenue with the same number of employees (575,000).

RCD Mallorca and the companies of Schwarz Group PreZero and XM Cyber are setting an example for a more careful use of resources in sport and digital security in Spanish professional football.

As employers in the retail industry bound by collective bargaining agreements, the companies of Schwarz Group with their retail divisions, Lidl and Kaufland, attach great importance to fair remuneration.

Because they are aware of their great responsibility with regard to sustainability, the companies of Schwarz Group are involved in numerous initiatives and projects aimed at minimizing the use of natural resources and promoting both renewable energy and social justice.

Technology is fundamentally changing our everyday life, society, and business. In the companies of Schwarz Group, technological innovations play an important role in terms of expanding their position as one of the world’s leading retail groups. Secure and sovereign AI is a key technology in this regard.

In addition to the familiar divisions Lidl, Kaufland, PreZero, and Schwarz Produktion, “Schwarz Digits” will now spearhead all matters related to IT and digitalization.

For the third time in a row, Schwarz Dienstleistungen is organizing its own career fair together with the retail divisions Lidl and Kaufland: future_con.

Thanks to their transnational cooperation and diverse set of measures, the companies of Schwarz Group are making great strides toward achieving the goals of their joint group-wide REset Plastic strategy.

With two new CEOs, the management team of the companies of Schwarz Group is paving the way for the future.

FC Bayern Munich and companies of Schwarz Group join forces in taking responsibility for using resources more sparingly in the sport and for the digital safety of the club and its fans. The long-term partnership is also intended to raise awareness among FC Bayern fans for recycling and circular economy.

STACKIT, the digital brand of Schwarz IT, organized its first customer and partner event at Bildungscampus in Heilbronn on 28 June. Under the motto “Xperience.Xchange.Xplore.” the guests were able to take a look behind the scenes of the STACKIT cloud.

Today, the retail divisions of the Schwarz Group, Lidl and Kaufland, signed a “Pact against Food Waste” together with the BMEL, the Federal Association of the German Retail Grocery Trade (BVLH), and other industry representatives in Berlin.

In the German economy alone, hacker attacks cause more than EUR 200 billion in damages each year. However, a large share of these damages could be avoided by implementing appropriate security measures. This was the conclusion in the Cyber Security Report presented by Schwarz Digital for the first time.

The companies of Schwarz Group successfully closed the 2022 fiscal year, generating EUR 154.1 billion in revenue with their 575,000 employees across all business segments (revenue increase: 15.4 percent).

The companies of Schwarz Group yesterday announced a strategic partnership with SAP that aims to eliminate potential attack paths across business-critical applications. The partnership focuses on the security solutions developed by XM Cyber, a Schwarz Group company.

Lidl and Kaufland are making progress toward achieving their climate targets by signing a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with RWE Supply & Trading for roughly 250 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year starting in 2028.

120 decision-makers from the worlds of business, science, politics, intelligence, and law enforcement turned the experimenta science center in Heilbronn into the German center for cybersecurity on 22 and 23 March.

In their sustainability report, which was released today, the companies of Schwarz Group show how they assume economic, ecological, and social responsibility in their day-to-day activities.

The companies of Schwarz Group are deeply saddened by the disaster in Turkey and Syria and are contributing a donation of one million euro in emergency relief for the victims of the earthquake in the region.

For many years, Lidl and Kaufland have been advocating for better animal welfare and environmental protection, in addition to a transparent welfare label. The two retail divisions of the Schwarz Group are among the founding members of the ITW animal welfare initiative.