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- ▶ 1:54:54 David Rosenthal And they sold it to Theo Albrecht, the owner of Aldi Nord, which is one half of the Aldi global megastore super chain headquartered in Germany.
- ▶ 1:55:45 David Rosenthal The relationship that owns Trader Joe's is the founder of Aldi Nord, the other half.
- ▶ 1:55:52 Ben Gilbert And the entity Aldi Nord never actually bought Trader Joe's.
- ▶ 1:58:47 David Rosenthal The other brother's company was the one doing this, not Aldi Nord, Theo Albrecht's company.
- ▶ 1:59:11 David Rosenthal So Teo and Aldi Nord, they start looking at the US market too.
- ▶ 1:59:13 David Rosenthal They actually hire investment bankers to go over from Germany and start scouring the US looking for other grocers or retailers in the US that they could acquire and have Aldi Nord also enter.
- ▶ 2:00:50 David Rosenthal You won't use Trader Joe's as a vehicle for Aldi Nord to come to America.