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Country: Germany

  • German group which controls the Lidl and Kaufland supermarket chains
  • Active in the food industry
  • Expanding into data centers with Schwartz Digit
  • Around 60,000 employees in 32 countries

News

Discount king Lidl becomes a cloud provider 15/01/2024

  • Lidl's parent company, the Schwarz Group, aims to become a national cloud champion by targeting German SMEs
  • Creation of a European center for artificial intelligence In Heilbronn, southern Germany, the Schwarz Foundation is investing 2 billion euros.
  • A new campus designed to train 5,000 IT specialists by 2025 is being built just a few kilometers from Heilbronn.
  • The Schwarz Group intends to become a national cloud champion.
  • Under the name "Stackit", the IT branch of the Schwarz Group markets the cloud services originally created to manage the data of its own Lidl stores.
  • With its 20,000 servers serving 13,700 Lidl and Kaufland sites in some 30 countries, the Schwarz Group already provides Stackit with a solid foundation for the future
  • Acquisition of development specialist Camao IDC and Israeli start-up XM Cyber
  • the Schwarz Group invests €8 billion a year, out of sales of €154 billion, in "strategic and forward-looking projects, including digitization
  • Schwarz Digit employs 4,500 people

Studies mentioning this company

The data center market - France

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  • OVH
  • AWS Amazon Web Services
  • ILIAD
  • EQUINIX
  • Interxion
  • APL Data center
  • Jerlaure
  • Wattdesign
  • Adista - Inherent
  • Etix Everywhere
  • Data4 service
  • Marseille, Hub digital
  • Altice
  • Celeste Telecom
  • Scaleway (Iliad Groupe)
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Schwartz Group (Lidll Kaufland, Schwartz Digit)
  • Snowflake Computing
  • XEFI
  • NTT Nippon Telecom
  • Evernex
  • Green4Cloud