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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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