With 600,000 employees in 32 countries and a turnover of €176 billion, Schwarz Group is a leading retailer. Based in Germany, the group's pillars in food retailing are Lidl and Kaufland. Following a holistic approach to act ahead in the way it thinks and acts, the company is also active in food production through Schwarz Produktion and environmental services through PreZero. This makes it one of only a few retailers to cover the entire value chain, from production and retail to disposal and recycling. Schwarz Group also offers digital services such as the STACKIT sovereign European Cloud via Schwarz Digits.