date:Dec 04, 2013
The name of German discounter 'Aktiv Discount' will disappear. From December smaller branches will be called 'Edeka' and the larger branches 'E-Center'. The change to the Edeka format is the final step towards integration of the Aktiv discounters, explained Andreas Laubig, spokesman for Edeka Minden-Hannover. The 14 shops in the region were owned by Siegfried Schausberger but he sold these to Edeka in 2000. In the past the shops were run by branch managers, but nowadays through independent re