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puddicat | 22:43 Mon 09th Jun 2008 | ChatterBank
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Some one at work said that these too companies were started by two brothers who fell out, is that true are they telling porkies!
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Doesn't look like it.

ALDI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

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LIDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl
22:50 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Thanks just looked myself where did they this load of rubbish, right enough m&s could be the stepsister of woolies!
22:52 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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No urban myth


22:52 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Perhaps they were thinking of the Dassler brothers?
22:53 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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go on kempie tell us more who are they!
22:53 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Adolf 'Adi' Dassler = Adidas
Rudolf Dassler = PUMA
22:55 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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haha.. what a random conversation topic anyway!
i love it !:P
I always thought they were, interesting of you to ask. i will go find out for myself
and is it true that about the M&S and Woolies???? lol
22:56 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Kempie i hunger for knowledge, hang on not that knowledge"i mean is there a juicy story about these two brothers?
22:58 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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No. Both are German companies, and the main competitor of each other, but founded and managed by separate families.
23:00 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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werentbthre 2 brothers from jersey that owned kwik save originally ?


or some other supermarket lol
23:02 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Some other one - my answer's right!!
23:03 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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i can remember seeing something about brand names and how they got them like adidas thought it was like tgi fridays, thanks god its friday, am i wrong know its got a posh title this kind of thing but my brain is tired, not long finished work!
23:04 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Kwik Save was founded by a Welshman who used a business model based partly on that employed by... Aldi.
23:06 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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Makes you wonder what aldi means also lidls maybe its like adidas
23:08 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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From the wiki links...

ALDI = ALbrecht DIscount (Karl & Theo Albrecht)
Lidl = Ludwig Lidl
23:15 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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damn it thought there would be some interresting facts from some of our newer stores,anyone got any info on tkmax they are obviously not from these shores
23:20 Mon 09th Jun 2008
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ADIDAS: All day I dream about sport (aparantly).
07:05 Tue 10th Jun 2008

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