The top German retailers are set to extend their already considerable influence over the national food market, so says Frankfurt/Main research agency M+M Eurodata.
Today, five organisations supply nearly two-thirds of the national food retail total: Metro (16.6%), Rewe (15.2%), Edeka (13.2%), Aldi (10.4%) and Tengelmann (7.4%).
This joint market share has increased by 18% in the last ten years and Eurodata forecasts that the figure will be up another 18% by 2010