Billa
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Austrian supermarket chain that operates throughout Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Key facts
- Company type
- Private
- Industry
- Retail
- Founded
- 1953 ; 73 years ago ( 1953 )
- Headquarters
- Wiener Neudorf , Lower Austria , Austria
- Number of locations
- 3,645 stores (2014)
- Key people
- Robert Nagele, Elke Wilgmann
- Products
- Supermarkets
- Revenue
- € 13.02 billion (2014)
- Owner
- REWE International AG
- Number of employees
- 76,174 (2014)
- Website
- www.billa.at
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Billa at Vienna airport Billa flagship store in Vienna
BILLA ( German pronunciation: [ˈbɪla] ) is an Austrian supermarket chain that operates in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. The company was founded by Karl Wlaschek in 1953. He sold his controlling interest to Germany's REWE Group in 1996.
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