Obituaries
Karl Albrecht, a reclusive German billionaire who with his younger brother Theo turned his mother’s corner store into a worldwide grocery empire, has died.
July 21, 2014
Albrecht and brother Karl built their fortunes on Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi. A family trust bought Trader Joe’s in 1979.
March 10, 2014
Theo Albrecht dies at 88; German billionaire was co-owner of Trader Joe’s
July 29, 2010
Business
Aldi, a German discount grocer, opened its first eight stores in Southern California this week.
March 25, 2016
Archives
Karl Lagerfeld, who continues to churn out provocative political cartoons for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, relies on his Faber-Castell pencil crayons.
Sept. 1, 2016
The meltdown of global financial markets slashed the ranks of the world’s billionaires by 30% in 2008, Forbes magazine reports in its annual tally of the planet’s richest people.
March 12, 2009
Sports
The Indiana Pacers promoted assistant Nate McMillan to head coach, ending the search for Frank Vogel’s replacement after less than two weeks.
May 16, 2016
Movies
With the shimmering, elegiac “Faraway, So Close!”
Dec. 21, 1993
With the shimmering, elegiac “Faraway, So Close” (selected theaters), Wim Wenders continues the magnificent spiritual odyssey he commenced six years ago with “Wings of Desire.”
Money & Company
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March 11, 2009