Kaufland opens 2025 new branches: where you can shop now!

Kaufland opens 2025 new branches: where you can shop now!

Heidenau, Deutschland - The Kaufland group is on an expansion tour in Germany and is planning to open numerous new branches in various federal states for 2025. The company opened around 300 new locations worldwide in the 2024/25 financial year alone. In Germany, the black group invested a whopping 3.3 billion euros in warehouse, data centers and branches. The construction of other markets will be completed by the end of March 2026 and includes locations such as Göttingen-Wende, Haßloch and Mülheim-Kärlich. A total of around 0.4 billion euros are planned for new branches in the current financial year, such as echo24 reported.

Where opens Kaufland 2025? Bedburg, Ingelheim am Rhein, Jettingen, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen, Henstedt-Ulzburg, Heidenau, Landsberg-Peißen, and Wesel are one of the planned new openings. It starts with the opening in June 2025 in Brandenburg an der Havel and Heiligenhaus, where the former real market is revived. Kaufland also plans to open new branches in Chemnitz and Essen, where it is former globe markets. Another ten new openings are in the pipeline by the end of February 2026. This strategy is designed to gain a foothold in regions where there has been no merchants so far, what Merkur as well as Ruhr24 Confirm

new openings and criteria for the choice of location

Kaufland plans to open up to 20 new branches in Germany over the next twelve months. The aim is in particular that the strolling centers with good transport links and a high catchment area potential are sought. The targeted minimum requirements include cities with at least 10,000 inhabitants, a catchment area with 25,000 inhabitants, as well as property areas of at least 6,000 square meters and sales areas from 2,500 square meters. This planning security ensures that the new markets meet the expectations of customers and are easily accessible.

while Kaufland is expanding, we also have to report on some closings. In 2025, the branches in Dortmund-Mengede, Recklinghausen and Aalen will be closed. These closures are part of a large -scale strategy for optimizing the branch network that declares Kaufland as individual cases. If possible, the employees of the closing branches could find a job in new markets.

Overall, Kaufland is very popular and is actively looking for attractive locations. We look forward to the upcoming new openings and how the branch network will develop next year.