SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG

SPAR Austria is a 100 percent private Austrian family business. The majority of shares in SPAR Austria are still held by those families who contributed their businesses to the company when SPAR AG was founded. And members of these families still manage the company today: The descendants of the founding fathers and owner families now form the SPAR board of directors (photo from left: Rudolf Staudinger, Fritz Poppmeier, Dr. Gerhard Drexel and KR Hans K. Reisch)

Since its foundation, SPAR Austria has grown from year to year - even beyond its borders, SPAR has gained a very successful foothold in neighbouring countries.

With over 44,700 employees, SPAR is the largest private Austrian employer. The annual turnover of 6.88 billion euros in 2018 represents a growth of 4.0 percent compared to the previous year. This is the ninth year in a row that SPAR has achieved the highest growth among full-range retailers. Together with the neighbouring countries North-East Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia, the SPAR Austria Group now employs a total of around 82,700 people.

SPAR is also constantly setting new standards in many other areas - for example in shop architecture, product range design, logistics and marketing. In order to succeed in achieving the vision of transforming the Austrian retail company into a Central European retail group and to push the SPAR brand even further.