!!!Wlaschek, Karl

b. Vienna, Aug. 4, 1917, entrepreneur. After World War I, earned 
his living as a pianist and band leader (pseudonym: Charly Walker); 
started his career as an entrepreneur with a cosmetics discount store 
in 1953; founded a chain of supermarkets in 1960, which he developed 
into one of Austria's largest trade groups,  Billa-Konzern. From 1991 
set up the "Eurobilla" branch shops of abroad (in Italy, Poland, the 
Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). Integrated this group into the 
K.-W. Private Foundation in 1994. It was sold to the German Rewe group 
in 1996, with the exception of the Libro chain ( Libro AG), which was 
sold in 1997. Since then Karl Wlaschek has concentrated his activities 
on the real estate sector.


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