!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Wlaschek,_Karl|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]