OBI (store)

OBI Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte GmbH & Co. Franchise Center KG

Trading name	OBI Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte
Romanized name	OBI DIY Stores
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Home improvement DIY store
Founded	1970 (1970) in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel, Germany
Founders	Dr. Emil Lux Manfred Maus
Headquarters	Wermelskirchen, Germany
Number of locations	580 (2015)
Areas served	Germany Italy Austria Hungary Czech Republic Poland Slovenia Switzerland Bosnia Herzegovina Russia
Key people	Sergio Giroldi, CEO
Revenue	€6.7 billion euros (2014)
Number of employees	42,000 (2015)
Parent	Tengelmann Group
Website	www.obi.de

Founded in 1970, OBI GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG is the largest DIY retailer in Europe, and the third largest in the world, behind The Home Depot and Lowe's. It is headquartered in Wermelskirchen, Germany, and belongs to the Tengelmann Group.

Obi has been present in Switzerland since 1999, in partnership with the Migros cooperative.

It formerly had operations in mainland China but these were sold to B&Q in 2007.