After high school he studied international business administration in Stuttgart and Copenhagen. He was a member of a student consultancy and went through a trainee program at Daimler AG. After graduating in business studies, he went 2007 on trading companies Aldi Süd. He first worked as a trainee, a short time later Director. In 2011 he left the group. His experience summed up in the book Aldi. Simple cheap. together, which appeared in 2012 in the Rowohlt publishing house, in which he paints a dark picture of the methods of the company to employees control [1]. It reached the bestseller list of Spiegel Online. The foreword is by Günter Wallraff. Straub founded the fashion label Grey Solid, which he headed as Managing Director [2]. Andreas Straub is a freelance author.