About Metro
The METRO Cash & Carry success story began in 1964 with the opening of the first wholesale outlet in Germany. Today the company is represented in 30 countries with METRO and MAKRO Cash & Carry stores at more than 600 locations – and offers its commercial customers up to 50,000 different products from a single source.
METRO Cash & Carry is a sales division of the METRO Group, the world’s third-largest retail company. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, the METRO Group is one of the largest stock market listed companies in Germany. The group, which generated a turnover of 67.3 billion euros in 2010 employs more than 290,000 people in 33 countries.
The corporate group is composed of high-performance, operationally independent companies and businesses.
- Metro/Makro - Under the brands of Metro and Makro, Metro Cash & Carry is the world's market leader in cash & carry
- Real Hypermarkets - Real is the market leader in the hypermarket sector in Germany and Poland and operates stores in Romania, Russia and Turkey
- Media Markt and Saturn - The sales brands of Media Markt and Saturn are Europe's No 1 in consumer electronics centres.
- Galeria Kaufhof - Galeria Kaufhof is the concept and system leader in Germany's department store segment and the market leader in Belgium.
Just as the group profits from the strengths of the individual companies, each sales division receives support and reinforcement from the entire corporation’s business potential. Furthermore, all members of the METRO Group profit from the important synergy effects that only a nationally and internationally successful major corporation can offer.
METRO Group today, is the third largest trading and retailing group in the world. The company employs over 290,000 staff in 33 countries. In the year 2010 METRO Group had generated sales of over €67.3 billion.
