Board of Directors

Hannes Floto, Managing Director

Hannes Floto joined Metro cash and carry in 2002 as Food Buying Director in Makro Greece, where amongst other responsibilities he led the Greek Division of company to grow its business with caterers to double digits every year.

Hannes has brought his experience to the UK Team, joining Makro UK in Jan 2007 appointed as UK Managing Director. Hannes is responsible for making further improvements to the Makro range and developing an offering that satisfies Makro customer’s business needs allowing them to compete successfully in today’s tough environment. 

Hannes is placing high emphasis on ensuring Makro’s availability, quality, service and competitiveness meet world class standards in order to be a business partner every day for all our customers!

Prior to joining Metro, Hannes started his professional career as a steel trader in Hamburg. He joined Lidl in 1990 and as a Trainee began by learning the trade from the bottom up; cleaning and filling shelves, working as a cashier, before being appointed Store Manager. One year later he joined the central buying department in Neckarsulm, Germany and in 1993 was promoted to Purchasing Director for the start up of Lidl UK. Here he opened the first 10 stores in October of the same year.

Allard Sjollema, Procurement and Merchandising Director Food

In his capacity as the Director of Food Buying and Merchandising of Makro Cash and Carry UK, Allard Sjollema oversees all purchasing activities in the food division. 

Allard has worked with the Metro for 14 years, joining the company’s Spain division in 1992.  He has gone on to work in Czech Republic as their Director of Food Buying and Merchandising. His work in food buying has taken him to other Metro countries including; Columbia, Argentina, Slovakia and France.

Allard has brought with him to the UK Team extensive work experience within the cash and carry business.  Following on from the remodelling at Charlton and Rayleigh store, where fresh produce ranges have been dramatically increased, Allard is key responsibility is for developing its business with catering customers and implementing a best in class fresh food offer.

Christoph Wackerbauer, Procurement and Merchandising Director Non Food

In his capacity as the Director of Non Food Buying and Merchandising of Makro Cash and Carry UK, Christoph Wackerbauer oversees all purchasing activities in the non food division. 

After graduation at University Christoph started his professional career with Metro C&C Germany as a trainee in 1992. During this time he worked in several German stores and learned the C&C System from top to bottom.

In 1993 he moved to the newly founded strategic buying department. At the start he was responsible for several organisational projects. Later on being charged as the buyer for Toys. In 1997 he was appointed at Metro C&C Germany as a Category Manager for Seasonal at Metro C&C Germany.

Since this time Christoph was the Non Food Buying Director in Metro Austria for 6 years prior to moving to his current position here in the UK.

Stefan Hesse, Finance and Administration Director

In his position as Finance and Administration Director, Stefan Hesse brings with him over 10 years experience within the Metro Group, in areas of Finance and Controlling.

Stefan joined Metro’s Controlling Department in 1996 whereby after 2 years he became Head of Controlling at Metro Bulgaria. In this role Stefan played key role in a pioneering team to set up a completely new organisation in a green field investment.  Moving to Metro Romania in 2000 as a Finance and Administration Director, Stefan joined the Board of Directors and played a pivotal role in phased turn around and high speed expansion of Metro Stores in the Romanian market.

In 2005 Stefan was responsible for financial control of the whole Metro group, as Head of Corporate Controlling in Metro’s corporate Head Office in Düsseldorf.

He joined the UK Team at Makro in 2005 as the Finance and Administration Director, going “back to the roots” of the cash and carry division and taking on a more operational role, specifically  through his responsibilities for overall supply chain and logistics management. In this role Stefan is also responsible for finance and accounting, Information Management and Controlling at Makro UK.

 Caroline Hutchins, Human Resources Director