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METRO Group - the Driving Force in International Trade and Retail
An Overview of the Corporate Structure
Foundation of Corporate Culture
Employer of some 300,000 People Around the World
METRO Group is one of the most important international retailing companies: Some 300,000 employees from 150 nations are working at over 2,100 outlets in 33 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. The portfolio of our strong sales brands offers a wide range of services for private and commercial customers:
, the world’s market leader in cash & carry and Saturn, Europe’s leader in consumer electronic retailing, the system leader in the department store businessAll sales brands of the METRO Group take leading market positions in their respective segment and demonstrate their competence in trade and retail on a daily basis. Responsibility towards our customers, stockholders and the public characterizes our corporate thinking and action. Innovative strength is one of our key success factors. As a foresighted and high-performance group of companies, we also want to contribute to the further development and modernization of the retail sector – both, at the national and at the international level.
The group has a clear portfolio: METRO AG stands at the top as the strategic management holding company. The operative business is divided into the business segments of wholesale, food retail, non-food specialty stores and department stores. Of course, the sales brands of the METRO Group are represented in the market. Throughout the group, cross-divisional service companies perform an array of services in such areas as logistics, information technology and marketing for the sales brands.
Under the umbrella of the METRO Group, a shared corporate culture has emerged, creating an identity-providing code of values that extends across the business segments. The culture’s supporting pillars are:
that apply to all sales divisions as well as joint business goals and concepts for achieving goals and the pursuit of market leadership in each segment
Anybody who is striving to be successful in trade and retail needs highly qualified and committed employees. Whether it is employees at the register of a Real market, a university graduate in management or workers in the logistics center: The satisfaction of customers is largely in the hands of the METRO Group’s approximately 300,000 employees, nearly one-half of whom work outside Germany. The group places a major emphasis on training and professional development. The goal is to identify talented people, to promote them and to develop them. To achieve this goal, the company has created clearly structured and comprehensive programs for personnel promotion and development. more
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