METRO

As a leading international specialist in the wholesale and food retail trade, METRO sees itself as a partner committed to its customers’ success and satisfaction every day. To ensure that we remain relevant to our customers and successful in the long term, we have set ourselves the goal of taking the food retail and food service sector to a new level. We will take advantage of the unique opportunities arising from the digitisation of the entire industry sector.

METRO essentially consists of the METRO Wholesale and Real segments, which are responsible for our operations. The METRO Wholesale segment comprises the METRO/MAKRO Cash & Carry wholesale stores and the delivery business. It is primarily targeting business customers (B2B) and is characterised by trusting relationships with our approximately 21 million customers in 35 countries. The Real segment focuses on the retail industry in Germany and thus on end consumers (B2C). Real is one of the leading hypermarket companies in Germany. Additionally, the business unit HoReCa Digital, founded in 2015, consolidates the group’s digitisation initiatives, such as METRO Accelerator powered by Techstars. This initiative sponsors 2 programmes that last for 3 months and are aimed at supporting start-ups developing digitisation solutions in the hospitality and retail industry.

For us, sustainability does not stop at focusing on environmental and social issues. The notion of sustainability encompasses every single aspect of our actions and is a fixed item on the agenda of our corporate strategy.

Beyond that, more than 150,000 highly motivated employees worldwide also shape our company. They fill our open corporate culture with life and combine passion, a cooperative approach and outstanding performance in our core business. With courage for new ideas they challenge the status quo time and again and drive our business forward.