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The METRO AG is one in Duesseldorf resident holding company, which administers different large and retail businesses under the roof of the METRO Group. The METRO Group has today world-wide about 270,000 coworkers, of it about 142,000 in Germany. With its different selling lines it is so far in 31 countries active.
The METRO AG began 1964 with the establishment of the first Metro cash & Carry market. 1967 went the company Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH a partnership with Metro. In the same year the family Schmidt Ruthenbeck followed into the partnership. Among the point managers of the Metro Erwin Conradi ranked.
To 14. March 1996 was communicated the education of the METRO Group as fusion of the Metro cash & Carry with the purchase yard getting thing AG, the German self-service purchase AG and the Asko German department store AG (at those a Metro holding company portions had held in each case before). To the company also the Huma shopping centres, the sport specialized markets Primus sport world, the MHB trade AG and the office product and stationery manufacturer pelican AG belonged. The share of the retroactively to 1 January created Metro AG noted for the first time on 25 July 1996 in the DAX.
1998 besides 94 all purchase self-service department stores were taken over, in addition the all purchase tourism of selling GmbH with 160 travel agencies, which were again sold by the Metro. The all purchase Franchise GmbH, to which approx. 90 photo specialist shops belonged, was sold in November 1998 at Nina's picture market summer GmbH.
At the METRO Group hold Otto Beisheim, the family Haniel and the family Schmidt Ruthenbeck together for presently 55.7 %. Thus the portion of the individual principal shareholders amounts to 18,56 %.
To the selling lines belong to the METRO Group:
METRO cash and Carry Austria was created 1971 and was the first location abroad by Metro C&C. The 1971 wholesale market opened vienna was not only the first METRO market of Austria, but also first outside of Germany.
The METRO cash & Carry Austria gains an annual turnover of net 749.0 millions euro. The METRO cash & Carry Austria has 12 supermarkets with a sales area of 136.800 m in Austria, In each supermarket a Warensortiment of 48.000 articles is present. Approximately 2,300 coworkers serve annually 524,000 METRO customers.
To Metro cash & Carry Austria belong still additionally to eagle, extra etc.
Their history decreases/goes back until 1879, as Leonhard Tietz in Stralsund a small business for yarns and buttons, material and Wollwaren opened. it opened a small department store to 1891 in Cologne on the high road as branch to its Stralsunder principal firm. 1905 were created the Leonhard Tietz AG. This AG existed until 1933. In order to prevent the dissolution of the enterprise aimed at by the NSDAP, renaming took place into West German purchase yard AG and changes in the governing bodies. The Jewish family Tietz emigrierte meanwhile abroad took over Metro cash & Carry with the purchase yard getting thing AG the majority. To the group of purchase yards belonged also the tourism range ITS, which was sold later at REWE.
To purchase yard getting thing cash & Carry the marks belonged up to the fusion 1996 with the Metro:
Today the following marks belong to department store AG to to purchase yard in Germany:
On the Belgian market the purchase yard department store AG 100% the Inno S.a.r.l possesses., those with 15 department stores of the mark
is represented.
It was created 1972 as Asko food branch and department store AG from the transformation of the Asko Saarpfalz, cooperative of the consumers eGmbH. 1977 received the society to its later names. 1979 created the Asko the practical men of building and do-it-yourself enthusiast markets AG.
Shareholders of the Asko were 1989 among other things:
1990 entered Metro cash & Carry with Asko as majority shareholder with 50%. 1992 had completely taken over Metro the Asko. The market and section clearing began at the latest now.
To the Asko the following participation belonged:
Since 2003 the Metro AG tries to erklagen itself the exclusive rights to use for the term "Metro ". The railway company of Lower Saxony MetroRail had in metronom railway company ltd. to rename itself, may their courses however further metronom to call. Also the Metrorapid successor MetroExpress was renamed after complaint menace. In Nabburg (Upper Palatinate) the discotheque Metro was sued and had to rename itself. Complaints against the citizens of Berlin of transporting enterprises (Federal Constitutional Court), those Hamburg overhead railway (HHA), that Hamburg traffic group (HVV) and the residents of Munich public transport company (MVG) were meanwhile rejected. The Metro AG announced to want to insert against these decisions redresses after in the apron already the offer of the federation of German transport enterprises (VDV) had been rejected, to cause for all transport enterprises an agreement out of court by the Metro AG. Likewise private people were warned, as for example a underground fan, that possessed the Domain nuernberg metro.de.
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