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REWE central the AG is a German commercial company with the emphasis food trades and tourism. It has its seat in Cologne. The name REWE is an acronym and stands for ''' RH ''' vision-connected the west purchase cooperatives.
The REWE was created on 1 January 1927 as cooperative in Cologne.
1935 came it to a first Umfirmierung under Rewe center of German food wholesale cooperatives eGmbH. During the Second World War it came for short time to the incapacity to act of the group, since important parts of the administration were ausgebombt.
1972 are reformed the company structure: the Rewe Zentralfinanz eGmbH and the Rewe central corporation Cologne is created. 1979 firstrode the Rewe before the European Court of Justice an important judgement to the negotiableness of goods in the European Union (Cassis de Dijon decision).
The supervisory board discharges on 17 February 2004 Hans Reischl to the year end 2004 into the retirement. As a successor the Dr. Ernst Dieter Berninghaus is nominated. Reichl had accepted a supervisory board mandate before with the competitor KarstadtQuelle. Berninghaus displaced Reischl with the assistance of the supervisory board chairman Klaus castle hard still before the agreed upon date from the office and became starting from 1. May of 2004 executive committee speakers.
Already on 15 October 2004 Berninghaus withdrew from the office of the executive committee speaker of the REWE - outward for health reasons. After its resignation reproaches emerged against it, among other things it was to have locked business without agreement of the remainder executive committee. In August 2005 the REWE and its former executive committee speaker compared themselves on the payment of 11 million euro, after the REWE Berninghaus had sued before for the payment of a payment of damages at a value of approx. 27 millions euro. Berninghaus was condemned in a further procedure to a probation sentence. Cologne regional courts expressly heavy management errors of Hans Reischl determined: Berninghaus put all documents openly on the table, took place at that time it however no tidy examination ("Due Diligence"). Regardless of its Berninghaus was condemned in March 2006 to two years on probation.
After the outlet of Berninghaus the REWE for a transition period was led by a Vorstandstrio: Hans Schmitz, Josef Sanktjohanser and Gerd Bruse.
On 4 January 2005 the REWE group transferred and thus the remaining 25% of the commercial company emperor + cellar man OHG 38 globe supermarkets to North-Rhine/Westphalia.
In April 2005 also Hans Schmitz from the REWE executive committee separated. However two new members were added, so that the new executive committee of the REWE consists of the following persons: Dr. Achim Egner (executive committee speaker, responsibly for marketing, products and selling), Alain Caparros (foreign business, Discount, big consumer business, cash & Carry), Gerd Bruse and Josef Sanktjohanser.
On 28 April 2005 the REWE group opens the first own bio supermarket. The bio supermarket "four-lime trees" open in Duesseldorf, further bio supermarkets in North-Rhine/Westphalia are to follow. In September 2005 second four-lime trees a bio supermarket followed in Cologne brown field. Already in the 90's there was in Bochum Kaltehardt a REWE supermarket with a shelf only with bio products, as it also in the bio shop to find was.
On 26 August 2005 Gerd Bruse leaves the enterprise, on 27 September 2005 becomes Norbert Fiebig new financial and tourism executive committee of the REWE.
On 23 January 2006 the "REWE group" designates itself over. The new name "REWE GROUP" is introduced. The new roof mark of the company is to combine tradition with future. The new Logo symbolizes the core business of the REWE, whereby red stands for yellow for the tourism for the food trade and.
At the 1. March 2006 admits, to the maindamaged of the Heros failure heard the "REWE GROUP". Probably a damage of 161 million euro developed.
Today the Rewe consists of a multiplicity of selling lines, which cover the different business fields of the company. The marks of the Rewe most well-known in Germany are:
The markets led under the name REWE are led by independent buyers. With the selling line REWE - close purchase acts it around business with smaller sales area, while the name REWE - which is reserved supermarket larger markets starting from 500 m sales area. With the branch supermarkets of the Rewe the selling line stood minimum so far for larger consumer markets, while the smaller supermarkets (to 800 m sales area) were led under the names HL-market, (regional in Cologne) and Otto measuring (regional in Duesseldorf). To at the end of of 2005 a change of the selling structures is to be final, after all branch supermarkets, independently of the size, only more under the mark minimum lead.
In former times the drugstore market chain belonged idea to Rewe . It was sold 2005 at Schlecker, which took over and umfirmierte the branches. In the same year the Rewe transferred 119 extra markets of the Metro AG, which are converted now gradually into REWE and/or minimum branches.
Further REWE offers services within different range (e.g. purchase, completion of the payments at suppliers) to larger trading ventures. Well-known customers are here DM drugstore market and the Dohle group.
After newest plans all grocer's shops will receive beginning in the late summer 2006 to the names Rewe. The names minimum and Toom are not to go no more into action.
To the Rewe Austria belong:
Rewe swallowed also the majority (162) of the Julius Meinl branches and IDEA.
Rewe transferred in the year 2003 Swiss Bon appetite group. The enterprise separates from the business with the supply from village shops and concentrates on the Discounter Pick Pay as well as - together with Coop - on the Gastro wholesale. Thus the Rewe is indirectly guilty at "the loading cunning inheriting so mentioned "in Switzerland. Hundreds small Primo and Vis Vis shops had to close and/or must, since their main supplier, which Usego AG was bought, by Rewe and since that time these small shops any longer not supplied. The consequences are innumerable villages/accomodation without ", which above all older fellow men miss heavily, there them in the large, impersonal branches of Coop and Migros only with difficulty by right are. In addition many unemployed persons shop assistants and salesmen of the former shops come. 2005 was sold all 146 Pick Pay branches and the logistics center at Denner.
Since 2001 the REWE 40% of the portions of the holidays flier LTU holds. In the range of the organizers the marks General German Automobile Association journeys, THE ROUTE, ITS, Jahn journeys, Tjaereborg and Meier's voyages round the world belong to the REWE company. The selling is completed thereby to large parts over the own lines. The most important selling lines are: ATLAS JOURNEYS, THAT travel agency, the Businesses Travel and THE PART.
In the range of the tourism are the most well-known marks of the Rewe:
Under the roof also different production enterprises, which produce for the REWE goods, exist to the REWE group.
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