• Metro Cash & Carry, the world’s market leader in cash & carry
• Real hypermarkets and Extra supermarkets
• Media Markt and Saturn, Europe’s leader in consumer electronic retailing
• Galeria Kaufhof, the system leader in the department store business

Just as the group profits from the strengths of the individual companies, each sales division receives support and reinforcement from the entire corporation’s business potential. Furthermore, all members of the METRO Group profit from the important synergy effects that only a nationally and internationally successful major corporation can offer.

This year the METRO Group celebrates its tenth birthday. In 1996, a number of major German trade and retail companies joined forces to form a powerful corporate group. Today, the METRO Group is one of the most successful companies in the world of international retail. Over the past ten years, the group reached a number of important milestones in its successful history. The basis for this has been a company strategy geared towards profitable growth.