Metro Cash and Carry
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| Private | |
| Industry | Wholesale |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Key people
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Olaf Koch, CEO |
| Products | Fast-moving consumer goods |
| Revenue | €31.6 billion (2012) |
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Number of employees
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~ 100,000 (2012) |
| Website | www.metro-cc.com |
METRO Cash & Carry is an international self-service wholesaler. It operates across Europe and in some countries of Asia and Northern Africa. It is the largest sales division of the German trade and retail giant Metro AG.
METRO Cash & Carry is different from B2C retail chains (such as Walmart, Carrefour or Tesco) in that its business concept is targeted towards professional customers rather than end consumers. The cash-and-carry concept is based around self-service and bulk buying. METRO Cash & Carry serves to registered customers only. Core customer groups are hotels, restaurants, caterers, traders and other business professionals.
As of February 2015[update], METRO Cash & Carry is operating over 750 stores in 27 countries:
The first two METRO Cash and Carry stores in Bulgaria opened in Sofia and Plovdiv on 18 March 1999. As of 2013[update] the company operates 14 stores in 12 cities (including 3 Metro KOMPAKT stores):
Metro KOMPAKT stores in Bulgaria:
On 30 January 2015, the Greek part of the chain was bought by Sklavenitis.
The first METRO Cash & Carry wholesale center in India opened in Bangalore in 2003. Currently there are 16 wholesale centers in operation, including three in Bangalore. and two in Hyderabad, of which one was opened on 30 November 2006. The first Mumbai store was opened in 2008 at Bhandup. The Kolkata store located at Kalikapur, EM Bypass was opened in 2008. A Metro Cash & Carry store was opened at Ludhiana city in Punjab in the first week of September 2011, located on the Jallandhar Bypass road. The second store in Mumbai was opened on 17 November 2011, near Western Express Highway, Borivli (E). In the beginning of 2012 Metro opened 2 more stores in northern India including one in New Delhi and one in Jaipur, with plans to open more.
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