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Research and Markets: This Report Provides in-Depth Company Profiles for German Companies Ranked in the 2009 Fortune Global 500 List [Press Release]
Business Wire | 15 days 19 hours 53 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e15637/germany_2009_fortu) has announced the addition of the "Germany 2009 Fortune Global 500 Databank - Company Profiles" company profile to their offering.


Checkpoint Systems Announces First Customer Trial of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Built on RFID [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 19 hours 34 minutes ago
Checkpoint Systems, a global leader in shrink management, merchandise visibility and apparel labeling solutions, today announced that it is partnering with METRO Group, one of the largest and most important international retailing companies, to deliver an RFID-based EAS solution.


Reportlinker Adds Menswear - Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guide Report [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 22 hours 51 minutes ago
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.


Euro-zone Sep. annual inflation falls 0.3% - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 23 hours 18 minutes ago
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Consumer prices in the 16-nation euro zone fell 0.3% in September compared to the same month last year, the statistics agency Eurostat reported Thursday. The data marked the fourth consecutive month that prices dropped on a year-on-year basis. The figure matched the agency's preliminary estimate. Eurostat said prices were flat compared to August.


Reportlinker Adds Womenswear - Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guide Report [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 21 hours 29 minutes ago
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.Womenswear - Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guidehttp://www.reportlinker.com/p0101604/Womenswear---Global-Group-of-Eight-(G8)-Industry-Guide.htmlDatamonitor's Womenswear: Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Womenswear industry in each of the G8 (United States, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia and Japan...


Reportlinker Adds Apparel Retail - Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guide Report [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 20 hours 47 minutes ago
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue.


U.S. asks more data from Baker Hughes, BJ Services - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 23 hours 18 minutes ago
U.S. asks more data from Baker Hughes, BJ Services


Metro: German Real Unit To Reach Goals 1 Yr Later Than Planned
Wall Street Journal, The | 19 hours 21 minutes ago
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--German retailer Metro AG (MEO.XE) said Tuesday that its German discount unit Real will reach its goals one year later than planned.


Research and Markets: Russian Retail Industry Forecast to 2013 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 12 hours 2 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2dbac9/russian_retail_ind) has announced the addition of the "Russian Retail Industry Forecast to 2013" report to their offering.


Research and Markets: The Top 10 Food Retailers Recorded Revenues of $1,057.1 Billion in 2008, an Increase Of 6.4% Over 2007 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 16 hours 17 minutes ago
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0b5ba7/global_top_10_food) has announced the addition of the "Global Top 10 Food Retailers — Industry, Financial and SWOT Analysis" report to their offering.


The W. P. Carey Group Completes Fourth Sale-Leaseback With German DIY Retailer, OBI [Press Release]
MarketWire | 40 days 14 hours 26 minutes ago
NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 10/15/09 -- Investment firm W. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC) today announced that its publicly-held, non-traded REIT affiliate, CPA®:17 - Global, has entered into a


Nokia reports loss on NSN write-down, sales fall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 22 hours 28 minutes ago
Nokia reports loss on NSN write-down, sales fall





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Company Overview


Company: METRO AG
Industry: Grocery Retail
Website: http://www.metro.de

A ride on this METRO could be a shopper's delight. The company, Germany's largest retailer, owns and operates some 2,200 wholesale stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets, department stores, and Media Markt and Saturn consumer electronics shops. More than half of its shops are in Germany, but METRO also has stores in 30 other countries, including China and Poland. Store banners include Metro and makro cash & carry wholesale outlets, Real hypermarkets, and Galeria Kaufhof department stores. METRO also runs restaurants in its department stores and offers advertising and insurance to its retail chains. German conglomerate Franz Haniel and the Schmidt-Ruthenbeck family control METRO.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 95,784 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 1.3 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 789.3 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income -35.0 (2008)
Number of Employees 290,940 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 3.4 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December