Metro is the most famous name globally that engages in wholesale retail and wholesale hypermarket chains. It is also one of the retail brands whose name is associated with global success and trust. It basically caters to high-quantity consumers like retail stores or restaurants and such like.
Metro Cash & Carry or Metro as it is better known is a Brand name in wholesale market chains. Started off in the country of Germany in the year 1964, Metro opened as a local wholesale store. The store was set up by Professor Dr Otto Beisheim of Germany.
Since then, Metro's network has widened and it currently hosts shop in 30 countries. As a result the number of employees it records is phenomenal too with the track record being 264,000 or more.
In all the countries that it hosts shop in, Metro functions as either Metro Cash & Carry or as Makro Cash & Carry. Also, Metro is spread across some 584 cities and regions in the world.
Metro also houses some 50,000 brands or more right under the single roof. The Metro Group has its headquarters in German city of Düsseldorf. The company also ranks as one of the top stock market listed companies in Germany. In the year 2006, it was known to have a turnover of € 60 billion.
To shop at any of the Metro or Makro Cash & Carry stores in the world, customers should have a card entitling them to purchase in wholesale.
