MORE Podcast - METRO Wholesale to the Max

Smaller retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to survive against the large hypermarket companies. Many of the family businesses are struggling for bare survival. But METRO's franchise concept offers them the perfect opportunity to transform their business into modern convenience stores and thus make them fit for a secure future. In this episode of MORE Podcast, I talk to METRO's franchis...

Rising costs, lack of staff, inaccurate calculation - the challenges for restaurateurs are numerous. The solution to these and many other problems lies in the digitalisation of processes in hospitality businesses. Making these more efficient and economical and thus making everyday life easier for restaurateurs is the mission of Hospitality Digital. About the ambitious goals of the METRO subsidiary...

METRO's sCore strategy is putting our company back on its feet. Introduced for the first time in January 2022, it's now an essential part of the daily work of each and every one of us at METRO. sCore brings us new growth and new values, initiated by our CEO of METRO, Steffen Greubel. When he first realised METRO's great potential and how he sees METRO's path to achieving its goals in 2030, he tell...

High dynamics and enormous growth potential - this is what METRO Markets, METRO's e-commerce platform, stands for. For the sCore strategy and the underlying multichannel business model, the digital sales channel is the turbo boost for METRO's growth engine. In this episode of MORE Podcast - Wholesale to the max, we discuss with Philipp Blome, CEO of METRO Markets, how METRO Markets is picking up s...

"Supplying your wholesale customers is not an art. The real art is to make money with it." This difficult task is the profession and also the passion of Alessandro Urbani, Senior Vice President Food Service Distribution at METRO AG. By 2030, METRO wants to significantly increase sales and profits with its sCore strategy and a new multichannel business model. A large part of the targeted growth is...

With great passion, the teams of the METRO countries are currently working on the implementation of their respective local sCore strategies. Now that the goals have been set, the task is to adapt the specifications developed together with corporate headquarters to the conditions in their own markets. Sabrina Ley, Senior Vice President Investor Relations & Strategy at METRO AG, impressively tells u...

MORE Podcast is back! From now on, you can find out everything you need to know about our growth strategy sCore - Wholesale to the max - directly and first-hand from the colleagues who bring sCore to life at METRO. In this first episode, Matthias Dutschmann, Senior Vice President Business Transformation at METRO AG, first gives us an overview of the many activities and initiatives with which the n...

This season of MORE Podcast is about sCore, METRO's growth strategy. Under the motto "Wholesale to the max", METRO wants to get the best, the maximum for itself and for its customers. We meet METRO colleagues who tell us their personal sCore stories. We talk to them about the most important topics of the new strategy - not only from their professional but also from their personal perspective.

Permanent stress at work, the family demands time and you take care of yourself the least of all – that's how it is: The normal madness of everyday life. Not only since Corona many of us feel overwhelmed by all the demands that life places on us. Physical and mental sufferings such as back pain, obesity or depression are often the consequences of the constant pressure. But in order to stay product...

On top of the San Donato wholesale store in Milan, METRO Italy built a unique place for its employees: the METRO Village. With plenty of space for interaction and creativity, it offers our colleagues optimal conditions for their "New Way of Working". Moreover, it strengthens the collaboration and the team spirit between those who work in the store and those who support them in the headquarters. On...

Whether it's the new or conventional way of working: Meetings are often the cause of little efficiency and a lot of bad moods. Too much, too long, no preparation and even less discipline - the list of reasons for an insufficient meeting culture can be continued endlessly. Nowadays, especially hybrid meetings challenge us to bring together participants equally from the office and from the home offi...

How do we create the optimal office environment for our "New Ways of Working"? Even though the concepts for this have been available for some time, we still rely too much on improvisation than on real innovation. METRO PROPERTIES is now taking the step from pure theory to lived practice. With its new office concept, our real estate company offers its employees a modern working environment that mee...

Our new working world has taught us: we won't get ahead with our traditional working methods. And when everything around you is changing, it’s helpful to be agile and ready to adapt. This is exactly where Agile Working comes in, a way of working that allows us to react flexibly and proactively to change. It’s all about networks, team-based processes, employee ownership and knowledge sharing. How A...

Since the move to our home offices, many of us can hardly be found at our "old" workplace. There are colleagues at METRO who have been in the office maybe just three times since March 2020. Of course, this also poses new challenges for our managers. Until now, almost all means of leading employees and teams have been based on direct human contact. But since interactions have become almost exclusiv...

How has Corona changed our work and collaboration? And how can our METRO community grow even closer together? These are the questions we want to address in this episode and get answers from Elisabeth Hesse, responsible for Internal Communications at METRO. I talk to her about our Social Intranet United - so to speak our campfire around which we gather at METRO and which provides us with warmth and...

One year of Corona and, like the virus, we too have mutated in this time: from office workers to home workers. Our workplace is digital and our collaboration virtual. Work and private life are merging more and more. In our first episode, we talk about this with Christian Rippl, Global Director of the House of Learning at METRO AG and co-initiator of the "New Ways of Working" project. Together with...