METRO AG - METRO Group

(35) Third-party shares in net income
The third-party shares in profit and loss amount
to DM 142.488 million and DM 35.677 million,
respectively.
(36) Additional data
Average number of employees 1996
White-collar 135,722
Blue-collar 33,075
Apprentices/trainees 7,721
The figures include 75,364 part-timers per
capita.
86
176,518
(37) Supervisory and Executive Boards
For their activities on behalf of METRO AG,
Supervisory Board members received DM
0.775 million. Up to the date of registration of
the merger, former Asko Deutsche Kaufhaus
AG, Deutsche SB-Kauf AG and Kaufhof Holding
AG paid total emoluments of DM 2.151 million
to their Supervisory Board members, whose
total remuneration thus came to DM 2.926
million.
The emoluments paid to the Executive Board
members for their services on behalf of METRO
AG from January 1 through December 31,
1996, totaled DM 15.611 million. For the period
from January 1, 1996, up to July 19, 1996, the
date of merger registration, the remuneration
paid to the other Executive Board members
of Asko Deutsche Kaufhaus AG, Deutsche
SB-Kauf AG and Kaufhof Holding AG totaled
DM 6.717 million.
Former Executive Board members of the
companies absorbed by METRO AG and their
surviving dependants received DM 6.458 million;
METRO AG provided a total DM 75.569
million for their accrued pensions.