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METRO GROUP : ANNUAL REPORT 2011 : BUSINESS
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5. Employees
MeTRo GRoUp aims to secure its long-term positive earnings
development. To this end, we need employees and managers
who and bring our strategy to life on the job each day.
They must be people who are literally “Made to Trade.”, that
is, they must think like entrepreneurs and take responsibility
into their own hands. Because our need for motivated and
qualified employees will continue to grow as we carry out
our growth strategy and expand internationally, we implement
far-sighted human resources policies: we systemat-
ically invest in individual initial and ongoing training programmes,
our working conditions and management culture
in order to attract the very best employees and managers to
our Company, to support them in accordance with their drive
and abilities and to strengthen their long-term bond with
our Company. By taking this approach, we are determined to
become the employer of choice.
Development of employee numbers
In the financial year 2011, MeTRo GRoUp employed an
average number of 249,953 full-time equivalents, 0.9 percent
less than in the previous year. our personnel expenses
fell by 1.1 percent to €7.3 billion (previous year: €7.4 billion).
of this total, €6.0 billion was attributable to wages
and salaries, including wage taxes and employees’ contribution
to social insurance programmes. The rest was
attributable to social welfare contributions, pension
expenses and employee benefits.
Further information about personnel expenses is included in
no. 15 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements
“personnel expenses”.
The largest number of MeTRo GRoUp’s employees work outside
our domestic market of Germany. our workforce in
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Western europe (excluding Germany), eastern europe and
asia/africa rose slightly by 0.4 percent to 158,764 full-time
equivalents in 2011. a major reason for this increase was our
accelerating international expansion. on average, we employ
50 to 250 employees at each new location – depending on the
sales format. In Germany, by contrast, the number of fulltime
equivalents fell by 3.2 percent to 91,189.
Development of employee numbers of METRO gROUP
annual average
workforce by headcount
2010
2011
Germany International
Total
workforce by full-time equivalents
2010
2011
112,464 170,816
109,099 171,757
Germany International
Total
94,169 158,089
91,189 158,764
252,258
283,280
280,856 (–0.9%)
249,953 (–0.9%)
In 2011, our sales division Metro Cash & Carry employed an
annual average of 112,588 full-time equivalents, 2.6 percent
more than in the previous year. The number of full-time
equivalents at Real dropped by 6.0 percent to 52,431. The
sales division Media-saturn had an annual average of 57,585
full-time equivalents in 2011 – that is, 2.2 percent less than in
the previous year. The main reason for this decline was the
sale of 35 saturn stores in France to the HTM Group in the
second quarter of 2011. at Galeria Kaufhof, the number of
full-time equivalents dropped by 3.2 percent to 18,522. In the
real estate business area, we employed 1,213 full-time equiva -
lents, 8.2 percent less than in the previous year. The number
of full-time equivalents in the “others” segment rose slightly
by 2.9 percent to 7,614.