For us, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means ensuring the future success of our business in a socially responsible manner. To achieve this, we take social and environmental requirements into account at an early stage in our stores and operations as well as along the entire supply chain.
We can only generate lasting and profitable growth and successfully optimise METRO Group's investment-driven strategy if our core business is managed in a sustainable way.
As an international retailing company, we are part of the day-to-day lives of millions of people around the world. This direct contact to our employees, suppliers and customers means that we have a special corporate responsibility.
Our CSR activities are thus consistently geared to the needs and requirements of our key stakeholders.
CSR also strengthens our position as a leading international retailing company operating in an increasingly competitive global environment.
We also contribute to the sustainable development of society as a whole by embracing our social and ecological responsibility along the entire value chain.
This sustainability report contains statements about the future. These types of predictions are based on certain assumptions and expectations at the point in time that this report was published. They are therefore associated with risks and uncertainties and the actual results can vary significantly from the predictions described in this report. A large number of these risks and uncertainties is determined by factors that are not within METRO Group’s sphere of influence and can also not be reliably estimated today. These include future market conditions and economic developments, the behavior of other market participants and legal and political decisions. METRO Group also does not consider itself obligated to publish corrections to these predictions to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the publication date of these materials.