REWE Group

REWE Group
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Type	Cooperative
Industry	Retailing
Founded	1927 (current form 1972)
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Key people	Alain Caparros, CEO; Heinz-Bert Zander, Chairman
Products	Discount Stores, Grocery Stores, Convenience stores, Cash&Carry, Hypermarkets, Home improvement, Optical, Pharmacy, Clothing, Cosmetics and more
Revenue	€50.6 billion (2013)
Number of employees	329,418 + Severin (2013)
Slogan	"Thinking in New Ways”
Website	www.rewe-group.com

The REWE Group is a German diversified retail and tourism co-operative group based in Cologne, Germany. The name REWE comes from Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften", meaning "Western Buying Co-operatives Auditing Association". The most important companies under the umbrella of the REWE Group, come under the REWE-Central AG and REWE-Zentralfinanz eG names. The basis of the co-operative trade group consists of a network of independent retailers. In the 2014 Financial Year, the REWE Group had a total external sales of €51.1 billion. The REWE Group is the second largest supermarket chain in Germany behind EDEKA.

Divisions

Trading

REWE - A supermarket chain in Germany with 3,300 stores.
BILLA - A supermarket chain with more than 1,000 stores in Austria (is the market leader in the Austrian foodstuffs trade) and 400 stores in 8 other European countries.
Penny - A discount supermarket chain with 3,000 stores in Germany, Austria, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
XXL Mega Discount - A discount hypermarket chain in Romania.
nahkauf - A convenience store operator in Germany.
toom BauMarkt - A DIY/home improvement chain with 250 stores located in Germany.
MERKUR - A supermarket chain with 100 stores in Austria.
Standa - A supermarket chain with 158 stores in Italy (sold to Carrefour).
BIPA - A health and beauty retail chain with 560 stores in Austria and 58 stores in Croatia.
Kaufpark - A supermarket chain with 120 stores in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Furr's Grocery Stores - A supermarket chain in Texas and New Mexico, U.S., owned by REWE from 1979 to 1990.

Tourism

DER Touristik is the tourism division of Rewe Group:

Tour operator brands: ITS, Jahn Reisen, Tjaereborg, Dertour, Meier’s Weltreisen and ADAC Reisen ^[1] and clevertours.com
Hotel brands: lti Hotels, Club Calimera and PrimaSol Hotels

In June 2015, it signed an agreement with Kuoni Travel that will pass on control over their European tour operations over to DER. The deal is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2015. ^[2]

Country ranking in 2006

Country	No. of Stores	Sales (million euros)
Germany	8,939	M€31,220
Austria	1,901	M€4,618
Italy	337	M€1,736
France*	-	M€1,140
Romania	65	M€1,050
Switzerland*	22	M€904
Czech Republic	245	M€844
Poland	33	M€679
Hungary	200 (2015)	M€667 (2015)
Slovakia	117	M€274
Croatia	50	M€215
Bulgaria	22	M€138
Russia	69	M€
Ukraine	21	M€68