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METRO GROUP Helps Fire Victims in Russia
Every customer of REAL,- can make contribution to environment protection now
METRO Cash & Carry is recognized as the Best Employer of 2009/2010
METRO Cash & Carry and CFD Charity fund together give children a holiday
METRO GROUP Helps Fire Victims in Russia
Over 600 large-scale fires, extreme 40oC temperature and vicious smog built up to a real natural disaster for the a large part of Russia’s territory. METRO GROUP sent essential commodities for a total value of €50,000 to regions most affected by fires and smoke.
METRO GROUP's sales divisions: Metro Cash & Carry, Real,-, Media Markt and METRO AG provided relief for Shatura, Orekhovo, Yegorievsk, Lukhovitsy districts where the fire has been at its most violent, as well as for cities and towns that fell victim to malice of the blazes: Lipetsk, Togliatti, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, and Voronezh.
"METRO GROUP's shopping centers and Logistic Center escaped damage by fire. But we made no doubt that we must give aid in the hour of need. The company has 90 shopping centers in Russia, millions of Russians are our customers, and our stores are a part of their daily life. We are sensible of our responsibility to them and to the society at large", says Mr. Erwin Trinkl, METRO AG Senior Vice-President Public and Government relations in Russia. "It was very important for us to provide support that met the actual needs of people who had found themselves in a tight situation".
Food, blankets, bedclothes, household appliances, clothes – this is but an incomplete list of the commodities provided. Hundreds of pallets sent to the sufferers were put together in a matter of days, taking into account the basic needs of the homeless fire victims, owing to expeditious cooperation with the authorities in each of the regions.
Besides the aid from the sales lines, METRO GROUP organized a collection soliciting donations from shopping center customers. Lots of goods were gathered in the sales areas of real,- stores and also transferred to regional charity distribution centers.
Every customer of REAL,- can make contribution to environment protection now
The problem of environment protection cannot leave anyone indifferent now. Company real,- offers its customers to become participants of the worldwide movement for environment protection. In July of 2010, all hypermarkets real,- transited to environmentally friendly BIO bags instead of the ordinary polyethylene ones.
Do you know that an ordinary polyethylene bag decomposes almost for 150 years and releases various harmful substances? Now the customers of real,- are offered three kinds of paid BIO bags that decompose fully already in two years under influence of natural factors, which results in appearance of water, СО2 and biomass.
According to statistical data of the company, 15 real,- stores used about 7.080 million free polyethylene bags per month on average. In the first test month of use of the paid BIO bags consumption of the bags decreased to 1.035 million units. It is obvious that buyers prefer not to take bags "for reserve" and their attitude to consumption grows more accurate.
The quantity of discarded bags decreased by 6.045 million units per month on average. If we count approximate results from sale of BIO bags per year, it turns out that 72.54 million bags less go to the environment and those 12.43 million bags that will be discarded decompose 98.67% faster.
Buying a paid eco bag at cash terminals of real,- stores every buyer makes his contribution to improvement of environmental and social situation in his city. To understand which needs of a city are the priorities according to its residents, real,- polled buyers in all hypermarkets of the chain in Russia.
Results of the poll have shown that buyers consider such charity projects as development of territories and arrangement of green zones in the city, as well as aid to orphans, elderly people and people with impaired capabilities are the most expedient. Using these data, the company plans to transfer a part of the revenue from sale of the biologically decomposed packaging to the most demanded environmental and social projects in the cities of its presence.
Together we can make this world better!
METRO Cash & Carry is recognized as the Best Employer of 2009/2010
METRO Cash & Carry has been included into the list of the winners of the competition "Star Start" - 10 best employers of 2009/2010 for students and graduates, on the version of "Young Careerist", one of the leading consulting agencies on the graduate market.
"METRO Cash & Carry is the company that stresses long-term sustainable development of the business sector. The educational growth of the young generation is one of the most fundamental issues for the progress of business world", said Akin Bayer, Managing Director of METRO Cash & Carry Russia. "The company is striving for encouraging of talented and career-oriented young people. We feel proud to become once of the winners of the competition "Star Start" and we will be aiming to meet its high criteria further".
The competition has been organized by the group of companies "Young Careerist" on the basis of collected and systemized data of the expert agency GRP Expert.ru; regular surveys among students and graduates - members of community of Internet-portal CareerRussia.ru (more then 21,000 registered users) and sites of the social net CareerLife.ru; questionnaires on self-organized and universities' personnel venues (vacancies fairs, business games), etc.
Awarding of the winners took place on June 29 in the Moscow Mayor's Office within the framework of the conference "Responsibilities of the business and the power for professional development of students, graduates and young specialists".
Since 2004 METRO GROUP has been realizing its program of cooperation with professional schools "METRO Education". Annually more than 2000 students are trained in the sales lines of the holding.
Within the frame of the "METRO Education" initiative it is run METRO Graduate Recruitment Program - the program of training and employment of young specialists from students and graduates of universities. Since 2003 METRO Cash & Carry has actively supported the process of training, attestation and employment of the students and graduates from Russian State Trade-Economical University. In 2009-2010 the company has started further interaction with leading Russian high schools. At the moment the company is cooperating with REA of Plekhanov, HSB of MSU, HSE, Academy under Russian Government, IMBO, Academy of business and the others. The program of partnership includes joint Career fairs, master-classes by METRO GROUP management, graduate recruitment and internship programs. The best graduates are employed by METRO Cash & Carry and the other sales lines.
METRO Cash & Carry is represented in 31 countries with around 670 self-service wholesale stores. With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, the company achieved sales of about € 31 billion in 2009. METRO Cash & Carry is a sales division of the METRO GROUP. METRO GROUP is one of the largest and most important international retailing companies. In 2009 the Group reached sales of around € 66 billion. The company has a headcount of around 290,000 employees and operates over 2,100 stores in 34 countries. The Group's performance is based on the strength of its sales divisions which operate independently in their respective market segment: Metro/Makro Cash & Carry – the international leader in self-service wholesale, Real hypermarkets, Media Markt and Saturn – European market leader in consumer electronics retailing, and Galeria Kaufhof department stores.
METRO Cash & Carry and CFD Charity fund together give children a holiday
As a company, running socially responsible business, METRO Cash & Carry pays special attention to those who need help. METRO stores throughout Russia are actively involved in charitable projects to help orphan's homes, ill children, both directly and through the charity funds, participation in media projects, in campaigns of local governments.
In 2009, METRO Cash & Carry entered into a partnership agreement on cooperation with the Central Federal District Charity fund.
The aims and objectives of the CFD Charity fund are the implementation of a charity work on support and development of social policies initiated by the President of the Russian Federation as the creation of decent living conditions for orphans, the overcoming of social orphanhood, adoption of a healthy lifestyle and increase of the birth rate in the Central Federal District.
Starting from September 2009 in all METRO Cash & Carry stores in Moscow and Moscow region it have been installed donation boxes within the framework of the campaign "Give Children a Holiday!" carried out by the Fund.
The funds are sent to help orphans in institutions within the framework of the "Programme of help to inmates and graduates of orphan's homes and children left without parental care and children in difficult situations": 
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The donation boxes are located in METRO stores at the exit next to the cash-desks. Each ruble, every kopeck will go to the needs of the orphans.
Boxes for donations are installed in the stores located at:
During the period from October to December 2009 there were withdrawn 133,638 rubles 20 kopecks. Donations were sent to the purchase and delivery of Christmas gifts in 33 orphan homes of the Central Federal District. On December 17, 2009 the Fund sent the children Christmas gifts:
During the period from January to March 2010 there were withdrawn 232,226 rubles 73 kopecks. Donations will be used to repair a sports hall and social rehabilitation center for minors "Hope" in Kaluga region.
METRO Cash & Carry and the CFD Charity fund sincerely thank everyone for their assistance. Do not pass by! Your help is needed for children!
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