German-based Metro group plans to develop its domestic unit - MGI Metro Group Technology Romania, to provide IT services to the group's companies and is looking to recruit over 100 software engineers from the labour market.
The number of domestic staff employed by MGI Metro is likely to exceed 200 by the end of the year. "We're strengthening our IT operations outside Germany, in Bucharest. This development is part of Metro's internationalisation policy, which entails operations in new locations that can provide skilled IT support," reads a statement released by the Metro Group.
The headquarters of MGI Metro Group Technology are in D?sseldorf, Germany, with subsidiaries in Poland, Russia, Turkey and Romania.
The development of MGI Romania will support plans related to the expansion of Metro's international store network, which includes Romania, where the retailer has carried out an aggressive growth strategy with its Real hypermarket division.
In fact, the integrated structure of the group has allowed Real to become, after Kaufland, the most dynamic hypermarket network on the market, after it opened 8 stores in 2006. The two domestic Metro networks share the same warehouse space and have one procurement centre.
MGB Metro Group Buying Romania, the procurement centre for domestic Metro Cash & Carry stores and Real hypermarkets, was set up in 2005 and works with more than 1,000 domestic food and non-food suppliers. MGB Romania became part of Metro Group Buying International last year.
Germany's Metro retail group is currently the largest player in the Romanian trade industry, with 23 Metro Cash & Carry outlets and 9 Real hypermarkets. Metro Romania officials announced the end of its territorial expansion of cash & carry outlets, while Real Hypermarket plans to develop a chain of 21 hypermarkets by the end of next year.
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