Rewe Group

The Rewe Group is one of the leading trade and tourism groups in Europe. The Group currently employs 320,000 people in 16 European countries. The external turnover in 2008 was €49.8 billion with €33.95 billion generated in Germany alone. In Germany, the REWE Group operates the supermarkets REWE, REWE Center, REWE City, the self-service store toom, the specialist stores toom, Baumarkt DIY Stores, B 1 DIY Discount and ProMarkt, the toom beverage shop as well as the travel agencies ATLASREISEN, DER, and DERPART. Austria is the main foreign market with the supermarkets BILLA, MERKUR, the PENNY discount stores and the BIPA drugstores. REWE is also active in France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, Romania, Croatia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria and Poland. In total, the Group operates almost 15,000 stores.
The REWE Group, founded in 1927, still has a co-operative organization structure. The turnover generated by independent retailers under the REWE umbrella in 2008 amounted to €8.38 billion. 

 

Glocken Bäckerei

The Glocken Bäckerei was founded in 1904 as a bakery named Glockenbrot. It was acquired by REWE in 1986. This bakery has turned into one of the leading suppliers of bread and baked goods in Germany, generating a total turnover of about €160 million , REWE has now four production companies including the facility in Bergkirchen. The parent company is located in Frankfurt/Main employing 700 bakers work in three shifts. The bakery acquired the chain store bakery Hindermann from Bergheim, near Cologne in 2004 and this was followed by the chain store bakery Rothermel in Östringen in 2009. The Glocken Bäckerei serves several distribution channels within the REWE Group as well as approximately 250 of its own bakery outlets and about 150 shop-in-shop stores.