Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Women power

"Call Jane" takes a critical look at women's rights in the USA in the 1960s. In "She Said", German director Maria Schrader has turned the allegations of abuse against Harvey Weinstein into a gripping documentary thriller. And Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu takes the piss out of male vanity in "Bardo, the fictional chronicle of a handful of truths".

Strategy

Independence

Aiming for the supermarket of the future

What could the REWE supermarket look like in 2030? Eleven candidates for self-employment with REWE asked themselves this question at a first network meeting in Cologne. They found it valuable to exchange ideas with each other, with experienced self-employed people and managers from the Central locations.

Responsibility

10 years of REWE Group Star

Reusable cups and barefoot path

Ten winning teams were honoured for the tenth anniversary of the sustainability competition for young professionals. In their projects, they were committed to waste reduction, daycare centre children and refugees, and built feeders, insect hotels and a pergola for the monkey house. one briefly presents the winning projects.

Service

one_winnings

After the Advent calendar is before the Weekly Win

With 28,500 entries over 24 days and 45 prizes worth over €4,000, the last door of the one_Advent calendar 2022 has now been opened.

Responsibility

Diverse charity campaigns

When Father Christmas comes by moped

From the still important aid for flood victims in the Ahr region to aid in Ukraine: the REWE and nahkauf teams have supported people in need in a variety of ways throughout the year. one presents some exemplary campaigns from the last few weeks of the year.

Responsibility

nahkauf shows its heart again

Half a million euros for children

Once again this year, nahkauf retailers continued a tried and tested tradition and donated to children in need. The impressive donation sum was announced in front of an audience of millions.

Happy New Year...

... wishes the one_Team

The one_editors wish all employees a happy new year. The next one_Newsletter will be published on 4 January 2023.

Merry Christmas...

... wishes the one_Team

The one_editors wish all employees a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The next one_Newsletter will be published on 4 January 2023.

Strategy

Chatbot in the REWE app

REWE launches "REWE savings assistant" on Instagram

After WhatsApp, REWE is taking the next step in the digitalisation of offer communication via social media: the "REWE Savings Assistant". This is a chatbot that communicates with users in the private message area of Instagram and informs them about new coupons in the REWE app every week, among other things.

Responsibility

Southwest region

PENNY supports the fight against blood cancer

1.FSV Mainz 05 supported a DKMS typing campaign as part of a Christmas party. As the main sponsor of the Mainz 05 kids' club, PENNY Region Südwest made a donation to the campaign.

Work & Life

REWE Group Buying

Just say "you"

"You" or "you"? - This is also an increasingly common question at REWE Group - in collegial cooperation, within departments or in discussions with superiors. REWE Group Buying has now answered it clearly for itself.

Work & Life

Job Swop

"You can only benefit from it"

From Legal to Tax and back again: in-house lawyer Tatjana Pashchenko gained an in-depth insight into Pro Data with Job Swop. This now benefits both areas.

Work & Life

Lionel Souque and team

"Together we can also overcome this crisis"

The crises continue - that has been undisputed since the start of the war in February. This makes cohesion and strength all the more important in these times. In his personal Christmas greeting, Lionel Souque looks back on the past year and thanks all employees for their team spirit, passion and commitment.

Strategy

one_Podcast #23

Tanja Friesen on her commitment to children

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are. This time around, Tanja Friesen, a nahkauf saleswoman in Trabelsdorf near Bamberg, reveals how she has been involved with "Ein Herz für Kinder" for many years, why she always looks forward to Berlin and what her personal charity highlights have been.

Strategy

"There and away" in Munich

First autonomous REWE Pick&Go store opens

After two hybrid test stores in Cologne and Berlin, REWE Pick&Go reaches the next milestone: the first fully autonomous REWE store opens in Munich city centre. Munich's first "Pick&Go" customer was Bavarian State Minister Hubert Aiwanger.

Work & Life

Personnel in December

Who's coming, who's going

After 30 years at REWE, Thomas Helbig has entered the passive phase of partial retirement. His responsibilities will be taken over by Florian Sörensen, who is moving from the Rhine to the Eastern region. Jean-Marie Malbranke joins the managing directors of BILLA CEE. You can read about this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

Travel and Tourism

Summer holidays 2023: longer, more valuable, more sustainable

Holidaymakers are making increasingly conscious choices: A variety of experiences, quality, level of service and sustainability criteria are the key words. This is the summary of DERTOUR and its sister brands ITS and Meiers Weltreisen when looking at the travel trends for the coming year.

Responsibility

Charity Christmas dinner

Warm around the heart

When a woman without a home feels like a queen and a man without a job is moved to declare all helpers crazy, then the REWE Group has once again invited people to a Christmas dinner in Cologne's Gürzenich ballroom.

Responsibility

Aid for Haiti

"Christmas party is important"

In a country that is sinking into chaos, traditions are extremely important. That's why Pierre Hugue Augustin from Kindernothilfe Haiti recognises the importance of the Christmas party at Collège Verena. For one, he looks back on a difficult 2022 - and looks forward with hope to the coming year.

Work & Life

Relief for employees

Ten per cent discount on purchases at REWE and PENNY

From 1 January to 30 September 2023, REWE Group and its affiliated REWE retailers will grant all employees an inflation compensation discount of five per cent on purchases at REWE and PENNY. Together with the five per cent employee discount that will apply again from 1 January 2023, employees will continue to benefit from a total discount of ten per cent during this period.

Work & Life

Honouring the best trainees

"Be well rested"

Once again this year, trainees from REWE Group's Cologne locations achieved outstanding results in the IHK examinations. Four of them gave us their tips for successful learning.

Strategy

REWE Group

Lionel Souque remains Chairman of the Executive Board until the end of 2028

At its meeting today (7 December), the Supervisory Board of REWE Zentralfinanz eG extended Lionel Souque's contract as CEO of the REWE Group by a further five years until the end of 2028.

Responsibility

toom

Fairtrade poinsettias, more sustainable flower arrangements and Fair Trees

This year, toom is once again offering fairtrade Nordmann fir trees as well as more sustainable Christmas decorations and Advent wreaths. The Fairtrade-certified poinsettias are getting an upgrade thanks to a joint pilot project with Fairtrade. New at toom: customers can use their smartphone to check whether the Christmas tree really fits before buying.

REWE International AG

Campaign for more diversity

REWE International AG is committed to the legal rights and concerns of employees and customers with disabilities.

Strategy

REWE Christmas campaign

How subtle gestures make the world a little better

It's the little things in life that matter: this sentence could be the guiding principle for the REWE Christmas campaign. Because here, the little things are transformed into subtle gestures that make the world around us a little bit better.

Strategy

one_Podcast #22

Astrid Sandmann about the charity Christmas party

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them. This time, Astrid Sandmann tells us why she has been helping out at the REWE Group's charity Christmas party for disadvantaged Cologne residents for years. And why this celebration is her favourite Christmas.

Responsibility

Natural tree seal

PENNY sells locally grown Christmas trees

This year, for the first time, PENNY is only offering Nordmann fir trees from domestic growing regions. Around 80 per cent of these firs bear the natural tree seal, which identifies trees from sustainable cultivation.

one Weekly Win

The Weekly Win takes an Advent break

Here are the winners of the last Weekly Wins for 2022. one_Team would like to thank you for a total of 10,615 entries in 47 Weekly Wins!

People

Anniversaries in December

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in December.

Strategy

Flowers and plants

From the base to the specialist shop

Whether as a profiling department or in a neat self-service placement: flowers are a classic impulse item. one has the tips for blossoming revenue with manageable effort.

Work & Life

PENNY employees

"I say 'special' because I don't see it as a disability"

What severe disabilities mean for everyday working life: To mark International Day of People with Disabilities, one presents three PENNY colleagues with physical disabilities.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Germany in cinema autumn

Sönke Wortmann's family satire "The Surname" provides a high volume of pointed dialogue. A documentary about the writer Elfriede Jelinek vividly describes what it means to "let language off the leash". And the new film adaptation of "Nothing New in the West" is available on Netflix.

Strategy

E-charging station in Berlin

Fast charging with Shell

Shell Deutschland GmbH and the REWE Group have jointly put the first largest format of Shell Recharge fast-charging stations into operation at a REWE store in Berlin.

Service

one_Advent calendar 2022

Pre-Christmas presents with one

Once again this year, one brings the pre-Christmas spirit to your home. This year's Advent calendar is packed with surprises and high-quality prizes.

Advertorial

Cook your own home

Nelson Müller is the new brand ambassador for Tefal - under the motto "Cook your home". Because home doesn't have to be a place. With Tefal, you can conjure up feelings of home wherever you are in the world.

Responsibility

REWE ends DFB co-operation

"The scandalous attitude of FIFA is absolutely unacceptable to me"

Following FIFA's current decisions and the statements made by FIFA President Infantino, REWE Group clearly distances itself from FIFA's position and waives its advertising rights under the contract with the DFB - especially in the context of the World Cup.

Strategy

Travel and Tourism Group

Group-wide child protection guideline adopted

DER Travel and Tourism is increasingly committed to the protection of children in tourism. A Group-wide child protection guideline was therefore adopted for the first time on International Children's Rights Day.

Strategy

Market deployment at REWE Rippers

Theory meets practice

IT solutions and products are usually created at the desk and have to work in the market. So what could be more obvious than putting your own developments to the test on site in the store? That's what the specialist retail domain team at REWE digital thought and took over one of Hans Rippers' stores for a day.

Strategy

Compliance

REWE Group Hintbox goes live

If there is a suspicion that a company is violating internal guidelines or even committing a criminal offence, those responsible are dependent on such suspicions being reported. Such compliance reports can now also be submitted digitally at REWE Group.

Strategy

one_Podcast #21

Elisabeth Heinrichs on life balance for employees

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them. This time, Elisabeth Heinrichs tells us how the AWO Lifebalance Service supports employees with relatives in need of care - and has helped her herself.

Work & Life

Personnel in November

Who's coming, who's going

DER Travel and Tourism has a new sales manager and an experienced manager for travel agency sales. In Purchasing, the Convenience and Mopro product groups have new managers. You can read about this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

PENNY Austria

"Stöpselwald" collection project provides 1,000 new trees

In Waidhofen an der Thaya in Lower Austria, an area of forest lost to climate change has been reforested.

Responsibility

DER Travel and Tourism and Futouris

The climate footprint for travelling is coming

There are many climate labels and calculation standards for Sustainability - including in the travel industry. But so far there has been no standardised one. The newly founded KlimaLink association now wants to change this. Laura Steden, Head of Sustainability at founding member DER Travel and Tourism, explains how and why.

Strategy

Sponsoring

PENNY extends partnership with DEB ahead of schedule until 2028

It is a strong signal to ice hockey fans: following the early extension of its commitment with the DEL, PENNY is now also a premium partner of the DEB until 2028. The partnership will also be expanded further.

Strategy

REWE Green Farming

Rewarding the courage to be creative

The REWE Green Farming supermarket in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim has been honoured with the "Red Dot Award: Best of the Best" in the "Brands & Communication Design 2022" category. However, there was another positive surprise at the award ceremony in Berlin.

Work & Life

Older employees

"Career is not a question of age"

Ageing is a process. And those who actively shape this process at an early stage remain productive for a long time - physically, mentally, spiritually - and therefore also professionally: there are a good two decades of valuable and valuable work between midlife crisis and retirement.

Strategy

Guide to gendering

This is how we create linguistic equality

It is a much-discussed topic on which we at REWE Group are now taking a clear stance: Gender-equitable language. There is a clear goal behind this that we also identify with. We want to address all employees - regardless of their gender identity.

Strategy

PENNY

"The Rift" as a plea for dialogue

With this year's Christmas film, PENNY wants to set an example against the divisions in society. PENNY COO Stefan Görgens explains in the one_Interview why it is important to enter into dialogue with one another.

Strategy

"REWE Pick&Go"

Second hybrid supermarket opens in Berlin

The hybrid shopping concept "REWE Pick&Go" is now also being launched in the capital. From now on, customers at the REWE store in Prenzlauer Berg can pay for their purchases in the traditional way at the checkout or innovatively without a checkout process using "Pick&Go". REWE is thus further expanding its pioneering role in the German food retail sector. Federal Minister Dr Volker Wissing also visited the opening of the concept in Berlin.

Responsibility

Trainee sustainability projects

"Sustainability is not as difficult as you might think"

Doing good for the environment and strengthening team spirit at the same time: That was the wish of REWE Group's central trainees for this year's sustainability projects. Did it come true? Which topics did they focus on this year and why? We asked the project groups.

Work & Life

Quality control specialists

Both a challenge and an opportunity

Their relief was clear to see when they received their certificates: Just a few hours earlier, twelve employees from PENNY and REWE Group Fruchtlogistik had passed their final examination to become "Fruit and Vegetable Quality Control Specialists".

Work & Life

Golden Sugarloaf Foundation

Sponsorship award for nahkauf merchant

Fritz Starke was already his own boss at the age of 23. Today, the 27-year-old manages four nahkauf stores. The reward for his drive: the "Stiftung Goldener Zuckerhut" (Golden Sugar Loaf Foundation) award for young talent from the Lebensmittelzeitung.

Strategy

REWE Centre market tour

Never miss a trend

It is commonly said that standing still is going backwards. Experience shows: This also applies to currently successful market concepts, as customer demands are changing rapidly, and not just as a result of inflation and rapidly rising energy prices.

Responsibility

Pilot project with Fairtrade

More cuttings with the Fairtrade seal at toom

Toom is the first retailer in Germany to launch a pilot project with Fairtrade Germany for more cuttings with the Fairtrade seal. The aim: more fairly traded plants, lower production costs, higher premiums. In addition, toom pays an extra premium of one cent per Fairtrade plant purchased to the workers on the cutting farms.

People

Honouring the next generation

toom celebrates its graduates

On 18 October, the time had come for this year's toom graduates to celebrate after passing their exams - after a two-year break due to the pandemic, they were finally back in person and partying.

Strategy

one_Podcast #20

Jens Riepe about the REWE large-area store

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are. This time, Jens Riepe, Sales Manager REWE Centres national, talks about the challenge of serving a wide range of customer needs under one roof. A journey that began ten years ago and is far from over.

Strategy

Josef's nahkauf box

From experiment to success

It was a good six months ago. That was when Josef's nahkauf box opened its automatic door to customers in the 2,000-strong community of Pettstadt near Bamberg for the first time. We wanted to know how the mini-supermarket has been received and asked the operators and managers.

Work & Life

Save now

Redeem employee discount directly in the app

With the REWE or PENNY app, employees can now save money by storing their employee card in the app.

Responsibility

Diversity

REWE Group recognised as an LGBTIQ+ friendly employer

The Uhlala Group has honoured REWE Group with the Pride Champion employer seal. The award once again recognises REWE Group's open and inclusive corporate culture.

Kathrin Daivandran in conversation

"I am impressed anew every year"

It's a small record: 520 organisations that work for children and young people can look forward to the support of the Förderpenny this year. We spoke to project manager Kathrin Daivandran about future plans.

Work & Life

REWE Academy

Profitable for all

They have made it: after one and a half years of intensive learning, 44 senior managers have completed the REWE Academy and received their graduation certificates. Four of them tell us how this time has helped them professionally and personally.

Strategy

Ice hockey sponsorship

PENNY raffles off tickets for the Germany Cup

Excitement on the ice is pre-programmed when four national teams compete against each other at the Germany Cup. With a bit of luck, employees can win tickets for the international tournament.

Work & Life

Generational change in purchasing

Not bored for a second

One has been with the company as long as the other has been alive. Ingo Faßbender and Simon Offermann talk about old and new times in food purchasing, similarities and what the job has to do with creativity.

Work & Life

Creative Award

The service winners

Every year, teams from the service counters for cheese and meat compete for one of the coveted trophies in the "Kreativ Award", along with a certificate and prize money for a joint team event. This year there were three awards for REWE stores.

People

Laura Mewald

Firmly in the saddle with ZooRoyal

ZooRoyal employee Laura Mewald has also dedicated her free time to her love of animals and Zooroyal.

Strategy

"Month of the heart" at nahkauf

Moving moments for young and old

Instead of the traditional Heart Week, nahkauf dedicated an entire month to a good cause for the first time. The nahkauf teams put their hearts and souls into collecting money for needy children in September. one has collected some impressions of the wide-ranging commitment.

Strategy

toom

Offers directly to your smartphone

toom is expanding its digital services and is now the first DIY store to send its brochures via WhatsApp.

Strategy

REWE Blumentritt in Meerbusch

Milestone for the mobility turnaround

Shop in peace while your electric car refuels: at REWE Blumentritt in Meerbusch, the electricity flows into the vehicle batteries at lightning speed - thanks to the four particularly powerful EnBW fast-charging stations. This is the first location of several hundred that will follow in the coming months and years.

Responsibility

Customer campaign

REWE and nahkauf help food banks with food for 2.64 million euros

REWE, nahkauf and customers supported the food banks in Germany with around 487,000 donation bags nationwide. From 10 to 22 October, more than 3,700 REWE and 450 nahkauf stores as well as the REWE online shop called on customers to buy a donation bag for their local food bank.

Strategy

PENNY

Zipfelmensch against homophobia

With this year's edition of the Zipfelmenschen, PENNY is setting an example for more tolerance and cosmopolitanism in sport. We spoke to PENNY COO Stefan Görgens about the background.

People

Anniversaries in November

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in November.

Work & Life

one_Podcast #19

Rainer Brix on 40 international REWE years

In the one_Podcast, we usually ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are. This time, however, we're taking you on a journey through time: Non-food specialist Rainer Brix looks back on 40 highly eventful years at the Group, formative companions and amusing experiences between Cologne and Hong Kong.

Work & Life

Women's network f.ernetzt

"For all women of the REWE Group"

The first in-person meeting of the REWE Group women's network f.ernetzt since the coronavirus pandemic offered plenty of input and even more dialogue.

Top topic

Interview with Drasko Lazovic

"What drives us forward are our employees"

REWE took its first steps towards online grocery 10 years ago. In this interview, Managing Director Drasko Lazovic talks about the sustainability of the coronavirus effect, synergies with bricks-and-mortar retail and when he cycles to the grocery store.

Top topic

10 years of delivery service

On course for expansion

Ten years ago, the delivery service brought shopping to the first customers' homes. It has taken just ten years from deliveries from former stores to the state-of-the-art warehouses from which customers are supplied today. We show the milestones from the first delivery to the launch of the REWE app and the latest warehouses in Frankfurt and the Ruhr region.

Top topic

The favourites of the big cities

Beer in Munich, mate in Berlin?

Which delivery service products are ordered where? A look at the virtual shopping lists of customers in major German cities.

Top topic

Podcast Working Worlds

Georg Hannappel on the rapid development of the REWE delivery service

In the podcast Arbeitswelten, Georg Hannappel, Operations Manager at Scarlet One, talks about shirt-sleeved beginnings at the REWE delivery service, loyal customers and the big rush in 2020.

Top topic

What retailers say

"Huge relief for customers"

Home delivery of groceries is nothing new for some retailers who offer this service themselves. However, the pick-up service has enabled many retailers and shops to quickly switch to more flexible shopping options. Three retailers report on their experiences.

Service

Long-distance travelling with children

Tips for a relaxing family holiday

Family holidays abroad - is that a good idea? Yes, if you take a few things into account, says Sven Schikarsky. Here, the DER Travel and Tourism product manager reveals tips and tricks and gives specific travel recommendations.

Strategy

BILLA Austria

700 junior staff start their careers

From 5 to 20 October, BILLA welcomes its new trainees throughout Austria. On seven welcome days, young trainees get to know the regional sales team and find out what to expect in the coming years.

Work & Life

Personnel in October

Who's coming, who's going

Philipp Schachten takes over a newly created area at Retail Germany. There is a prominent change in the REWE Centre region. There are also changes in three Management Board offices. Read the personnel news of the month here.

Strategy

Aral and REWE

Fast charging at 180 REWE stores in Germany

REWE has expanded its partnership with Aral to install Aral pulse fast-charging points at 180 REWE stores across Germany. This means that customers can also use their shopping time for charging.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Time for satire

Michael Bully Herbig takes on the case of reportage faker Claas Relotius in "Tausend Zeilen", while Swede Ruben Östlund gets to grips with the rich and beautiful in his "Triangle of Sadness". And British director Danny Boyle sends the irony-laden zeitgeist of punk into the race with six episodes of "Pistol".

Strategy

New IT unit

REWE digital and REWE Systems merge

The increasingly close cooperation between REWE Group's two strong technology divisions has quickly made it clear in recent months: as a joint unit, REWE digital and REWE Systems are the most effective for all areas of REWE Group. From now on, the know-how and innovative spirit of around 2,200 employees will come together under one organisational roof as "REWE digital GmbH".

Strategy

one_Podcast #18

Martina Stolz on the new REWE digital

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are. This time, Martina Stolz from REWE digital talks about the new corporate identity and future challenges.

Strategy

Fundraising campaign

Food banks need help to be able to help

More and more customers, less and less food: food banks in Germany are under pressure and are often barely able to meet the demand from people living in poverty. REWE and nahkauf are once again providing support this year with the REWE food bank weeks.

People

REWE Group at the Cologne Marathon

The runners "made legs"

With 3,903 kilometres run and 225 runners, REWE Group was once again well represented at the first Cologne Marathon after the two-year coronavirus break - and for a good cause. There was also a healthy "marathon menu" for the runners in the REWE Group catering village.

Entertainment

one_autumn competition 2022

Pure indulgence in the second autumn competition week - these are the winners

With one, autumn will be an enjoyable time: whether you want to cook healthily or start the cooler season with exquisite, delicious dishes - the one_autumn competition makes it possible. Find out here whether you have won the second round.

Strategy

Telerik Shishmanov

"We are consistently staying the course"

Telerik Shishmanov, REWE Group's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), explains why it is important to continue investing heavily, the challenges involved and why diversity should not necessarily apply to shopping trolleys.

Responsibility

Climate Challenge

1.500 euros presented to NABU

Protecting the climate and supporting the NABU climate fund at the same time: Numerous REWE Group employees took part in this year's climate challenge. The resulting donation has now been handed over to NABU.

Advertorial

Be mobile with top insurance

Gothaer's motor insurance offers you first-class benefits for your privately used car - in liability insurance as well as fully and partially comprehensive insurance. And all this in cooperation with the RVD - and many benefits for you as an employee!

Strategy

Pilot project by REWE and EnBW

Electricity for electric cars, sandwiches for drivers

Shop for groceries around the clock while the electric car charges: In the first automated pilot shop under the "REWE ready" brand, the vehicle and driver refuel at the same time.

Work & Life

Jana Sipkova, Trainee RIAG

"The market mission was very instructive"

After her studies and initial experience in consulting, Jana Sipkova wanted a fresh start with a practical focus. She found what she was looking for on the international trainee programme at REWE International AG. In the one_Interview, she explains why the market placement was so valuable and what she is particularly looking forward to in her new role in Wiener Neudorf.

Work & Life

Waste collector Heiko Jäger

With conviction against rubbish

While others tidy up their garden after work or go for a jog, he reaches for his telescopic tongs and bag: Heiko Jäger is a passionate litter picker. The Dortmund native spends a large part of his free time clearing rubbish from his surroundings. His efforts to get more people interested in a clean environment are passionate and varied. one spoke to the man of conviction.

Test at REWE

"Customers want a vegan range at the service counter"

REWE is now also bringing vegan substitute products to the service counter. The target group includes meat eaters in particular. Alexander Rußler, Project Manager Vegan and Vegetarian Strategy, explains why.

Strategy

PENNY graduate party

Young talent flying high

It wasn't just the special venue that gave the participants at PENNY's graduation ceremony a sense of elation.

Advertorial

"Brands and markets must provide orientation"

Robert Kecskes, Global Insights Director at GfK, Livia Kolmitz, Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Mondelez International and Kerstin May, Functional Head of Sustainability Communications at REWE Group, spoke in May about Sustainability, challenges in communications and the importance of staying power.

Strategy

The fight against food waste

BILLA extends cooperation with Too Good To Go to all 1,300 stores

BILLA is further expanding a measure against food waste: Since 26 September, Too Good To Go "surprise boxes" have been available in all 1,300 BILLA and BILLA PLUS stores throughout Austria.

People

Anniversaries in October

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in October.

Strategy

Fire at Wilhelm Brandenburg

Exemplary commitment

Shock in the early evening: A warehouse is on fire at the Wilhelm Brandenburg plant in Gäufelden. Fortunately, there is only material damage - thanks to the numerous helpers.

Strategy

Interview on the Horizon project

"Everyone goes the extra mile"

Catrin Bluhm from REWE digital and Marko Scheffler from REWE Systems are managing the Horizon project and are thus also setting the course for the two IT units to grow together. We spoke to the two project managers about the status of Horizon, new cultural formats and the importance of transformation.

Work & Life

25 years of PENNY Czech Republic

Found a home, a harbour and a family

PENNY opened its first store in the Czech Republic 25 years ago. A joint look back and ahead with three employees from the very beginning, Alena Bothová, Karel Kubista and Martina Kadeřábková.

Strategy

25 years of PENNY Czech Republic

"We are close to our customers"

The year 1997: The first instalment of the Harry Potter series is released in London and the clone sheep Dolly is presented to the public in Scotland. In the same year, PENNY opened its first stores in the Czech Republic. To mark its 25th anniversary, we spoke to Jens Krieger, managing director of PENNY Czech Republic.

Strategy

one_Podcast #17

Ines Schurin on contemporary corporate communications

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. This time, Ines Schurin talks about the changes in communication and what this means for contemporary corporate communication.

Strategy

Travel and Tourism Group

"We move forward together as a group"

The future of DER Travel and Tourism Group was discussed at this year's International Management Days in Travemünde. In this interview, the three members of the future Executive Board, Dr Ingo Burmester (CEO Central Europe), Leif Vase Larsen (CEO International) and Boris Schnabel (CFO Group), talk about their plans for the coming year.

Strategy

New service

REWE now also offers vegan products in service counters

From now on, vegan products will also be available at the service counters in around 50 selected REWE stores nationwide. With this new service, REWE is once again underpinning its strategic claim to consistently support vegan nutrition and offer consumers the corresponding product ranges.

Nutrition & Health

Tips from the marathon ambassador

"Stretching is extremely important"

Cologne Marathon ambassador Hendrik Pfeiffer gives tips for good running preparation: here in the one_interview and at the running meeting with marathon participants from the REWE Group workforce.

New management structure

DER Travel and Tourism Group announces new Executive Board

From 1 January 2023, Dr Ingo Burmester (CEO Central Europe), Leif Vase Larsen (CEO International) and Boris Schnabel (CFO Group) will form the operational management team of DER Travel and Tourism Group as the Executive Board. They will report directly to the CEO of the REWE Group, Lionel Souque, when Sören Hartmann, CEO DER Travel and Tourism Group, leaves the company at the end of the year.

Work & Life

Recruiting

"Companies are vying for the best talent"

Demographic change and the shortage of skilled labour present employers with the challenge of competing for the best talent. Melanie Günther, Team Lead Talent Sourcing, explains how REWE Group is responding to this and why personal and social networks are playing a growing role in recruiting.

Corporate Communications

Adapting to new challenges

Ines Schurin has been responsible for Corporate Communications at REWE Group since 1 July 2022. In this role, she has now begun to adapt the structure of the company's communication units to the new requirements of different interest groups within and outside the company. She spoke to Judith Morgenschweis in the one_Podcast about what this means for the relevant departments and what she understands by contemporary corporate communications.

Rhine octopus inaugurated

REWE supports waste trap

Every day, a tonne of rubbish flows down the Rhine. The Cologne-based association Krake e.V. wants to fight this flood and has installed a rubbish trap on the Rhine based on the British model. How it works and why REWE is supporting the project.

Work & Life

App for REWE employees

Knowledge for your pocket

Has the latest wine bill arrived yet? What's new in the REWE world? What does the perfect set-up look like? Questions like these will soon be answered quickly: thanks to the app for all REWE store employees.

Strategy

Change of leadership

PENNY opens a new chapter

On 1 October 2022, PENNY will open a new chapter in the company's history: Stefan Görgens will succeed Stefan Magel as Divisional Director Retail Germany of REWE Group and Chairman of the PENNY Managing Directors.

Strategy

Corporate Website

REWE Group newsletter launched

Whether press releases, interviews or opinion pieces: If you don't want to miss any more news on the REWE Group corporate website, you can now sign up for a new newsletter. How to stay up to date with just a few clicks.

Work & Life

Personnel in September

Who's coming, who's going

With Robert Schäfer and Martin Gruber, the West and South regions have new Retailers managers. Their predecessors have taken on new responsibilities. At Wilhelm Brandenburg, the long-standing Head of Production is retiring. Read the personnel news of the month here.

Strategy

PENNY and Berchtesgadener Land

Future builder project wins Fair Partner Award

The Berchtesgadener Land dairy was honoured with the Fair Partner Award for fairness along the supply chain.

Responsibility

Interview with NABU President

"We want to find solutions"

Acting instead of standing on the sidelines: REWE and NABU are joining forces to protect the climate. An interview with NABU President Jörg-Andreas Krüger explains why the focus is on peatlands, how REWE customers can make a contribution when shopping and where politicians now have a role to play.

Work & Life

one_Podcast #16

Franz-Josef Pelstring on IT security

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. This time, Franz-Josef Pelstring talks about the dangers and costs of hacker attacks and why prevention depends on all employees.

Strategy

WiWo Podcast

"Executive interview" with Lionel Souque

In Wirtschaftswoche's "Chefgespräch" podcast, editor-in-chief Beat Balzli discusses with top managers and economists. In the current issue, our CEO Lionel Souque explains why the retail sector is slowing down inflation, how his career began at the checkout in a socially deprived neighbourhood and why some manufacturers are currently trying to ride the price wave. Listen in now!

Responsibility

Climate Challenge

It's done: 20,000 kg of CO₂e saved

Whether it's giving up the car or eating a climate-friendly diet, numerous colleagues from REWE Group have joined forces in recent weeks to protect the climate. Now it's mission complete! Read here to find out what has saved the most CO₂e.

Top topic

Wanted - found

Young talents appreciate crisis-proof industry

Competition for skilled labour and trainees is fierce. There is a shortage of labour in many companies. Not so at REWE Group: the figures show that the business units are attractive and popular employers. This is not only due to the fact that food retailing is considered a crisis-proof industry. REWE Group also attracts employees with attractive benefits and modern recruiting.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

No quiet hinterland

Time and again, cinema likes to take a look at the provincial hinterland, where emotions run high between tradition and modern technology. Like in Kosovo, for example, where in "Hive" a young widow dares to first get a driving licence and then even start her own business. In the flat Holstein countryside in "Mittagsstunde", a son discovers several family secrets while caring for his parents. And if all this is still too close for comfort, you can watch a DVD in search of a "snow leopard" in the breathtakingly beautiful Tibetan highlands.

Top topic

Corporate Benefits

Healthy, profits and non-cash benefits

Much more than a Christmas bonus: REWE Group scores points with its employees and potential applicants with employee benefits. The benefits include not only financial incentives, but also social, cultural and health-related offers.

Top topic

What the junior staff say

"The work here never gets monotonous"

The days when young people had to send off hundreds of applications before they got a job are over. Today, young talent is in high demand and will remain so in the future. one asked trainees from all business units what they particularly value about their training.

Top topic

REWE career on Tiktok

"Biggest transfer since Lewandowski"

If you want to appeal to Generation Z, there's no getting round Tiktok. REWE has been using the channel for a year to break new ground in employer branding and directly approach potential trainees. And with success: REWE recently won over a real Tiktok star and reached millions of people.

Work & Life

Quality control specialists

Ambition pays off

After a forced break due to the pandemic, a new IHK-certified training course for fruit and vegetable quality control specialists started in May. For the graduates of the first seminar, the effort has paid off.

People

Little Homes

World record for homeless people

100 people build ten mini houses in ten hours: The Little Home association invited people to Berlin in mid-August to attempt this world record. The winners are the homeless people who will now benefit from the little houses.

Advertorial

The French fries trend in the frozen food aisle

McCain's street fries bring the street food feeling home. Crispy fries and flavoursome sauces in a variety of delicious flavours, quick and easy to prepare. Now with even more content and a new campaign in autumn 2022.

People

Special Olympics

REWE colleague Julius Dietrich wins gold

REWE employee Julius Dietrich from Lehrte won two gold medals at the Special Olympics in Berlin. He won both the singles and doubles in tennis.

Strategy

THE crisis management

"Travelling in more comfort again next year"

Corona and flight chaos: DER Travel and Tourism's crisis management team has perhaps been more challenged than ever in recent years. Head Melanie Gerhardt explains how the work has changed, how her crisis team has outgrown itself and what hopes she has for the coming travel year.

Strategy

PENNY Romania

More than just a press conference

Why waste the many good stories to be told in Romania at a single meeting with media representatives? A series of events would be better. That's what the communicators at PENNY International thought and developed PENNY la zi. The innovative format has now received one of the most prestigious international PR awards.

Strategy

REWE leaflet

Sundays over and over again: offers via WhatsApp

After announcing that it would be the first major food retailer to discontinue printed flyers by summer 2023, REWE is now taking the next step in the digitalisation of its offers: From now on, customers can have the flyer of their favourite REWE store sent to their mobile phone - every Sunday via WhatsApp.

People

Jubilees in September

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in September.

Responsibility

Energy saving

16 tips for everyday life

They are the topic of the moment: the rising cost of energy. We consumers cannot influence the price trend. But there are ways to offset them somewhat by saving money. one has collected energy-saving tips. Many of them can be easily implemented at work and at home.

Strategy

Very high design quality

Red Dot Award for REWE Green Farming in Erbenheim

The REWE Green Farming supermarket in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim has been honoured with the "Red Dot Award: Best of the Best" in the "Brands & Communication Design 2022" category. According to the jury of the renowned international competition, the pilot store impressed with its excellent design quality and creative performance.

Responsibility

Sponsoring

1. FC Köln and REWE Group celebrate diversity

#LEBEwiedubist - with this campaign, 1 FC Köln and the REWE Group are campaigning for acceptance, diversity and equality as well as against discrimination and marginalisation - in sport and in society. To this end, 1. FC Köln organised its Bundesliga home match against VfB Stuttgart under the motto Diversity.

Strategy

Sponsoring

PENNY extends ice hockey commitment ahead of schedule

It is a strong signal for clubs and fans: PENNY is extending its ice hockey commitment with the DEL for another four years until 2028.

Work & Life

one_Podcast #15

Lisa Mangold gives tips from trainee to trainee

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. This time, Lisa Mangold talks about the start of her own apprenticeship two years ago and gives the new trainees some valuable tips.

Strategy

Online Annual Report 2020

REWE Group receives Red Dot Award

The REWE Group online annual report 2020 entitled "Moving times. Determined action." was honoured with the Red Dot Award in the "Brands & Communication Design 2022" category.

Advertorial

Your milk moments are as individual as you are.

Inspired by 50 years of breast milk research, Aptamil offers high-quality products and services that are tailored to these individual needs.

Strategy

Start-up show on Vox

Quinoa bites are "The tastiest idea in Germany"

The Latin American snack from el origen won over the test eaters in this year's "Germany's Tastiest Idea" competition. The winning product is now listed at REWE.

Responsibility

Aid for Haiti

"We are vigilant and pray that nothing happens to anyone"

The wheat shortage caused by Russia's war against Ukraine is also affecting Haiti, almost 10,000 kilometres away. How are the children in the Caribbean country, which is already affected by crises and poverty? How are the school projects supported by REWE Group and its employees doing? Questions for Kindernothilfe employee Hugue Augustin.

Responsibility

"Country farmers pig"

Hand in hand for fair meat

The regional REWE meat programme "Landbauern Schwein" has received the "Fair Partner 2022" award. With this award, the trade magazines "Lebensmittelpraxis" and "Top Agrar" recognise exemplary projects for fair trade relations.

Strategy

REWE International AG

Petrol station shops become "Billa Now"

Following the merger of the Billa and Merkur brands just over a year ago, the bp petrol station shops in Austria are now also becoming part of the Billa brand family: "Merkur inside" is now gradually becoming "Billa Now".

Service

Tips for hot days

Healthy through the height of summer

Anyone whose comfort temperature isn't a cosy 33 degrees is likely to reach their physical limits these days. Whether in the office, in the warehouse or in the market - of course, there are clear differences in the way we work - but most people suffer from the heat.

Work & Life

Personnel in August

Who's coming, who's going

A change of position at Travel and Tourism: Kevin Keogh is looking for a career change after 25 years, and Matthias Lange is moving up. In Austria, too, the hour of the marketing makers has come. Read about this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

Food Fulfilment Centre Neuss

REWE delivery service picks up the pace

Ordered in the morning, delivered in the evening - the new Food Fulfillment Centre in Neuss is more than just the hub for deliveries in the region from Düsseldorf to Duisburg - including same-day delivery. The FFC is also another important expansion step in 2022.

Responsibility

one_Podcast #14

Sonja Liedke on the climate challenge for employees

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 14, Sonja Liedke, Project Manager Sustainability, explains how employees can now reduce their CO₂e emissions by taking part in a joint campaign - and why it pays to take part.

Responsibility

Nutrition and climate protection

Climate change: every bite counts

Time is running out in the fight against climate change, according to the latest World Climate Report. But people often forget this: What ends up on our plates is a major contributor. What schnitzel has to do with the climate and how you can protect the climate by making small changes when shopping and eating.

Strategy

New co-operation

PENNY, CTS Eventim and epay bring event tickets to the supermarket checkout

The new cooperation between the event, retail and financial services sectors links important economic sectors and provides new growth impetus after the coronavirus crisis with an innovative and scalable ticketing solution for music, sporting and cultural events.

Strategy

Conveyor penny

Lukas Podolski becomes ambassador

The football idol will be the authentic face of the children and youth development project until 2025. The Förderpenny voting phase started on 15 August.

Strategy

Food production

Herbs from the shipping container

Billa is trialling vertical farming: herbs and salads are grown in a shipping container outside a Billa Plus store in Vienna. The produce is sold directly in the store.

Impetus for business

Water trends

"Heat drives consumption"

From returnable glass to regionality and vitamin supplements: Manuel Danischus, Senior Category Buyer AfG at REWE and responsible for water purchasing, is familiar with current water trends and drinking habits.

People

Reopening after the flood

"Cohesion has given us strength"

38 stores in the western region were destroyed by the floods in summer 2021. Anna Pauly was recently able to reopen her REWE Centre in Kall (Eifel). She explains here how the experience shaped her and her team.

Strategy

PENNY DEL barbecue championship

Hot duels with cool boys

Four million fans watched the "PENNY DEL Grill Championship" last year. The format has now entered its second season and is being expanded even further.

Responsibility

Doing more for the climate

Saving CO2 together - with #umdenkbar and the climate challenge

A climate-friendly and more sustainable world is conceivable if we rethink together. REWE is convinced of this - and is launching #umdenkbar to communicate its long-standing and current sustainability initiatives. By purchasing REWE organic products, customers automatically support the NABU climate fund to save the moors. And all REWE Group employees can also help the environment by taking part in a joint climate challenge.

Responsibility

Conserving resources and the climate

REWE and PENNY give away reusable fresh food nets

As part of the sustainability strategy "Avoid. Reduce. Improve." rEWE Group wants to encourage even more customers to buy unpackaged fruit and vegetables in the reusable fresh produce network.

Strategy

PENNY

The festival trend is vegan bowls and beer

300 DJs, 10 stages and 85,000 visitors a day: that's Parookaville. PENNY was also a sponsor again this year and provided party fans with everything their festival hearts desire around the clock in two pop-up markets. If you're already in the mood for the next festival, you can win tickets for the new San Hejmo Festival.

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La Mia Pinsa gets a colourful addition

Nutty, tangy rocket, fine mozzarella, marinated cherry tomatoes and aromatic pecorino - that's the taste of Italy and the new La Mia Pinsa from Dr Oetker! The new variety has been added to the vegetarian Pinsa selection in freezers since June 2022.

Strategy

On BBB (outlook: stable)

Standard & Poor's Rating Upgrade of REWE Group

Standard & Poor's has upgraded REWE Group's rating from BBB- to BBB (outlook: stable). As part of its analysis, S&P particularly recognises REWE Group's stable business profile with excellent market positions in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.

Strategy

DERTOUR Travel Barometer

How the pandemic has changed travel behaviour

How big spenders are holidaymakers this summer? How much comfort do they allow themselves? How long are they travelling for and which destinations are at the top of the popularity scale? These and many other questions are answered by the DERTOUR Travel Barometer Summer 2022.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Peach conspiracy in the cinema

Because their peaches are no longer making a profit, solar panels are placed in front of a Spanish fruit-growing family. In her Golden Bear-winning social drama "Alcarràs - The Last Harvest", director Carla Simón tells the story of how this affects the minds of three generations. Marc-Uwe and his hairy flatmate have to deal with confused climate change deniers in "The Kangaroo Conspiracy". Because there is no common thread to help them, author and co-director Marc-Uwe Kling uses all film genres. Meanwhile, Martin Freeman reaches the limits of his nerves as a beat cop in the British six-parter "The Responder".

People

The jubilarians in August

Congratulations!

The employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in August.

Strategy

For climate and resources

REWE dispenses with paper leaflets

The end of a retail tradition: REWE is the first food retailer in Germany to decide to phase out printed flyers. The weekly leaflet about the offers in the more than 3,700 REWE stores nationwide is one of the oldest advertising media in the industry and is distributed to many millions of households in Germany.

Strategy

Comments on the flyer

"A benefit for the environment"

REWE wants to discontinue the printed flyer. one spoke to Peter Maly about the effects on the climate and resources. Plus: three retailers on their experiences without printed flyers.

People

one_Podcast #13

Sandra Pauli on the Ehrensache mentoring programme

In the one_Podcast, we ask our colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 13, we talk to Sandra Pauli about the volunteer mentoring programme Ehrensache - listen in now!

Advertorial

New: meridol® all-round care

The new all-round care system from the No. 1* for gum protection can do both: it soothes sensitive gums and offers protection for teeth that are sensitive to pain.

Strategy

PENNY International

Managing directors run two branches for two days

PENNY managing directors Ralf Teschmit and Mario Märzinger ran two shops together and offered PENNY customers the usual PENNY service on site. The employees at each shop took an extra day of holiday during this time.

Entertainment

This was the FC season opener

Autograph marathon, music, football and lots of "Kölsches Hätz"

50.000 FC fans celebrated the season opener of 1. FC Köln on the forecourt of the RheinEnergieStadion last Saturday. In addition to the large main stage, which was presented by REWE Group, the REWE, DER Travel and Tourism and ZooRoyal sales divisions enriched the family festival with numerous promotional stands.

Strategy

More sustainable transport

Toom and Miles start co-operation

Since 25 July, users of the car-sharing and van-sharing provider Miles have been able to park for 60 minutes free of charge in Toom car parks at 15 locations. The pilot project will initially run until the end of 2022.

Work & Life

Interview with a job-sharing tandem

1 position, 200 per cent brain..

... seven children and a shared e-mail address: Daniela Charalambis and Kathrin Tischer have been sharing a management position under the name DAniKa for ten months. In the one_Interview, they explain the advantages this has for them and for the company.

Strategy

Voucher and prepaid offer

REWE Group and epay extend partnership for digital value-added services

The REWE Group and the full-service payment provider epay are putting their cooperation for voucher and prepaid products in Germany for the REWE, PENNY and toom brands as well as Lekkerland on a new footing and extending their partnership.

Strategy

Partner for festivals

PENNY goes Party becomes PENNY.Festivals

With PENNY.festivals, PENNY is starting a new chapter and is now committed to being an unconventional, innovative and sustainable partner at and for festivals 365 days a year. In addition to large major festivals such as Parookaville, smaller and medium-sized festivals are also on the list for the first time.

Strategy

New food fulfilment centre

Picking with "Picking Loop" and "Pick-by-Light"

The REWE delivery service has opened a food fulfilment centre in Frankfurt. With the "Picking Loop" and "Pick by Light", it offers two technical innovations.

Entertainment

one_Bundesliga prediction game 22/23

The best tipsters have been chosen!

The 2022/23 Bundesliga season is over. And the champions are once again Bayern Munich.

Strategy

New non-food building block concept

Simply make the right choice

Customers appreciate being able to do their shopping in one store. REWE retailers and store managers, on the other hand, want to tailor their product range to the location. The Non-Food division has geared its new modular concept precisely to these needs.

Entertainment

For the Bundesliga start in 2022/2023

1. FC Köln celebrates season opener

Next Saturday, 23 July, 1 FC Köln will once again be hosting its traditional season opener on the RheinEnergie Stadium pitch. REWE Group, together with its sales divisions REWE, DER Travel and Tourism and ZooRoyal, will contribute to a successful family day with numerous interactive offers.

Strategy

PENNY management conferences

Emerging stronger from crises with continuity and foresight

Almost 3,000 PENNY senior managers met in Hanover, Cologne, Berlin, Unterschleißheim and Frankfurt under the motto "#WIRSINDEINS!". These were special meetings, as they were Stefan Magel's last.

Strategy

A market emerges

The REWE at Rudolfplatz, part 5

The REWE on Rudolfplatz is taking shape. It has now been finalised: Markus Kelterbaum will take over the store. We spoke to him about the appeal of stores that don't fit a mould and about his ideas for the location.

People

Diversity in REWE Systems

More courage for more diversity

In our one_Diversity Special, six REWE Systems employees talk about what diversity means to them, how important it is in working together and when it takes courage to embrace it.

People

one_Podcast #12

Barbara Reuth on the women's network f.ernetzt

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 12, we talk to Barbara Reuth, Head of CoE Talent Management and one of the coordinators of f.ernetzt, about the REWE Group's internal women's network - listen in now!

Strategy

Eco-field days 2022

REWE promotes sustainable research projects

A 20-hectare exhibition area, 11,500 visitors and 330 exhibitors - that was the Organic Field Days 2022. For the first time, REWE, gold sponsor of the organic performance show and research sponsor, took part at the Hessian State Domain near Villmar.

Work & Life

Personnel in July

Who's coming, who's going

Billa Czech Republic has a new CEO with international experience. Adeg manager Brian Beck is expanding the retailers model as a second Billa pillar. A new division is being set up in the Digital & Technology Management Board department. Read this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

Annual General Meeting

Standing together in a fast-paced world

Continuity in changing times - that was the message that the retailers and top management of REWE Group sent from Kitzbühel. It was also time to say goodbye to many long-standing office holders.

Strategy

Brand milestone

Nahkauf launches "Initiative Future"

Nahkauf is moving even closer to its big sister REWE in future. To this end, the tried-and-tested concept will be expanded to include additional services. In recent weeks, retailers were able to find out what these services will look like during a roadshow through the REWE regions.

Responsibility

Diversity

"We see the world from many angles"

Selling paint, wallpaper or screws - in Turkish, Romanian, Albanian or Japanese? No problem at the Toom Baumarkt DIY store in Griesheim. More than half of the 58 employees have roots outside Germany - there are more than 20 nationalities in the store. This is not only helpful for customers from all over the world. The diversity is also a major benefit for the colleagues at the store.

People

REWE Group at the CSD

Different and united

At the beginning of July (3 July), Cologne was all about "D'r Zoch kütt", but that didn't mean the Rose Monday parade. On the occasion of Christopher Street Day (CSD), 1.2 million visitors came to the city to set an example for tolerance and diversity - including numerous REWE Group employees.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Pure cinema art

The cinema starts the film summer with all its masterful versatility. Baz Luhrmann tells the story of "Elvis", Emma Thompson spends "My Hours with Leo" as a retired teacher in a hotel room and Ryūsuke Hamaguchis masterfully directs Haruki Murakami's short story "Drive My Car".

Strategy

PENNY Christmas film wins award

Cannes Grand Prix goes to "The Wish"

The highly acclaimed PENNY Christmas film "The Wish" has received the highest honour at the international creative festival in Cannes. This is the first time the award has gone to Germany.

Advertorial

Time for a change? Take part now and win with Vivera!

Meat substitutes are all the rage. Vivera has been producing delicious plant-based varieties for a better world since 1990 and welcomes anyone who wants to join the "Goodness Movement". The aim is to get everyone moving and make the switch to a plant-based diet as easy as possible. With products that taste just as good and have just as much bite as meat or fish, as well as delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes for every day.

Work & Life

Star Hack at Carlswerk

REWE Systems and REWE digital met for a hackathon

In mid-June, colleagues from REWE digital and REWE Systems met at the Carlswerk in Cologne for the Star Hack. This time, the main purpose of the hackathon was to work together and collaborate on site.

Strategy

Cybersecurity

How to get your mobile phone through your holiday virus-free

The authorities are recording more and more hacker attacks and cyber offences. We show you how to stay safe while on holiday.

People

Coveted industry prize

REWE dominates the "Supermarket Stars 2022"

It doesn't get any better than this: In the prestigious industry competition "Supermarket Stars 2022", REWE participants win gold in the categories Store Manager, Store Manager and Team of the Year as well as second place in the "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" sponsorship award.

Strategy

Diversity in recruiting

"Diverse teams can be a blessing"

Christopher Ranft, Head of Talent Acquisition at REWE Group, on job criteria for young applicants, gender-appropriate approaches and CVs without photos.

Responsibility

REWE merchant Parviz Azhari

"I need people who can lend a hand. No matter where they come from."

REWE salesman Parviz Azhari stands for a relaxed coexistence of cultures. Here he tells us what he exemplifies to his team, why origin plays no role, but good familiarisation plays a major role and which recent event has upset him.

People

one_Podcast #11

Cornelius Kämmerling on hybrid working

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them or what their current topics are. In episode 11, we talk to Cornelius Kämmerling about different needs in the workplace and where there is still room for improvement in virtual meetings - listen in now!

People

Jubilees in July

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in July.

Responsibility

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act

New obligations for markets

The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act comes into force on 1 July. It is intended to ensure that old appliances are disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner. REWE Group stores are also required to do so.

Entertainment

one_Summer competition 2022

These are the winners of the 2nd round

The one_Summer competition kicked off the hot season: we gave away great prizes for light enjoyment and cosy evenings.

Strategy

Diversity

REWE Group at the CSD in Cologne

Next Sunday (3 July) it's that time again. Cologne raises the rainbow flag for Christopher Street Day (CSD). Numerous REWE Group colleagues will be there to set an example for tolerance and diversity. Your support is also needed!

Strategy

New Management Board members as of 1 July

Christoph Eltze and Telerik Shishmanov expand Management Board

Telerik Schischmanow and Christoph Eltze will join the Management Board of REWE Group on 1 July. In a second step, Dr Daniela Büchel, Hans-Jürgen Moog and Peter Maly will complete the seven-member Management Board on 1 January 2023.

Strategy

Annual General Meeting

Erich Stockhausen confirmed as Chairman of the Supervisory Board

REWE-ZENTRALFINANZ eG (RZF) appointed its Supervisory Board for the next four years at its Annual General Meeting on Monday (27 June). The Supervisory Board also re-elected Erich Stockhausen as Chairman.

Work & Life

Rising cost of living

REWE Group doubles shopping discount for employees

From 1 July 2022, REWE Group will double the employee discount at REWE and PENNY for all REWE Group employees from five to ten per cent. The reasons for this are current economic and social developments.

Strategy

REWE Centre in Olching

Reopening with a wow effect

After four years of renovation, the REWE Center in Olching has been completely refurbished and modernised since the beginning of June. At 11,000 square metres, it is the largest in Germany.

Responsibility

Working together for more climate protection

Climate protection is teamwork

Companies that want to reduce their carbon footprint need to work closely with their suppliers. This is because a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions are generated in the supply chains. REWE Group launched a corresponding initiative at the end of last year. An interim report.

Strategy

Nature Conservation Award

Flourishing Austria wins Natura 2000 Award

The Billa Foundation Blooming Austria is committed to a healthy environment and ecologically sustainable agriculture. It has now been honoured with the European Commission's most prestigious nature conservation award.

Strategy

REWE Centre Kall

1.500 pick-up services on the network

REWE has opened its 1,500th pick-up service in Kall, underlining its market leadership in online grocery shopping.

Top topic

Three questions for Melanie Gerhard

Tips for a relaxed start to your holiday

Melanie Gerhardt, Head of Security and Crisis Management at DER Travel and Tourism, has tips on how to have a relaxed start to your holiday despite the tense situation at the airports.

Top topic

Strong service in the destination

"We have never left our customers out in the rain"

How DER Travel and Tourism survived the crisis in the destinations, is mastering the restart and what growing digitalisation has to do with Sustainability: Dr Klaus-Ulrich Sperl, CEO of DER Travel and Tourism Destination Management Companies, and Jürgen Heiss, Managing Director of DER Travel and Tourism Destination Services, in conversation.

Top topic

Dertour travel agencies

Travel planning between man and machine

Do you remember? Around a year ago, the colleagues at Dertour Reisebüro launched their advice platform reise-spezialisten.com. Since then, a lot has happened to optimise the mix of personal advice and artificial intelligence (AI). All of this follows a consistent and successful digitalisation strategy.

Top topic

Interview with Ingo Burmester

"We have learnt how strong we are as a team"

After two years of pandemic-induced restraint, consumers' desire to travel is almost unbroken again. Bookings are at pre-crisis levels. Even the war in Ukraine does not seem to have had any noticeable impact on this yet. one spoke to Dr Ingo Burmester, CEO of DER Travel and Tourism Central Europe, about rising travel prices, the learning effects of a pandemic, the challenges of the future - and about his favourite (holiday) spots on earth.

Top topic

Holiday tips

Our favourite destinations

The holiday has been approved, the anticipation is growing - now it's time to plan. But where should the holiday go? Colleagues from the Dertour travel agencies help you decide - with their very personal travel tips: from Mediterranean chill and luxury addresses on Mallorca to a rental car tour above the Arctic Circle and a jungle/beach combination on Bali.

People

one_Podcast #10

Tobias Koch on his commitment to LGBTIQ in the eastern region

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them or what their current topics are. In episode 10, we talk to Tobias Koch about his involvement in the di.to network in the eastern region to mark Pride Month - listen in now!

Responsibility

Traceability

REWE creates more transparency for organic milk and meat

Customers now have the opportunity to find out more about the origin and production stages of meat and milk from REWE's own organic brand. A QR code on the packaging makes it possible. one spoke to buyer Carolin Winkel about the background.

People

REWE Quermann in Bielefeld

From zero to industry leader

Unconventional, colourful and extremely successful - in less than five years, Rainer and Ines Quermann have made it to the top of the German grocery retailers. one asked the retailers and their wife about the secret of their success.

Strategy

toom.de: Best online shop

One click to paint, drill and raised bed

The first title came shortly after going live in 2020, and now toom.de has once again been named "Best Online Shop" in the DIY store sector in the Deutschland Test study. Toom.de scored particularly well with its video advice service.

Work & Life

Personnel in June

Who's coming, who's going

In the south, a top manager returns to REWE. PENNY has a new head of sales and there are also changes at Glockenbrot. Find out more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

German Brand Award

REWE Group website honoured twice

Following the relaunch of its corporate website, REWE Group wins twice over: In addition to 1st place in NetFederation's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Benchmark, the new homepage also impressed the jury of the German Brand Awards.

Work & Life

Works meeting

The big challenge in uncertain times

The works council meeting of RZO/REWE Systems under the motto "50 years of the works council" took place in Cologne's Tanzbrunnen and for the hybrid regions. The new works council, the representative body for severely disabled employees and the Divisional Directors were unanimous: sustainability goes hand in hand with further development.

Strategy

Interview: Jan-Oliver Heidrich

"We offer reliability"

Energy prices remain a key issue for retailers and consumers. We spoke to the managing director of EHA, Jan-Oliver Heidrich, about long-term purchasing strategies and short-term factors influencing the price of electricity.

People

PENNY

Employees support national ice hockey team

The 2022 Ice Hockey World Championship took place in Finland from 13 to 29 May. PENNY was there as a supporter of German ice hockey. Six employees were given the chance to cheer on their idols on site.

Work & Life

Birgit Kutzner-Schwartz

"Women should dare to do something"

She is the only woman in the men's group of Wilhelm Brandenburg plant managers. Here, Birgit Kutzner-Schwartz tells us how she was received and what she would advise other women in a similar situation.

People

Refugees in the southern region

Welcomed with open arms

After fleeing Ukraine, many refugees are faced with the question of what to do next. One of them is Sofiia Fomenko. The 21-year-old was the first Ukrainian to find work in Bamberg - with REWE saleswoman Annemarie Rudel.

Impetus for business

Coffee expert Maik Hengsbach

"Clean, appealing and well-rounded"

Why whole beans are the trend, REWE favours Fairtrade, Robusta is underestimated - and grimaces are an indicator of bad coffee: An interview with coffee expert Maik Hengsbach from REWE.

Annual General Meeting

FÜR SIE increases revenue and earnings

Despite the challenges posed by the Covid 19 pandemic, the FÜR SIE retail group achieved record figures in 2021.

Strategy

Distinction

PETA names REWE to go sushi the best vegan to-go dish

The vegan sushi Nanami from REWE to go wins the PETA Vegan Food Award 2022 in the category "Best vegan to-go dish". In addition to taste, clear vegan labelling and nationwide and time-based availability, PETA also evaluates the criterion of innovation. REWE to-go scored highly here as a pioneer for vegan sushi with a fish substitute topping in Germany.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Of people and pigs

"The Worst Person in the World" won the prize for Best Actress in a Leading Role at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Hollywood film producers have begun to doubt Nicolas Cage's "Massive Talent". Not only the action satire of the same name proves how wrong they are, but also a film truffle called "Pig".

Responsibility

Bee week at Nahkauf

Paradisiacal conditions

After the successful premiere last year, the Nahkauf stores continued their commitment to the little helpers these days and gave bees a blooming paradise.

Responsibility

REWE Group Dialogue Forum

"Form unconventional alliances"

Obesity, rents, traffic jams - Western man has many worries. Climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber explained at the REWE Group Dialogue Forum. Why all this could become irrelevant - now in the film.

Display

Now new for even more LEERDAMMER® enjoyment!

Germany's favourite cheese brand LEERDAMMER is bringing variety and even more enjoyment to German kitchens with its new product LEERDAMMER Auflauf-Genuss - whether cooking with the family or enjoying a convivial culinary evening with friends.

Work & Life

Job & family at PENNY

How employees use the services

In 2018, PENNY was the first discounter to be awarded the "job and family" certificate. Since then, a wide range of offers have been created, to which the HR department has once again drawn attention with a special campaign. Four employees also report on their experiences in one.

People

Jubilees in June

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in June.

Responsibility

Interview with Daniela Büchel

"Diversity management is a fundamental attitude"

Five years ago, REWE Group signed the Diversity Charter, a voluntary commitment to value and promote diversity within the company. Where do we stand today? one spoke to Head of Human Resources Daniela Büchel.

German Diversity Day

Call for participation in the "Diversity campaign"

In a major campaign, REWE Group is asking all employees what diversity means to them. Some colleagues have already answered this question. The film "Diversity at REWE Group" shows exactly how. Watch it now and take part.

Responsibility

Diversity: breaking down prejudices

Stone Age man in a desk chair

A new e-learning programme in Primus helps people to become aware of their own prejudices in the workplace and find a different way of dealing with them.

Strategy

Lekkerland at trade fair

More than just coffee to go

Every day, around 10 million customers across Germany stop at a petrol station. An enormous potential for which Lekkerland offers professional solutions and recently presented them at the petrol station trade fair.

Strategy

Purchase finalised

DER Travel and Tourism Group takes over Aldiana completely

Aldiana, the premium provider of club holidays, is wholly owned by DER Travel and Tourism Group: the takeover has now been successfully completed following antitrust approval. Markus R. Kempen and Max-Peter Droll will take over the business of the Aldiana Group from 1 June 2022.

Responsibility

Interview with Louisa Dellert

"Supermarkets also have an educational mission"

Entrepreneur, presenter, author - Louisa Dellert is all of these things. The Berlin native started out on social media nine years ago and is now one of the best-known sustainability influencers. In this interview, she explains how retailers could make sustainable consumption easier for customers, why she advocates dialogue between companies and consumers - and what has given her the impetus for a more sustainable lifestyle.

Strategy

REWE Group

Catering for 25,000 marathon runners

The Generali Cologne Marathon has been the running highlight of the cathedral city for years. After a three-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic, around 25,000 participants will return to the starting line on 2 October. REWE Group will be catering for the participants during the run and behind the finish line to ensure that everyone can keep going.

Strategy

Interview with Christoph Eltze

"You are part of IT that is going to be awesome"

REWE digital and REWE Systems are to work even more closely together in future. We spoke to the Divisional Director for Customer, Analytics & Technology, Christoph Eltze, about the importance of powerful IT for competition, transformation processes and working at eye level.

Responsibility

Piece to happiness

Inclusive playground opens in Hanover

The Haus der Jugend in Hanover now has a playground for all children and young people - with or without disabilities. The "Stück zum Glück" donation campaign, an initiative by Procter & Gamble, REWE and Aktion Mensch, has made this special place possible. Here, young people can play and romp around with equal rights and inclusivity.

Responsibility

Doing good and creating opportunities

(A) DOM for Michael

As part of a team building day, the REWE Group document management team built a wooden house for a homeless person together with the managing directors of "Little Home e.V.". The organisation is one of the four recipients of the REWE employee donation project.

Strategy

Portrait

Starting from scratch

Basel Alhasan came to Germany as a refugee. he started his apprenticeship at PENNY in 2018. Today, the 26-year-old is a store manager with a team of 13 employees. We spoke to him about what has encouraged him along the way.

Responsibility

REWE Dortmund

Helpers on four paws

They are lifesavers on four paws: Trained assistance dogs enable their owners to lead a largely normal everyday life - even though they often suffer from life-threatening illnesses.

Top topic

Interview with Marcel Weber

"A secure supply of goods has the highest priority"

Marcel Weber, head buyer for REWE store brands, reveals the challenges currently facing the supply of goods, why free riders are fuelling inflation and what REWE Group is doing to combat these and the bottlenecks in the supply chain.

Top topic

Interview with marketing directors

Own brands on the rise

For the first time in several years, the market share of private labels in the food retail sector has increased again. We spoke to the heads of marketing at REWE, PENNY and Toom about the importance of private labels.

Top topic

Interview with Clemens Bauer

Cheeky? ja!

With brand awareness of 92 per cent, ja! has a unique position in the world of private labels. To mark the brand's 40th birthday, we spoke to Clemens Bauer, Director Marketing & Media at REWE, about charming commercials, more colour on the packaging and customer expectations.

Top topic

Interview with Kerstin Bartsch

"Nobody wants us, but everyone needs us"

Preventing damage before it occurs: Product recalls are the daily business of REWE Group's risk managers. Kerstin Bartsch knows that this is a task that requires round-the-clock commitment and enormous team spirit, but is also extremely exciting.

Responsibility

IDAHOBIT 2022

Showing the flag for tolerance and diversity

It is a global symbol of tolerance and acceptance of the diversity of lifestyles: the rainbow flag. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), it was once again hoisted by employees in front of stores and Central locations throughout Germany. Join in and show in one how tolerant and diverse REWE Group is.

Work & Life

25. German Fruit Prize

REWE has the top addresses for fruit and vegetables

Bielefeld, Bonn, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg: these are the locations of the REWE stores with the best fruit and vegetable departments. The winning teams have now been honoured in Baden-Baden.

Work & Life

Personnel in May

Who's coming, who's going

Franziska Halstrick is moving back to the Rhine from Vienna. She succeeds Petra Meyer-Ochel in Domstrasse. Albena Georgieva is also changing countries: as Billa COO, she is taking on responsibility in Slovakia. You can read about this and more in this month's personnel news.

Responsibility

LGBTIQ

Wines for all those who love it colourful

Simona Maier, winemaker and member of the LGBTIQ community, is committed to diversity and transgender issues. With her wines One Love and Be Wild And Free, she is now setting an example for a more colourful life at REWE and PENNY and Weinfreunde.de, including on the wine shelf.

Top topic

Interview Charlotte Rosendahl

"We sometimes make ourselves unpopular, that's part of the job"

Is it really what it says on the tin? Is the quality of the private label convincing in the long term? What to do if customers are dissatisfied? These are questions that Charlotte Rosendahl and her team deal with on a daily basis. In an interview with one_Interview, the Head of Quality Management (QM) explains why she gets on the nerves of suppliers and sometimes even the purchasing department out of conviction, how to ensure that private labels remain glamorous and how a tasting app will help in the future.

Strategy

Diversity network

"Divers is more than just colourful"

Diversity makes teams more successful. Diversity is part of the REWE Group culture. And: diversity can be learnt. In an interview with one, Petra Meyer-Ochel explains how different personalities with different skills can work together fruitfully. She is part of the Diversity Network, which bundles and drives forward the numerous diversity measures at REWE Group. As a diverse team.

Impetus for business

Barbecue tips from the service manager

"Cheap was yesterday"

High-quality meat, unusual cuts and creative preparation ideas: Barbecue expert Christian Böhle from REWE Centre Esser on the trends for the grill.

Service

Service for employees

Save twice with two advantage platforms

Are you looking for a new car, would you like to take out pet insurance or would you prefer to shop for sportswear and stock up the spice rack? In addition to the already popular "Incent" portal, the works council now offers another online-based, extensive network of benefits for REWE Group employees: "corporate benefits".

Strategy

Local retailers working group

Good start, lots to do

Innovative, successful and very popular with customers: Nahkauf has made a good start to the year. The retailers and sales managers also have a lot planned for the coming months.

Responsibility

one_Logo

Two months of rainbows

If you were wondering why the one_logo has been appearing in rainbow colours since the beginning of May - the answer is simple: May is Diversity Month in Europe. This applies in particular to diversity in the world of work.

Responsibility

Ukraine transport

Artists and REWE help children

Neatly lined up, 20 tonnes of food and hygiene products were ready to be loaded onto two articulated lorries. The destination of the relief supplies: Ukraine. The transport was organised by "Saving an Angel", an aid organisation run by artists.

Service

REWE competition

Delivery service with Anthony Modeste

Anthony Modeste not only delivers as an FC goal scorer. The football star has now also lent a hand with the REWE delivery service and delivered his coffee in Cologne-Niehl.

Work & Life

"Supermarket of the year"

REWE clears

Hat-trick for red and white: REWE secured the coveted "Supermarket of the Year" industry award in three out of four categories, plus two "Employees of the Year". Two other store teams made it into the top three.

Work & Life

For school cone campaign

REWE wins e-mail marketing award

Second time participating, second time winning: REWE's school cone campaign has been honoured with gold in the e-mailing category of the e-mail award.

People

one_Podcast #8:

Karin Tresp and Andreas Thimm on IT security and data protection

Personal and corporate data require special protection - especially in large companies and particularly in uncertain, warlike times. This makes it all the more important to raise awareness of the dangers of hacker attacks. This is precisely the aim of the joint data protection and Information Security awareness campaign. In the one_Podcast, those responsible, Karin Tresp and Andreas Thimm, explain what they are planning with the campaign.

People

one_Podcast #9

Andreas Brensing and the best summer wines

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 9, we talk to Andreas Brensing, managing director of Kölner Weinkeller, about summer wines - listen in now!

+++ Display +++

"Simply make shelves better!"

As we continue to develop new products, we are certain that the future belongs to shelf-ready systems.

Fulfilment tools

The best way to reach customers

With fulfilmenttools, the REWE Group has a tech subsidiary that ensures that the goods are delivered from the warehouse to the customer once they have been ordered online. A task that only seems simple at first glance. In the background, this means providing various delivery options for the customer and finding the optimal route for the goods for the retailer.

Strategy

New partnership

Paymenttools expands into Douglas stores

In over 330 Douglas stores across Germany, all card transactions at the stationary checkout will be processed using payment tools from June onwards

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Resistance in East and West

Andreas Dresen and Leander Haußmann are the two names that immediately spring to mind when it comes to film directors from the former GDR. In "Rabiye Kurnaz vs George W. Bush", Dresen focusses on the Bremen mother's fight to free her son from Guantanamo. Haußmann revives the East Berlin art scene. Those who need some serious exoticism afterwards are advised to watch the New Zealand gold-digger thriller "The Luminaries" in six parts.

Responsibility

HDE award

REWE Green Farming is "Store of the Year 2022"

The REWE Green Farming pilot store in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim has won the competition for the most innovative and exciting retail property in Germany in the food category. The impressive building received the prestigious "Store of the Year 2022" award from the German Retail Association (HDE) at the German Retail Property Congress.

People

The jubilarians in May

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in May.

People

one_Feature: Schäfer family

The willingness to help gave courage

It was a year ago in July that the tidal wave devastated large parts of the Ahr valley. The house of Beatrix Schäfer-Hoffmann, an employee at REWE Schäfer in Bad Neuenahr, was located in the small town of Dernau. It was swept away by the flood. one visited her and her husband Wolfgang Hoffmann in their temporary home.

Working together for climate protection

REWE supports NABU climate fund to save the moors

Peatlands are the most effective carbon stores on land - but only when they are wet. NABU wants to save moors as natural CO₂ reservoirs with a new climate fund. How this is to be achieved - and why long-term partner REWE is supporting it with at least 25 million euros.

Strategy

Digital business models

"We are operating in a strong growth market"

In the second part of the series, we spoke to Paymenttools Managing Director Jens Kohnen about the advantages of having your own payment service provider.

Strategy

Travel and Tourism

"2022 will also be a year of new beginnings"

Pandemic, war in Ukraine, rising prices: Who thinks about holidays? A lot of people are, especially in these difficult times, observes Sören Hartmann, CEO of DER Travel and Tourism Group. We asked him about current developments at DER Travel and Tourism Group. And about his personal plans after leaving the REWE Group Management Board.

Responsibility

Significantly fewer donations

REWE supports food banks with 500,000 euros

The food banks in Germany are helping more and more people, while at the same time food donations are declining. REWE is therefore donating gift cards worth half a million euros to the dedicated helpers.

Service

Festival fans take note

PENNY is giving away 4 x 2 tickets for the Parookaville Festival 2022

The Parookaville Festival is back and so is sponsor PENNY. one_readers can win exclusive tickets for the electronic dance festival.

New website "Torhunger.de"

Thomas Müller, his brother and a sheep

More modern, more magazine-like, with a mixture of information and entertainment: this is how the freshly relaunched website "Torhunger.de" goes online. The content also remains exciting.

Strategy

New Chief Digital Officer

DER Travel and Tourism Group hires Joao Gonzaga

Joao Gonzaga has been appointed Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of DER Travel and Tourism Group with effect from 16 May 2022. As CDO, Joao Gonzaga will be responsible for the digitalisation of the European travel group, which currently operates in 16 countries, across all countries.

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #7: Silke Tiedje on help on the way to your dream job

Where does talent lie dormant in the REWE Group? What tools can be given to them and their superiors to promote their development? These are exciting questions that Silke Tiedje and her colleagues deal with on a daily basis. In the one_Podcast, she tells us which measures are currently the most important.

Responsibility

FC special jersey

REWE supports FC's "Live sustainably" campaign

FC Köln and its partner REWE took to the field against Arminia Bielefeld on match day 31 of the 2021/22 Bundesliga season (23 April) in a special jersey with a focus on Sustainability. Instead of the REWE logo, the FC professionals wore the words "Lebe nachhaltig" ("Live sustainably") from the FC campaign of the same name on their chest.

Strategy

Digital business models

Three digital tech subsidiaries

Commercetools, paymenttools and fulfilmenttools cover online shopping. We present one company every week. We start with commercetools.

Responsibility

LED technology

Save energy quickly and easily

Sales-promoting staging with low power consumption: two professionals explain why converting to LED lighting is worthwhile in and on the market.

Strategy

REWE: Vouchers for clubs 3.0

For an even greater sense of unity (not just in sport)

After a break last year, the success story is set to continue: With a few optimisations, "Scheine für Vereine" is now entering its third round.

Strategy

Toom NH magazine with GEO

Read and get started sustainably

Just in time for Easter, Toom is launching its first sustainability magazine in cooperation with GEO in stores and online. Wibke Papenbroock and Julia Brehm from Toom's Brand Communications department are the first fans. They explain what makes the magazine special - and what it is intended to achieve.

Strategy

Fiscal year 2021

REWE Group Austria on course for sustained growth

Following the strong exceptional year 2020, REWE Group in Austria with Billa, PENNY, Bipa, Adeg and REWE Austria Travel and Tourism continued to grow sustainably in 2021. Total gross turnover increased by 1.54 per cent to 9.21 billion euros.

Work & Life

Personnel in April

Who's coming, who's going

At Wilhelm Brandenburg and in the PENNY South region, the sales department is under new management. Generational changes are imminent in two Central Units. Read about this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

REWE Group and DHL

Off you go

Shopping and quickly sending or picking up a parcel or letter - it's easy at several thousand REWE, PENNY, Nahkauf or Toom stores. Since the beginning of April, REWE Group and Deutsche Post DHL Group have been providing their customers throughout Germany with 3,500 joint customer contact points for parcel services.

Joint project with REWE

ZooRoyal opens pet speciality store

The specialist pet retailer is launching a concept test in Norderstedt on around 1,800 square metres. The original highlight: a dog washing station with seven washing cycles including a hair dryer.

Strategy

Ice hockey sponsorship

PENNY co-operates with the band Münchner Freiheit

PENNY presents the "Unsong Hero Award" to all ice hockey fans and thanks them for their support with the newly recorded 80s cult hit "Ohne dich". PENNY is giving away up to 600 tickets for the playoffs.

Entertainment

The one_Easter competition 2022

Easter competition: these are the winners

We congratulate all the winners of our one_Easter competition and wish all our readers a happy Easter.

Strategy

Autonomous shops from REWE To Go

"Interest has never been so great"

In the one_Interview, Lekkerland managers Mehmet Tözge and Michael Mayer-Sonnenburg explain why consumers today like to shop at cashierless stores when they are out and about and present four solutions that are currently being developed and tested under the REWE To Go brand.

Advertorial

Secure your earned income, protect your livelihood. Now it's easy!

To facilitate access to the important occupational disability insurance, RVD and its co-operation partner, Gothaer Lebensversicherung AG, have agreed a shortened acceptance process with a simplified health check* for a period of twelve months.

Responsibility

PENNY competition

Running for a good cause

PENNY is supporting this year's "Wings for Life World Run" and is giving away 100 vouchers worth 20 euros each for virtual participation among all employees.

Strategy

Fiscal year 2021

REWE Group continues to grow by around two billion euros

REWE Group successfully closed the 2021 financial year with strong sales growth of around two billion euros, once again demonstrating its strong performance under the challenging conditions of the coronavirus pandemic. External revenue from continuing operations increased by 2.5 per cent from 74.6 billion to 76.5 billion euros.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Romance in black and white

Less colour, more content - that's the effect of black and white on the big screen. The American comedy "Come on Come on" and the French neo-romance "Where the Sun Rises in Paris" are two fine examples of this in German cinemas. By contrast, the Ukrainian political series "Servants of the People" is quite colourful and turbulent. Comedian and lead actor Volodymyr Selensky laid the foundations for his future presidency in 2015.

Work & Life

Meat stars and talents 2022

Great talents and silent stars

Outstanding counters and strong young talent: the industry competition "Meat Stars" offered plenty of excitement, the race was close.

Strategy

Nahkauf opens walk-in store

Non-stop pit stop in Upper Franconia

Groceries and more at almost any time of day or night - that's what "Josefs Nahkauf Box" offers. Retailers Josef Sier and Thomas Scheuring opened the first "Walk-In-Nahkauf" in Pettstadt.

Responsibility

Toom reduces plastic waste

Reusable solutions for plant transport

Following a successful pilot phase in 2021, Toom is the first and only German Baumarkt DIY store to switch to environmentally friendly reusable pallets for plants.

Strategy

Online sustainability report

REWE Group receives IÖW award

REWE Group is one of the large German companies that informs the public most transparently about its social and ecological activities. This is once again confirmed by an analysis of current sustainability reports from the 100 largest German companies.

Strategy

Premium brand for club holidays

DER Travel and Tourism becomes sole owner of the Aldiana Group

DER Travel and Tourism Group, which currently holds 50 per cent of the Aldiana Group, is further expanding its involvement by acquiring the shares of Aldiana's co-owner, the Swiss investment company LMEY.

Business Award

Employee magazine "one" wins another award

REWE Group's employee magazine "one" is honoured with the German Stevie® Award 2022 in silver. And the competition continues: Vote for one in the People's Choice Stevie Awards now!

Work & Life

REWE Group celebrates anniversaries

"We know the shortcut"

working for one and the same company for 25 or even 40 years is hardly the norm in times of project-based work. Over 150 REWE Group employees cracked precisely these marks last year. And as it turns out, very few of them have worked in the same job throughout their careers.

Study Retail Management

"Completely new approaches for day-to-day business"

REWE salesman Tristan Klein is certain: the part-time retail management master's programme in cooperation with ESB Reutlingen is contributing to his success. In one, Tristan Klein explains what he gets out of his degree programme and how he manages to juggle his job, studies and family.

Responsibility

Cooperation with Lufthansa

A CO2-neutral holiday

Dertour and REWE Reisen are the first tour operators in Germany to offer their guests the opportunity to fly CO2-neutral on holiday with Lufthansa. In cooperation with the airline, DER Travel and Tourism is making it possible to offset the CO2 emissions of flights through a combination of sustainable fuel and investments in climate protection projects

Entertainment

Exclusive offer

Free admission to the Museum Ludwig

As part of the partnership between Museum Ludwig and REWE Group, there is an exclusive offer for REWE Group employees: all interested employees and family members (one accompanying adult, up to 4 children under the age of 18) will receive free admission to Museum Ludwig on the weekend of 23/24 April 2022. A visit to the special exhibition Isamu Noguchi is of course also possible.

Work & Life

Podcast Working Worlds

"One focus is on men working part-time"

Whether job sharing or sabbaticals, company daycare centres, diverse working models or health-related and psychosocial offers: REWE Group supports its employees in balancing their professional and private lives with a wide range of measures. The company is regularly certified for this by the renowned job and family audit. The Central locations in Cologne have now been recertified for the fourth time in a row. A good opportunity to talk to the colleagues responsible for this, Michelle Frieling, Nathalie Küpper and Katrin Sievers, about the measures planned for the coming years.

Work & Life

Hybrid working

"Leadership is above all communication"

Hybrid forms of work place new demands on senior managers. Dr Josephine Hofmann, Deputy Head of the Business Development and Work Design segment at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart, explains which skills are important now and which mistakes should be avoided.

People

Anniversaries in April

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate those celebrating anniversaries in April

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #6: Pierre de la Motte on dealing with the ongoing crisis

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them and what their current topics are. In episode 6, we talk to Pierre de la Motte, Head of Internal Communications and coach for positive psychology, about how to deal with the ongoing crisis in a healthy way. Listen in now!

Strategy

REWE Group

Employees collect and donate for Ukraine

REWE Group has now donated almost a thousand tonnes of food and hygiene products for people in need in Ukraine. Over a thousand pallets of relief supplies have been collected.

Responsibility

"Ja! Natürlich!"

Organic vegetables from a climate-friendly greenhouse

The season for organic tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from Austria is being extended. This is made possible by a new greenhouse that uses geothermal energy for CO2-neutral heating.

Strategy

Independent Retail Europe

Thomas Nonn confirmed as President

The General Assembly of the European trade association Independent Retail Europe has elected REWE Group Divisional Director Thomas Nonn as President for a further three years.

Work & Life

Recreational football tournament

Players wanted for Come-Together-Cup

REWE Group is once again looking for recreational footballers who would like to take part in the "REWE Group di.to.-Kickers" teams at the Come-Together Cup on 26 May 2022 on the pitches of the RheinEnergie Stadium in Cologne.

Responsibility

Broiler chicken initiative

REWE Group and Albert Schweitzer Foundation: establishing higher minimum standards

REWE Group and the Albert Schweitzer Stiftung für unsere Mitwelt have concluded several months of intensive negotiations on the European Broiler Chicken Initiative. A large number of common goals were identified.

Strategy

Support for miners

REWE becomes training kit partner of FC Schalke 04

Schalke 04 is pleased to announce further support: REWE's corporate logo will be visible on the Royal Blues' training and warm-up clothing from now until the end of the 2021/22 season.

Strategy

Further improving synergies

REWE Group expands Management Board

Against the backdrop of strong economic growth in recent years and the development and integration of new business segments, which have led to REWE Group's total revenue of over 75 billion euros (2020 financial year) and a workforce of over 380,000 employees, the Cologne-based trading and tourism group is expanding its Group Management Board.

Strategy

Customers test products

Say ja! to the cream pudding!

Since the beginning of 2019, 300,000 REWE customers have tested around 100 products. The test platform has now moved. Annika Huhn from the Customer Insights & Media team explains who can test and how it works.

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #5: Dirk Kühn on hybrid working and leadership

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 5, we talk to Dirk Kühn, Head of Business Administration, about hybrid working. Listen in now!

Industry

Animal welfare initiative

Cattle fatteners can now also participate

After chicken and pigs, now also cows and calves: from mid-March, farmers can register for the Initiative Tierwohl (ITW) for cattle.

Top topic

Katrin Feiertag/Kathrin Bräuer

It's up to the (buying) woman

One from the deep West, the other from East Germany, one the scion of a merchant's family, the other a latecomer. But the two REWE shop assistants Katrin Feiertag and Kathrin Bräuer have much more in common than their first names.

Strategy

Employer branding campaign

"As multifaceted as the company"

More colourful, bolder, more contemporary: REWE Group is breaking new ground in employer marketing with its current employer branding campaign. The focus is on employees - and a common thread.

Responsibility

REWE donation campaign

422.000 euros for sustainability commitment to tropical fruit

REWE is committed to the continuous improvement of labour and environmental conditions in the countries where tropical fruits are grown and is thus securing the future of its commitment to sustainability in the banana and pineapple sector with a grant of 422,000 euros.

Top topic

Ilse Holzer, CFO Czech Republic

"Women only have one inhibitor"

Talent isn't everything: REWE Group top manager Ilse Holzer explains why unpretentiousness also helps women get ahead professionally - and why it's dangerous to want to please too much.

Top topic

Regional Manager Tina Mangold

"We cannot afford to give away this potential"

Tina Mangold has headed the PENNY Region South since June 2021. As the first Chairwoman of the REWE Group's management, she has set herself the goal of promoting the further development of managers and increasing the proportion of female senior managers in the PENNY Region South.

Top topic

Women in the REWE Group

Professional driver, store manager, boss

Well educated and yet less well paid and still in the minority in top positions - in many cases still the status quo in Germany. At REWE Group, women can be found in management positions as well as in "typical" male jobs. We spoke to some of them.

Top topic

Operations Manager Verena Hammer

"I'm not the typical boss"

Logistics is an area that is still heavily dominated by men. Verena Hammer has had a stellar career in this male-dominated field: Since 2013, the trained retail clerk has held leading positions at the PENNY Norderstedt warehouse. To date, she is the only female operations manager within the REWE Group.

Work & Life

Personnel in March

Who's coming, who's going

Randi Baum coordinates all projects in the retailers division. Sebastian Engels heads up property asset management, and there is a change in sustainability management at DER Travel and Tourism. Read this and more in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

PENNY

Las Vegas atmosphere in Wedding

20 couples said "I do" on 22 February 2022. Not at the registry office or church, however, but at the PENNY store in Berlin-Wedding, for 22.22 euros. An Elvis impersonator gave the wedding speech in proper style. Afterwards, a gift basket awaited those who were getting married. One lucky couple even won a trip to Las Vegas.

Strategy

EHA

Electricity procurement in uncertain times

The energy industry is in a state of emergency: historically high electricity prices, contracts are being cancelled and new customers are only being offered energy at very high prices. one explains what EHA's procurement strategy looks like and why it is now paying off.

Work & Life

REWE Group

one wins Mercury Award

The employee magazine one was honoured with a silver Mercury Award in the "Employee Publications Internal" category. The Mercury Award has been presented to companies from over 80 countries for more than 35 years.

Nutrition & Health

Organic still in vogue?

More must be possible

Customers are spending more and more money on organic products. And more and more farms are deciding to produce in a sustainable way. However, these steps are not enough to achieve the target of 30 per cent organic farms by 2030. The industry association is now calling on politicians to take action.

People

Jubilees in March

Congratulations!

The employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in March.

Responsibility

PENNY and Berchtesgadener Land

Climate protection programme "Zukunftsbauer" to be expanded

PENNY and the Berchtesgadener Land dairy successfully launched the "Future Builders" climate protection support programme in October last year. Now the two partners are massively expanding the financial basis of the project.

Responsibility

DER Travel and Tourism Foundation

Sustainable tourism for people and animals

At the end of last year, Sören Hartmann, CEO of DER Travel and Tourism Group, travelled to Tanzania to see for himself the current project successes of the DER Travel and Tourism Foundation - and the special challenges during the pandemic. See and hear his impressions here, and find out more about the projects and plans.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Looking back at the cinema

Two great directors use the big screen to take a very personal look back into the past. Kenneth Branagh resurrects his by no means idyllic childhood in "Belfast" in nostalgic black and white. And in "Parallel Mothers", Pedro Almodóvar celebrates the feminism of today while denouncing Franco's fascism of the past.

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #4: Jörg Bürger gives tips for gardening

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 4, we talk to Jörg Bürger, Category Manager Plants at Toom. Listen in now

Strategy

New COO PENNY Germany

Stefan Magel leaves the company at his own request

Stefan Magel is ending his professional career at REWE Group and is leaving the company at his own request as Divisional Director/COO Penny Germany. His successor will be Dr Stefan Görgens, who was previously Managing Director Sales Department for PENNY Germany.

Strategy

Contract extension

REWE and Handball-Bundesliga GmbH remain partners

REWE and Handball-Bundesliga GmbH have extended their partnership for another three years - until 2024. The REWE Final4 for the DHB Cup continues to take centre stage. The premium German handball event has been closely linked to REWE since 2015 through the naming rights.

Strategy

Video counselling at Toom

"Please keep it up!"

Corona is sometimes the mother of invention. At Toom, two colleagues have driven forward the topic of "video advice" - a novelty in the German DIY store industry. The aim: to spontaneously connect customers with the stores virtually. This has met with great enthusiasm.

Responsibility

Flood helper Jörg Schäfer

Help, hope and many opportunities

The extent of the disaster on the Ahr is still staggering. In Jörg Schäfer's store in Bad Neuenahr, too, the brown sludge was up to half a metre high in the shop and caused considerable material damage.

Strategy

Retail International

REWE Group invests billions in international business

REWE Group intends to significantly expand and invest in its Retail International division. The aim is to increase gross turnover to more than 20 billion by 2025 through organic growth and to increase the number of stores to around 5,000, according to Deputy CEO Jan Kunath.

Work & Life

PENNY

Trainees run markets

Over 100 trainees took the opportunity to manage five PENNY stores on their own for a fortnight. Five of them report on their experiences.

Work & Life

"Talk to the Management"

For a stronger sense of unity

Have you always wanted to tell your boss what's on your mind? This is possible in the Business Administration holding area.

Strategy

Toom Baumarkt DIY store

Martin Czoske new CFO

Change in the management of Toom Baumarkt DIY store: CFO Niko Johns (left) has asked to terminate his contract for personal reasons. He will be succeeded by Martin Czoske, previously Head of Holding Management, M&A and Controlling at REWE Group.

Industry

BrandEx Award 2022

REWE centre circle event series awarded silver

With the centre circle events, REWE already offers supporters of 1. FC Köln a unique "money can't buy" experience. REWE was honoured with the silver BrandEx Award in the "Best Formats Event" category at the International Festival of Brand Experience for this series of events.

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #3: Andrea Kern gives tips on self-management

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 3, we talk to Andrea Kern from the Learning Centre about time management. Listen in now!

Impetus for business

REWE and PENNY

Let it rain fair roses for you..

Every third rose sold in Germany now bears the Fairtrade seal. REWE and PENNY also use fairly traded roses in their flower ranges.

Strategy

PENNY

Wedding in Wedding

22 couples can symbolically say "I do" at the PENNY store in Berlin-Wedding on 22 February 2022. Marriage candidates can apply until 15 February. A trip to Las Vegas will be raffled off among all couples.

Service

Raffle

These are the winners of the tickets for the Museum Ludwig

To mark the extension of the sponsorship partnership with the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, employees had the chance to win 15 x 2 admission tickets. The winners have now been announced.

Strategy

Growth potential

"When I think of vegan, I think of REWE"

REWE is a pioneer when it comes to vegan and vegetarian products. Project manager Alexander Rußler explains the strategy for further expanding the product range in 2022.

Work & Life

REWE Group Star

Starting signal for young talent competition

Kick-off for REWE Group Star 2022, the voluntary sustainability competition for REWE Group trainees and junior employees: the aim is to work as a team to develop a project that has a positive impact on people, animals or the environment.

Responsibility

Cooperation with NABU

Collecting mobile phones for bumblebees and bees

Toom collects mobile phones in its stores for the NABU campaign "Old mobile phones for bumblebees, bees and co." and thus supports NABU's insect projects. There is also currently an information campaign about improved packaging.

Responsibility

Black Mambas

"Keep an eye on every centimetre"

During the pandemic, the all-female ranger team of the Black Mambas played a doubly important role: they protected the rhinos from poachers and, as the main breadwinners, secured the livelihoods of their families. A representative of the organisation reports.

Strategy

Youtube

PENNY among the top three brands

PENNY was one of the three most successful advertising companies on YouTube last year.

Work & Life

Personnel in February

Who's coming, who's going

In the Merchandise division, the responsibilities of some buyers change. Annette Limmer and Oliver Honisch are appointed to the managing directors of ZooRoyal Petcare GmbH and Lara-Christina Sell takes over as head of the non-merchandise task force.

Strategy

ZooRoyal

Among the top three in email marketing

Email marketing is a discipline in itself. After all, customers need meaningful added value to open a newsletter. In a recent study, experts analysed the email marketing of 5000 companies in detail. ZooRoyal came in third place.

Strategy

Involvement in e-sports intensified

REWE acquires stake in SK Gaming

REWE acquires a stake in SK Gaming, one of the world's best-known brands in e-sports. The food retailer is thus expanding its involvement in e-sports and gaming in Germany.

Strategy

Information Security

"123456" is not a secure password

The first of February was "Change your password day". And even if it doesn't necessarily make sense to constantly change all the countless passwords, the list of the most popular passwords in 2021 casts a little doubt on internet users' ability to learn.

Strategy

Interview with Stefan Matzelle

"An open, appreciative corporate culture"

Stefan Matzelle has been responsible for IT, including stationary retail, logistics and governance, for around a year. We spoke to him about the challenges in bricks-and-mortar retail, the cooperation between REWE Systems and the specialist departments and his plans for 2022.

Strategy

Trade

Food chains campaign for the end of the 2G rule in retail

In a letter to several top politicians, the four major food retailers have called for the abolition of the 2G rule in the retail sector. This is particularly remarkable because they themselves are not affected by the 2G rule.

Strategy

450. Market opened in Meudt

"I feel I'm in good hands at Nahkauf!"

Cicek Kaya recently opened her first Nahkauf store in the small town of Meudt in the Westerwald. It is the 450th in Germany, and she reveals here why she deliberately chose REWE's Nahkauf brand.

Top topic

Survey among colleagues

Gratitude and digital detox

Whether it's a long hike or a little daily meditation, a more sustainable approach to media consumption or an entire study programme on Sustainability: what colleagues are doing for their physical and mental well-being in 2022.

Top topic

Good intentions

"An unachieved goal is not the end"

Good reasons, realistic interim goals and selfies on the fridge: Fabian Laukamp from Gemeinsam.topfit explains how to implement and keep your resolutions for a healthier life - and why failure can also have positive sides.

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Everything is different

Films or series deviate from tried and tested stories with familiar clichés less often than you might think. If it does happen, you are most likely dealing with a masterpiece. You can find evidence of this in "Licorice Pizza" and "Petite Maman". The satirical series "The Good Place" turns nothing less than heaven and hell upside down in 13 episodes.

People

Podcast with Bianca van Wijnen

Focal points in occupational health management

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. In episode 2, we talk to Bianca van Wijnen about the topic of occupational health management.

Responsibility

PENNY

Naturgut organic heroes on the road to success

Fruit and vegetables with visual defects are in high demand and are recording a double-digit jump in sales. The range is therefore being expanded.

Strategy

Market research

PENNY is one of the most popular employers

The 650 most popular employers in Germany were sought in a major survey. PENNY ranks among the top 10 in the retail sector and leaves the competition far behind.

People

Jubilees in February

Congratulations!

The employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate the employees celebrating their anniversaries in February.

Responsibility

REWE and nahkauf

Support social projects in growing countries by buying fruit

The whole of Germany loves fruit varieties such as bananas and pineapples. The fruit is imported from countries where the economic conditions are comparatively difficult. This also creates responsibility for the retailers.

Work & Life

REWE Group Top Employer 2022

"Excellent employee practices"

The Top Employers Institute has announced the Top Employers 2022: REWE Group has once again been certified for its exceptional employee orientation - for the eighth time in a row.

Responsibility

Flood helper Timo Feld

It was like a tsunami

Dramatic scenes are still unfolding in the flood disaster area on the Ahr. Timo Feld is tackling the emergency with all his energy. In one, the colleague from REWE Systems reports on how the mission has changed his life.

Strategy

Cybersecurity

Virtual theft of money

Why rob a bank when you can simply steal money over the internet? That's what more and more criminals are thinking, especially as they can simply buy the virtual robbery as a "service" via the darknet. Companies around the world are alarmed.

Responsibility

Cologne aid organisations

Great joy at the belated gift

The representatives of four Cologne aid organisations recently enjoyed a belated Christmas present.

Strategy

New REWE campaign

Good things start with me

REWE's new umbrella brand campaign is all about more sustainable shopping. The core message: every single purchase of REWE organic products has a major impact on animal welfare, environmental and climate protection.

Strategy

Corporate Communications

Ines Schurin succeeds Martin Brüning

After more than 13 years as Head of REWE Group Corporate Communications, Martin Brüning is leaving the company on 30 June 2022 at his own request and on the best of terms. His successor will be Ines Schurin.

Service

Packaging Act

Can deposit 2.0

For 19 years, we have been paying the "deposit on cans" on beer, soft drinks and water in cans or plastic bottles, among other things. At the beginning of the year, the list of products subject to deposit was expanded - and made easier for consumers to understand.

People

The REWE Group podcast

one_Podcast #1 with Erich Stockhausen

In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every fortnight what moves them, what their current topics are or what they particularly like about their job. Erich Stockhausen, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, kicks things off this year. Listen in now!

Work & Life

Personnel in January

Who's coming, who's going

Two long-serving colleagues, Michael Lubahn and Toni Kiel, are retiring. REWE businessman Lutz Michalik is also taking his leave. He is stepping down from his position as management of retailers in the South West region. You can read about the successors to these positions and many other changes in this month's personnel news.

Strategy

REWE International AG

Executive Board team extended until the end of 2025

The Supervisory Board has extended the contracts of Marcel Haraszti, Michael Jäger and Christoph Matschke early until the end of 2025, thus expressing its confidence in the successful REWE International AG Management Board team. The team will be completed by Espen B. Larsen, who joined at the beginning of 2021 with responsibility for the full-range business in Eastern Europe.

Strategy

PENNY's climate campaign

"Sustainability is a kind of ultra-marathon"

Climate neutrality is playing an increasingly important role in connection with nutrition. In the one_Interview, Stefan Magel, Divisional Director Retail Germany and COO PENNY, explains why PENNY wants to position itself as a green discounter on the occasion of the launch of the Climate Campaign 2022.

Strategy

Online Annual Report 2020

Fox Finance Awards for REWE Group

The REWE Group Online Annual Report 2020 entitled "Turbulent times. Decisive action." impressed twice at the internationally renowned Fox Awards: the report received a Fox Finance Award 2021 in silver and a Fox Finance Visuals 2021 in gold.

Responsibility

REWE Group

New guideline for juices published

REWE Group has published its first overarching guideline for all own-brand juices, nectars and fruit juice drinks.

Strategy

A new market is emerging

REWE at Rudolfplatz

Rudolfplatz in the heart of Cologne is undergoing major construction. Chic new buildings with office space and shops are being built. Right in the centre: REWE West with a store in a prime location. one accompanies the store until its opening. In part 4, we talk to Udo Ohmen about the product range.

People

Jubilees in January

Congratulations!

Our employees are the heart of REWE Group. We congratulate those celebrating in January 2022.

Strategy

REWE Group: Fourth head warehouse

A noticeable increase in quality

REWE Group Fruchtlogistik opened its fourth and final head warehouse at the Wiesloch site at the end of November. At 30,500 square metres, the fruit and vegetable transhipment point in the south-west is the largest and marks the provisional conclusion of a mammoth project.

Nutrition & Health

Veganuary

Falafel instead of fillet

What do singer Billie Eilish and actor Leonardo di Caprio have in common? They eat a vegan diet. The purely plant-based diet is popular among celebrities, which is why many support the "Veganuary". But what is the challenge actually about?

Entertainment

Films & Co. of the month

Lots of organic and a little psycho

True stories and a psychiatrist: writer and director Aaron Sorkin takes a look behind the scenes of the sitcom "I Love Lucy" in "Being the Ricardos" with Nicole Kidman as TV icon Lucille Ball. Kristen Stewart as "Lady Di" shows her egg dance at Christmas 1991, and if you need a real shrink for all the true stories, get help from "The Therapist Next Door" on Apple TV.

Strategy

Coffee from the 1. FC Köln star

Bull's eye for Anthony Modeste

The year 2021 ended with a special highlight for footballer Anthony Modeste. The FC star now not only "roasts" the opposing football teams, but also high-quality coffee beans.