The Annual General Meeting of REWE ZENTRALFINANZ eG approved the 2024 annual financial statements on Saturday, 14 June 2025: another very good year for the cooperative REWE Group. On this occasion, the long-standing Chairman of the Supervisory Board Erich Stockhausen handed over his mandate to his successor Stefan Lenk. With the approval of the annual financial statements, we also published our online annual report for 2024 under the title "Clear Course - Strong Future".
After ten years as Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Erich Stockhausen hands over a healthy REWE Group to his colleague and close companion Stefan Lenk. "The work has grown incredibly close to my heart. I have done this for REWE for many, many years, for the retailers, for the employees and for the employee representatives. My credo has always been to develop REWE in such a way that the next generation also has a good basis for further development. As everything is in good hands, I also have a smile on my face. We are well positioned, we are making good progress," says Stockhausen.
His successor Stefan Lenk (63) opened his first REWE store in 1983. Today, together with his wife Claudia and their three sons, he runs the family business with nine stores, a total turnover of more than 100 million euros and over 500 employees. His parents founded the company in 1963 in Bochum on 40 square metres. Lenk has held a seat on the Supervisory Board of REWE Dortmund since 2014 and has been its Chairman since 2016. He has also been a member of the Supervisory Board of REWE Group since 2016 and Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2018. "A big thank you to Erich Stockhausen for his dedicated, courageous and forward-looking work as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. I have been able to work closely with him over the past eight years and I am convinced that the path he has taken is still the right one," said the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Stefan Lenk. "As a strong community with the proven Management Board team and the employees of REWE Group, we will continue to successfully drive the company forward in the future."
Helmut Göttmann, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, long-standing Chairman of the General Works Council of REWE and PENNY and active on the Group's supervisory bodies since 2016, was also bid farewell at the Annual General Meeting. He was succeeded as Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of REWE-ZENTRALFINANZ eG by Franziska Blumenthal, the current Chairwoman of the General Works Council.
Our CEO Lionel Souque emphasised the pleasing annual report in difficult times: "The 2024 financial year was anything but a sure-fire success in view of the uncertain conditions across the EU, subdued consumer sentiment and the negative economic trend. It is therefore not a matter of course that we can still say that 2024 was a very good year for us. This success is thanks to the dedicated work of all our colleagues, as all business segments contributed to the positive development."
we invested 16 billion euros between 2024 and 2028 and are therefore looking strongly to the future: "While other sectors of the economy are cutting back on investments or even giving up locations, we are strengthening Germany and Europe as business locations with our investments, which are also very high compared to the rest of the industry. We promote national value creation and remain a strong, reliable economic driver even in difficult times," says Lionel Souque.
The 2024 Annual Report entitled "A clear course - a strong future" is available atwww.rewe-group.com/de/geschaeftsbericht-rewe-group-2024.
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