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METRO Group Asset Management is responsible for all the property related activities of METRO GROUP and their retail brands. With more than 700 retailing locations in 33 countries METRO GROUP’s worldwide owned property is the most international wholesale and retail property portfolio in the world. 

For a retail enterprise, expert property management is a significant factor for success. METRO Group Asset Management looks after the real estate activities of the METRO GROUP and its sales divisions of Metro Cash & Carry, Real, Media Markt, Saturn and Galeria Kaufhof.

METRO Group Asset Management is responsible for the active management of the property portfolio in 32 countries in Europe and Asia as well as for the development and construction of retail properties and management of 70 center locations in Germany, Poland and Turkey. A broad range of facility services is provided for about 1,700 commercial, administration and storage locations. The real estate segment achieved an EBIT of 551 million Euro in 2009.

The real estate company of the retailing company has a future-oriented concept: the active and value increasing portfolio management of the properties, visionary development, construction and management of shopping centers as well as tailor-made facility services and competent energy management. Economic efficiency and ecological sustainability are not a contradiction in terms for METRO Group Asset Management.
A notable feature of the company is its interlacing of great realty expertise and specific retail know-how.

The main task is to ensure the sustainable commercial success of the managed objects, to increase their value and to undertake scheduled investments and exploitation as part of an active portfolio management. METRO Group Asset Management also carries out the construction, management, operation, maintenance and modernisation of properties as part of its service management. The service range includes the profit centers: Real Estate Management, Center International, Facility Services as well as Energy and Resource Management. The internationally active company is thus able to provide the retail trade with long-term attractive space for showcasing themselves and their goods.

Economic efficiency and ecological sustainability

Economic efficiency and ecological sustainability are not a contradiction in terms for METRO Group Asset Management. To this end, METRO Group Asset Management sets international standards for future-orientated retail properties.

The long-term maintenance of value and optimized management of a property depend more than ever on the right energy management. At an increasing number of locations, therefore, the company makes use of energy-saving building control systems, heating and ventilation systems. Renewable energies like geothermal energy, solar chilling, photovoltaic and wind energy are being tested and used successfully.
METRO Group Asset Management received, amongst others, the ICSC Award for Resource, the ULI Europe Award for Excellence and the Business Award for the Environment from the European Commission for its ideas on sustainable construction, use of renewable energies and its groundbreaking energy management.