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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 Metro: quietly quietly making money Compared to the same part of the world’s top three retailers Wal-Mart and Carrefour, Metro (METRO) in the well-known among the Chinese people can not be said there is a gap. Do not say that Metro is not stationed in a city that many people never heard of the public Metro is Metro city opened for many years, going a little bit further, there are many among the residents who do not know the existence of Metro, not to talk about Metro is the world’s retail giants, one of the three. However, these are not a bar to Metro in China, quietly and with rapid growth, quietly and quickly to make money. As the world’s third-largest German retail giant METRO Cash amp;amp; Carry in 2004 achieved sales of 26.4 billion euros. Is now open in 28 countries in the world, has more than 83,425 employees. As early as 95 years, in cooperation with Jinjiang Group and choose to enter the China Shanghai as the first battleground. In October 1996, Shanghai Jinjiang Metro Shopping Center Co., Ltd. in Shanghai Putuo opened. Two months after opening, the mall sales reached a staggering 120 million yuan. Dig into the first pot of gold can be described as successful. After quickly in Shanghai, Wuxi, Ningbo, Nanjing, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Changsha, Chengdu, Dongguan and other cities has opened several stores, largely in the east, central and southern China, the success of a beautiful set Xi Nanbu nets. As early as in 2001, sales in China reached 50 billion yuan. It is noteworthy that, Metro store opened in Wuxi, the date of turnover of 900 million, creating the world’s Metro chain, opened the first day of sales highest on record. After the December 2002 METRO Group in North China, Tianjin Hongqiao first stores opened in shopping malls in the official business, unveiling a prelude into the North China. The final completion of a national network infrastructure construction. Compared with the other two internation