METRO is a sales division of METRO GROUP, one of the largest and most important international retailing companies. Within more than 13 years of operations in Ukraine METRO opened 23 classical wholesale stores: in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih, Poltava, Vinnytsya, Zaporizhya, Chernivtsi, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mariupol, Zhytomyr and 2 Bery Vezy stores: in Ternopil and Lutsk. Today the company employs around 2800 employees.