Metro Company was founded by Otto Buys Heim, a German, and its headquarters is in Dü sseldorf, Germany. At present, Metro's cash-and-carry shopping malls are mostly constituent companies of the German stock index DAX, so Metro can be regarded as a German company. Established in Germany in 1964, Metro Group is the largest retail and wholesale supermarket group in Germany, the second in Europe and the third in the world. In 1995, he entered China, established Jinjiang Metro Cash Transportation Co., Ltd. in cooperation with Jinjiang Group, and opened the first store of Metro in Shanghai in 196, officially entering the China market.

Metro is a component company of the German stock index DAX and one of the top 511 companies in the world. At present, the company has about 24 million professional customers around the world, and more than 761 wholesale shopping malls and food distribution businesses cover 35 countries and regions around the world, with a total construction area of more than 7 million square meters. In fiscal year 2118, the company's cash-and-carry sales amounted to about 29.5 billion euros, or about 227.4 billion yuan.

Metro is the world's first cash-and-carry business group.

"Cash-and-carry" means that professional customers choose their own goods in warehouse shopping malls, pay in cash and take them away. Compared with the traditional wholesale delivery, the advantages of cash-on-demand and self-delivery lie in better cost performance, wide classification range of food and non-food, instant access to goods and longer business hours.

Shopping malls offer more than 17,111 kinds of food and more than 31,111 kinds of non-food. Especially in the supply of fresh food, including fruits/vegetables, live fish, meat products and dairy products. Metro's target customers include catering industry, hotel industry, food and non-food trade service providers and institutional procurement. They can find large packages to meet special needs.