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Here you can find news from the Otto Group that have an international focus. On the homepages of the group companies you are able to find all of the reports concerning the companies.
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May 16th, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility
The Otto Group is signatory to the Fire Prevention Agreement in BangladeshThe Otto Group is one of the supporters of the Building and Fire Protection Agreement developed by the worldwide trade union associations IndustriALL and UNI, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC) and the national trade unions in Bangladesh.
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May 15th, 2013 | Company
Annual Financial Statements Conference 2012/13: Otto Group achieves clear profit increaseThe Otto Group closed the 2012/13 financial year (as at 28 February) with moderate growth and a clearly improved profit result. The Group’s turnover rose by 1.6 per cent to reach 11.8 billion euros, while profit (EBIT) rose by 50 per cent to 388 million euros.
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May 2nd, 2013 | Company
FOKUS: Negotiations almost wrapped upWith FOKUS, last year the Otto Group launched one of the most important future-orientated projects in recent years. Negotiations between employee and employer representatives on the balance of interests and the social plan are now almost concluded. It already seems likely that the remaining number of full-time jobs to be shed will probably be less than half of the 700 originally announced.
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April 30th, 2013 | Company
Quelle.de relaunches with a new business conceptThe former retail platform quelle.de is relaunching as an online shop with a reengineered business model as of 2 May 2013. The focus will remain on the Consumer Electronics and Living assortments.
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April 5th, 2013 | Company
Otto Group set to invest 300 million euros in e-commerce projects and achieve 8 billion in online turnover by 2015The Group aims to continue to benefit from the dynamic development of online retail and plans to invest some 300 million euros by 2015. On the one hand the Group aims to drive the development of promising start-ups, and on the other hand to further develop its existing multichannel retailers.
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March 27th, 2013 | Company
Otto Group reports sustainable growthIn the 2012/13 financial year (to 28 February 2013), according to preliminary calculations the Otto Group, Hamburg, increased its turnover by 1.7 per cent from 11.6 billion to 11.8 billion euros. “In a fiercely competitive global environment, the Otto Group had a successful year. The Group saw a twin benefit from the dynamic development of e-commerce: both the Group’s online retail turnovers as well as turnover in the Financial Services and Service business segments grew above average. Development in Russia was very positive, where market-leader Otto Group Russia once again achieved a double-digit turnover increase.
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February 11th, 2013 |
Less air in the box: Otto Group reduces annual transport volume by more than 500 truckloadsThe Otto Group processes over 125 million deliveries annually for its customers through the Group’s own logistics service provider, Hermes. About 40 per cent of this is delivered as parcels. Now, the internationally active retail and service group has optimised the size of its boxes: this reduces the transport volume in the delivery of goods ordered from companies in the Otto Group by more than 500 truckloads per year. The benefit for the environment and efficiency means that some 170 tonnes of CO2 emissions can be eliminated.
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January 30th, 2013 | Company
Otto Group invests in stress preventionThe results of the ‘Stressreport 2012’ presented on 29 January, 2013 in Berlin reveal that an increasing number of employees are suffering from stress in the workplace. The Otto Group has already been investing for years in a long-term operational health-management system, in order to identify stress-related illnesses among employees in good time and to implement preventative measures.
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January 9th, 2013 | Company
Using the smartphone to get a new jobMobile recruiting is on the rise bringing with it an increase in mobile job searches. In-line with this latest trend, the Otto Group’s mobile career portal m.ottogroup.com/careers is now even easier to use, more informative and features many practical tools for job seekers. The smartphone versions of the Otto Group’s and multichannel retailer OTTO’s corporate websites have also been given a complete new makeover.
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December 17th, 2012 | Corporate Responsibility
School project in Zambia: planning phase complete, children from 1,200 households to have access to educationThe Otto Group and the Aid by Trade Foundation launched a project in 2011 to support school infrastructure in Zambia. Now, locations for nine planned schools are settled and the expansion of the largest school is almost complete. Construction of additional schools has begun. OTTO supports this action before Christmas with an appeal for donations to the construction of a well.
