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Metro AG has announced that Otto Beisheim managing director Dr Fredy Raas is to join its supervisory board, replacing the recently deceased professor Erich Greipl.

'Dr Fredy Raas is a recognised retail and financial expert and commands intensive knowledge about Metro from his many years of service as chief financial officer of Metro Cash & Carry Germany and other entities', said Franz Markus Haniel, chairman of the supervisory board of Metro.

Raas is a member of the management boards of the Otto Beisheim Group and of the boards of the two Prof. Otto Beisheim foundations in Baar/Switzerland and Munich.

Prior to this, he worked in various corporate functions at Metro, and then at Otto Beisheim Group from 1991 onwards.