METRO Cash & Carry, India’s leading Wholesaler and food specialist has been certified as one of India’s Top 25 Best Companies To Work For 2021 by Great Place To Work® (GPTW) Institute, and has been recognized amongst the Top 10 Best Workplaces in Retail in 2021. Ranked No. 23 in one of the most comprehensive employee survey of workplace culture, the recognition is a testament of METRO’s focus on customer centricity and performance driven work culture. The recognition is based on employee feedback and rating of their workplace, along with quality of people practices on various parameters such as building pride and camaraderie amongst co-workers, fairness at workplace, credibility of management and respect for people. The workplace culture and experience offered to employees, irrespective of their role, gender, level, tenure within the organization were some of the key parameters for assessment.

Speaking about the recognition, Arvind Mediratta, MD & CEO, METRO Cash & Carry India said “We are delighted to have been adjudged as one of India’s top 25 Best Companies To Work for in 2021. This coveted recognition validates our commitment towards our people and nurturing an inclusive, diverse and high performance culture at METRO. Our frontline workers- our employees don’t work for METRO; they work for the success of millions of small and independent businesses in India. They are the ones who have been working tirelessly to live up to our purpose of being ‘Champion for Independent Business’ in India.”

Great Place to Work® Institute’s methodology is recognized as rigorous and objective and considered gold standard for defining great workplaces to work for across business, academia and government organisations. As part of the assessment, Great Place to Work® institute assessed METRO’s people management practices by measuring perception using Trust Index© Employee Survey and assessing METRO’s Culture Audit© for its People Practices.

METRO India has consistently been adjudged as Top 100 Best Companies to work for in India in the recent years ranking 91 in 2019 and 56 in 2020.