Olaf Koch

The Consumer Goods Forum Sustainable Retail Summit Review: Thursday

The Consumer Goods Forum Sustainable Retail Summit got under way on Thursday with an exhortation for Forum members to embrace the theme of the event, 'Toda...

Next-Generation Thinking – Olaf Koch On Funding The Future Of Food

ESM's Stephen Wynne-Jones catches up with former Metro chief executive Olaf Koch, who is now funding the future of food with his Zintinus investment vehicl...

7 Ways Food Technology Is Transforming The Global Food Industry

Olaf Koch, partner, Zintinus, and Marc-André Kamel, partner, head of global retail practice, Bain & Company, explore some of the dynamics that c...

Wholesaler Metro Announces CEOs For 'Transition Period'

Cash and carry giant Metro AG has announced that Christian Baier, the company's CFO and Rafael Gasset, its COO, will jointly assume the position of chief e...

Mission Accomplished? Olaf Koch To Depart A Much-Transformed Metro

Announcing the decision to promote then-CFO Olaf Koch to the position of chief executive back in 2011, wholesaler Metro said that the appointment symbolise...

Metro AG CEO Olaf Koch To Step Down At The End Of The Year

German wholesaler Metro AG has announced that CEO Olaf Koch will step down from the position at the end of this year. On Friday (21 August), Koch inform...

Metro Sees Signs Of Recovery, Issues More Optimistic Full-Year Outlook

Metro said that its sales have developed 'very positively' in recent weeks, leading the wholesale giant to issue an improved outlook for its full-year 2019...

Koch Looks To The Future As Metro AG Completes Real Sale

Olaf Koch, the chief executive of wholesaler Metro AG, has said that the business is eager to "capture the additional opportunities that lie ahead&quo...