Otto Group

The Otto Group is a globally active group of retailers and retail-related service providers with averaged 53,823 employees and sales of EUR 11.8 billion in the 2012/13 financial year. The Group, with 123 major companies, has a presence in more than 20 countries in Europe, North and South America and in Asia. The Otto Group is structured in three segments: Multichannel Retail, Financial Services and Services. The Multichannel Retail segment comprises the Otto Group’s domestic and foreign companies that offer their products via the three distribution channels: e-commerce, catalogue business, and over-the-counter – OTC in short – retail and are thus available to customers around the clock. The product range includes fashion, shoes and lifestyle products, furniture and home accessories, toys and also electricals, sports and leisure products. The Otto Group is the world’s largest online fashion and lifestyle retailer to the end-consumer (B2C). The Financial Services segment comprises the Otto Group’s offers of international financial services with the main emphases on debt collection, debtor, receivables and liquidity management. The internationally active EOS Group offers a broad portfolio of retail-related services. The Services segment comprises the Otto Group’s logistics and sourcing companies. They render their services both to the Otto Group’s Multichannel Retail segment and also to customers outside the Group.