METRO Cash & Carry India launches ‘Mango Hungama’ in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, May 18, 2012: With the onset of the Mango Season, METRO Cash & Carry India announces the ‘METRO Mango Hungama’, offering its customers a wide variety of mangoes at wholesale rates. The varieties available at METRO centres include loose and boxed Alphonsos, Senduran, Totapuri, Baneshan, Mallika, Dasheri, Longra, Salad, Kesar, Chinnarasam, Peddarasam, Chirakurasam and Himampasand, as well as a variety of raw mangoes. These varieties have been sourced especially for METRO customers from farmers in several regions of Andhra Pradesh, including Jaheerabad, Ontimamadi, Nujiveedu, Chittur and Puttryala.

This festival will not just allow customers to enjoy a wide variety of mangoes much beyond the local season, but also allow local farmers to take their produce to a much wider market through the METRO network of wholesale centres across India. Customers can also be sure of the quality of produce they purchase, with METRO selling only naturally ripened mangoes ensuring health and safety along with superior taste.

METRO Cash & Carry stands for excellent freshness under best hygienic conditions of its food assortment. It provides one of the widest food assortment in the Cash & Carry business. Its offerings include over 8,000 top quality food items including fruits and vegetables, confectionery, dairy products and cheese, breads and pastries, fresh meat, fish and poultry. Customers can be assured of freshness, quality and quantity as well as specialised services when purchasing at METRO.

About METRO Cash & Carry

METRO Cash & Carry is represented in 30 countries with around 700 self-service wholesale centres. With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, the company achieved sales of about € 31 billion in 2011. METRO Cash & Carry is a sales division of the METRO GROUP.

METRO Cash & Carry entered the Indian market in 2003. The company currently operates eleven wholesale distribution centres including two each in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai, and one each in New Delhi, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Jaipur.

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