After more than 13 years as Head of REWE Group Corporate Communications, Martin Brüning (56) will leave the company on 30th June 2022 at his own request and on the best of terms. He will be succeeded by Ines Schurin (49), who has been Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at REWE International AG since September 2016 and is the company spokesperson in Wiener Neudorf. Ines Schurin will move from Wiener Neudorf to Cologne on 1st April 2022, where she will work with Martin Brüning to ensure a smooth transition at the helm of REWE Group Corporate Communications.
Lionel Souque, CEO of REWE Group, commented: "My heartfelt thanks and great appreciation go to Martin Brüning for his enormous commitment and outstanding achievements. He took over as Head of REWE Group Corporate Communications in February 2009 and has since made a decisive contribution to fundamentally modernising our internal communications and external media work and continuously improving the reputation of our company among the media and stakeholders. At the same time, I am very pleased that we have found a very experienced successor internally in Ines Schurin, who has already led our communications work in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe with great success."
Marcel Haraszti, Member of the Management Board of REWE International AG, adds: "We are pleased that with Ines Schurin our senior communications manager is taking on this responsible role for the entire REWE Group and are convinced that we will be able to seamlessly continue our international communications work in Austria as well. We will inform about the successor in due course".
Personal details
Ines Schurin has been Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Retail International since September 2016. In this role, she is responsible for public relations, stakeholder communications, internal communications and public affairs for Austria and the eight other countries of REWE Group (Retail International) outside Germany, as well as the Media Unit for Austria. Schurin has already been working at REWE International AG since 2013, from 2013 to 2016 as Press Officer and Head of Public Relations. Until 2013, she was Media Relations Manager and Press Spokesperson at the Austrian energy company VERBUND and before that gained diverse experience in communications management on the agency side as well as in the cultural sector.
About REWE Group (Headquarters: Cologne, Germany)
The cooperative REWE Group - parent and owner of REWE International AG, headquartered in Wiener Neudorf - is one of the leading trading and travel and tourism groups in Germany and Europe. In 2020, the company achieved a total external turnover of around 75 billion euros. In trading, REWE Group operates more than 14,000 locations in the segments of food retailing (including REWE, nahkauf, PENNY, BILLA, ADEG, IKI), home improvement (toom), drugstore retailing (BIPA). The second core business of REWE Group has been travel and tourism since 1988. DER Touristik Group stands for a network of travel experts that is active in 16 European countries. REWE Group, founded in 1927, is present in 21 European countries with more than 380,000 employees.
