Press Release 20th June 2024

Florian Klein takes over the management of REWE Großhandel GmbH from Jürgen Öllinger on 1 January 2025

After five and a half years as Managing Director and after 14 years at ADEG in the wholesale division, Jürgen Öllinger has decided not to extend his contract and to leave REWE Group at the end of the year on the best of terms. His successor will be Florian Klein, currently Head of the Wholesale & Merchants division at BILLA.

Jürgen Öllinger, Brian Beck, Florian Klein

Jürgen Öllinger, Brian Beck, Florian Klein / Copyright: © REWE/Robert Harson. Abdruck zu redaktionellen Zwecken honorarfrei., Reproduction for PR purposes free of charge

Download

Jürgen Öllinger (45) began his career in 2003 in the IT organisation and then moved to Central Purchasing at REWE International AG. In 2010, the year of the takeover by REWE International AG, he joined ADEG Österreich Handels AG, where he headed the Organisation, Category Management and Purchasing departments. He was appointed to the ADEG Management Board in 2019 and has been Managing Director of REWE Großhandel GmbH since 2022, where he is responsible for Purchasing, Sales, Marketing and Building Technology & Furnishings. For personal reasons, Jürgen Öllinger has decided to step down as Managing Director at the end of the year. In future, he will be moving the centre of his life back to his home in Upper Austria.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jürgen Öllinger for his outstanding commitment and consistently good cooperation. He has achieved a great deal in his career - he played a key role in shaping the integration of ADEG into REWE International AG, helped build up the co-operations with the mineral oil companies and was jointly responsible for AGM sales. He will continue to bear full responsibility for REWE Wholesale until the end of the year," says Brian Beck, the BILLA Management Board member responsible for REWE Wholesale, and continues: "At the same time, I am delighted to have found a suitable successor in Florian Klein. Klein is a profound wholesale expert with extensive knowledge of the food trade. He works closely with the operational business and has the necessary strategic skills to successfully develop REWE Wholesale together with me and the team in the coming years."

Florian Klein (36) joined REWE Group in 2019 from the management consultancy Boston Consulting Group. In the first few years, Florian Klein worked on BIPA's recovery and growth course and was responsible for business development, controlling and strategy. For the past two years, he has been Head of the Wholesale & Merchants Competence Centre in the BILLA "Wholesale & Merchants" department. There, the Viennese is responsible for strategic, financial, personnel and legal issues relating to the ADEG merchant model and REWE Wholesale.