Metro AG appoints Media-Saturn COO Pieter Haas as Management Board member in charge for Media-Saturn and Business Innovation, effective from Q2 2013.

The move extends the Metro AG board to 5 members and underlines the "high strategic significance" of Media-Saturn for the Group.

"We are pleased that, with Pieter Haas, we are able to welcome a proven expert of the Media-Saturn business on the Metro AG Management Board," supervisory board chairman Franz Markus Haniel says.

Haas joined Media-Saturn as Dutch subsidiary MD on 2001, before joining the Media-Saturn board as COO in 2008. He started his career in 1986 as analyst and consultant with the Hay Group.

The Group still has to name a replacement for Haas within Media-Saturn.

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