Germany boss Bräuniger wants to develop the business further

Rocco Bräuniger has been head of Amazon Germany since the beginning of the year, replacing Ralf Kleber, who had done this job for 20 years. Bräuniger not only has to develop the business, but also has to defend the company against accusations that Amazon is exploiting its strong market position.

The Verdi union wants to use regular strikes to force the conclusion of a collective agreement, and the antitrust authorities are investigating how trading partners on the marketplace are treated.

Mr. Bräuniger, according to figures from the online trade association BEVH, sales on online marketplaces in Germany fell by 9.7 percent in the second quarter. Was Amazon able to escape this buyer strike?
You have to see that the business of our sales partners in particular has grown very strongly in the past year and this year we have major challenges, for example due to the Ukraine war and the supply bottlenecks. There are therefore declines in some areas, but on the whole customer demand has developed positively. We don’t publish the German figures, but we are very satisfied with the second quarter.