Carrefour

In order to offer customers a new shopping experience centred around making purchases in comfort, friendliness and fun, Carrefour has developed a new hypermarket concept – Carrefour Planet. With two pilot stores in Ecully and Venissieux in France, Carrefour...

Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer by sales, has recently launched two new supermarkets in Rumania – at Bucharest and Alexandria. The store at Bucharest extends over a sales area of 780 sq.mt and has seven cash counters, while the one...

Carrefour has signed an agreement to acquire 51 per cent stake in Baolongcang, a major hypermarket operator in the fast growing Hebei region, close to Beijing, in China. Baolongcang’s founders will retain the remaining 49 per cent stake in...

Europe's leading bonus card services provider, Payback, together with Peepul Capital, has recently acquired a majority stake in India's largest loyalty card provider – i-mint. Alexander Rittweger, founder CEO of Payback, talks to IndiaRetailing about his plans to foray...

According to Planet Retail’s 2010 Global Retail rankings, Tesco is expected to add nearly $50 billion in sales by 2014. The UK-based Tesco is likely to grow group business by 50 per cent to reach $146 billion by 2014....

The Consumer Goods Forum, Paris has elected Muhtar Kent, chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, and Lars Olofsson, CEO of Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer, as its new co-chairs. Elected for a two-year term, the co-chairs will...

The Turkish subsidiary of Carrefour has signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent stake in Ipek — a local supermarket chain. Ipek operates 27 supermarkets in Istanbul under the Alpark banner. It recorded net sales of 79 million...

Lars Olofsson, chief executive officer and board member of Carrefour, has appointed Vicente Trius as executive director, Europe and member of the group’s executive board, in charge of Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, Cyprus and Romania. Vicente Trius, a 52-year-old...

Following its success in 2009, Carrefour has featured again this year among France’s 20 employers, receiving a “Top Employeur” award for the excellence of its human resources offering. Carrefour also received the special Corporate Culture award for the quality...

French retail giant Carrefour’s Indonesian operation has won an appeal at the South Jakarta District Court against the anti-monopoly watchdog’s accusations that it employed unfair business practices. The court ruled Wednesday the claims by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU)...