All Carrefour articles – Page 12
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Carrefour's Romania sales drop 0.4% to £952m
Carrefour’s sales in Romania fell 0.4% to e1.13bn (£952m) during 2010, and on a like-for-like basis sales decreased 5%. The retailer’s sales are now lower than they were in 2008, when full-year sales came in at e1.19bn (£1bn) - even though the retailer now operates 14 more stores than it ...
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AnalysisKorea’s Lotte is poised to be Asian powerhouse
Those with even a passing interest in the Asian grocery sector cannot have failed to notice the rise in recent years of South Korea’s Lotte Shopping.
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Ahold to open first store in Belgium
Dutch grocery retailer Ahold is going to open its first store in Belgium in March.The store in Brasschaat, located north of Antwerp and less than 10 kilometres from the Dutch border, will be franchise-owned by Nathalie and Marco Van Ende and supplied by the existing Albert Heijn warehouse in Tilburg, ...
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Carrefour considers JV with Future Group in India
French retailer Carrefour may announce plans for a joint venture with Future Group in India soon, as chief executive Lars Olofsson is expected to visit India later this month or early February.The retailer is known to be in talks with India’s largest retailer Future Group, and has reportedly arrived at ...
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AnalysisCarrefour enters India solo with cash and carry store
Following in the footsteps of its global rivals, Carrefour has finally entered the Indian market with its first cash and carry store
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AnalysisReinventing the Planet
The world’s second biggest retailer, Carrefour, is trying to reinvent the hypermarket. John Ryan visits Lyon in France to find out how
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AnalysisReasons to be optimistic
The second issue of Retail Week Interiors coincides neatly with the annual rush to the shops by those for whom Christmas is less a time of reflection and more an orgy of food and frequently unwanted presents.
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Carrefour to enter India through partnership with Future Group
Future Group is working on plans to join up with French hypermarket chain Carrefour and bring the retailer’s stores to India, The Economic Times reports.Citing ‘sources in the know’, the newspaper says that Future Group chief executive Kishore Biyani is currently in Paris to finalise the details of a joint ...
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NewsTesco among last bidders for Poland's Zabka chain
Tesco and Carrefour are among the final four bidders for Poland’s Zabka retail chain, it is understood.
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Carrefour Express opens
Carrefour is to open its new pilot convenience store format Carrefour Express today in Caen. The concept - which will be opened in towns and rural areas - has a sales area of between 1,075 sq ft and 2,690 sq ft and will offer about 3,500 SKUs. Carrefour Express has ...
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NewsWalmart trials new format in China
Walmart has embarked on a new strategy in China in a bid to reach lower-income and rural shoppers.
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Carrefour considers Dia sale
Carrefour is reportedly considering the sale of its discount business Dia. According to reports the retailer has entrusted French bank BNP Paribas with a “strategic audit” of its discount business worldwide. A member of the retailer’s executive committee was quoted as saying: “The sale of Dia had already been considered ...
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AnalysisCasino trumps Tesco to Carrefour’s Thai assets
Casino subsidiary Big C has emerged as the surprise purchaser of Carrefour’s assets in Thailand.
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NewsTesco thwarted in Asian Carrefour acquisition bid
Tesco has been thwarted once again in its bid to acquire Carrefour’s Asian stores as reports emerge that the French supermarket giant has suspended the sale of its Malaysian and Sinapore stores due to bidders offering too little.
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NewsTesco remains a potential bidder for Carrefour's Malaysian stores despite Thai setback
Tesco remains a potential bidder for rival Carrefour’s Malaysian assets after losing out to Casino in an auction for Carrefour’s Thai business.
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Opinion
Carrefour Belgium to expand self-scanning in stores
Carrefour Belgium is to roll-out hand-held scanning devices to stores for customers to use to speed up and improve their shopping experience.
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AnalysisA world of international retail opportunities
Emerging markets globally have retail potential, but could any be the new China? By Tim Danaher
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Carrefour Q3 sales increase 6.7% to £22.4bn
Carrefour has announced that third-quarter sales rose 6.7% at current exchange rates to reach €25.6bn (£22.4bn). Overall like-for-likes increased by 0.1% excluding petrol. The retailer stated that growth was driven by emerging markets and that in the retailer’s difficult home market, encouraging footfall was noticed for its hypermarkets in the ...
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AnalysisSlow road to South Korea will help Ikea’s prospects
Ikea has reported that group sales for the year ended August 31, 2010, rocketed 7.7% to €23.1bn (£19.2bn).
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Carrefour to refurbish Italian and Spanish hypermarkets to Carrefour Planet next year
Carrefour will begin refurbishing its Italian and Spanish hypermarkets to its new Carrefour Planet concept during 2011. In Spain, 75 of its 164 hypermarkets will be converted. The remaining 89 stores will receive a lower specification upgrade. In Italy, 23 of Carrefour’s 53 hypermarkets will be converted to Carrefour Planet ...