Carrefour Group News
Carrefour International Partnership pursues its expansion with a new partnership with Czech Group JIP Retail. All stores of the chain’s network will start selling a large range of Carrefour products. JIP Retail will leverage Carrefour brands to offer customers an affordable selection of quality products across the main food and non-food categories. This launch of Carrefour products in the Czech market is a first step: Carrefour International Partnership and JIP Retail plan to deploy Carre...
Carrefour and Nexity have announced the launch of the “Villes et Commerces” property venture, to which Carrefour is contributing an initial portfolio of 69 sites. This represents a key milestone in the implementation of the long-term partnership between the two groups, announced on 6 July 2023. With the upgrade of 76 Carrefour sites across France through urban mixed-use projects, this partnership will constitute the first nationwide large-scale urban regeneration program. The prope...
As part of its commitment to make more efficient use of energy in 2022 with the signing of the Ecowatt and Ecogaz charters, Carrefour is now pledging to make more efficient use of water: it wants to reduce consumption in its France stores by 10% between now and 2025. To achieve this, it has put in place a new series of initiatives designed to tackle water waste. Water is a precious resource – and humans need to preserve it. In the summer of 2022, France was hit by a drought the likes of w...
Last summer, Carrefour stepped forward when France’s Minister of the Interior and Overseas territories Gérald Darmanin appealed to public and private sector companies to give their employees time off so they could aid firefighters. The Group has decided to bolster its support and double the number of days that its volunteer firefighter employees can take per year – the number is increasing from 10 to 20 days. Employees who find themselves called up to provide backup out in t...
Alexandre de Palmas, currently Executive Director of Carrefour Spain, has been appointed Executive Director of Carrefour France, a member of the Group Executive Committee, effective September 4. He succeeds Rami Baitieh, who is leaving the Group to pursue a new professional project abroad. Elodie Perthuisot has been appointed Executive Director of Carrefour Spain, a member of the Group Executive Committee, effective September 4. She retains her position as Executive Director E-commerce, Data an...
Carrefour announces that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with NewPrinces Group regarding the sale of all its operations in Italy. This transaction is part of the strategic review initiated by Carrefour at the beginning of the year. Carrefour Italy (“the Company”) operates a multi-format network of 1,188 stores (including 41 hypermarkets, 315 supermarkets, 820 convenience stores and 12 cash & carry outlets), and generated gross sales of €4.2bn in 2024, r...
Following the decisions of the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence – ADLC) approving Carrefour’s acquisition of the Cora and Match banners in France, the Provera purchasing group, and 27 Casino stores, and in line with its commitments to the ADLC, the Group announces the signing of two agreements for the sale of 9 stores located in areas identified by the ADLC. These include 5 Carrefour hypermarkets (of which 3 former Cora stores and 1 a former Casino sto...
Carrefour and Coopérative U have decided to join forces to establish a European buying alliance called Concordis. This new alliance aims to increase the purchasing competitiveness of its partners by pooling volumes, ultimately benefiting consumers. The new alliance will operate under a dual scope: negotiating purchase prices and offering international services. It will engage with multinational suppliers of branded consumer goods in the European countries where Carrefour and Coop&...
As early as 2019, Carrefour initiated a significant reduction in energy consumption in its stores through the installation of doors on refrigerated units, LED lighting, and the renewal of its refrigeration plants. These actions have resulted in a 48% reduction in direct GHG emissions (scopes 1 and 2) in 2024 (compared to 2019). Carrefour is therefore ahead of its target of a -50% reduction by 2040 (compared to 2019). Three pioneering initiatives As for indirect emissions, which accoun...
Carrefour is pursuing its ambition to make reading accessible to all from an early age, and has set itself the target of selling 30 million 1 euro books by 2030. This initiative is in line with its program to combat illiteracy and dyslexia-related disorders. Making reading accessible to all, in particular by giving the youngest children a taste for reading, is a social challenge and a factor of inclusion, to which Carrefour intends to contribute by launching a new collection of 20 books at 1&eu...
As early as 2015, Carrefour pioneered a de-plastification approach in its stores, starting notably with fruits and vegetables (even before the AGEC law), batteries, light bulbs, and textile products. All these actions have resulted in savings of more than 20,000 tons of packaging, particularly plastic packaging, and have helped create market standards, now adopted by most other distributors and national brand suppliers. integration of recycled plastic in packaging Remove 15,000 tons o...
Carrefour announced its decision to raise its offer to acquire all outstanding shares of its subsidiary, Grupo Carrefour Brasil ("Carrefour Brazil"). Minority shareholders are now offered the following options in exchange for their shares: 8.50 Brazilian reais (R$) in cash per Carrefour Brazil share (vs. R$7.70 previously) 1 Carrefour share1 for every 9.96 Carrefour Brazil shares (vs. 1 for 11) A combination of the two options: R$4.25 in cash per Carrefour Brazil share pl...
Since the preparation of the EUDR Regulation, Carrefour has supported the adoption of ambitious regulations to combat imported deforestation. Carrefour has been committed for many years to fighting deforestation within its supply chains, and this regulation represents a real step forward by aiming to ensure fair competition and requiring all players to adhere to traceability and biodiversity protection standards. While the implementation of this regulation poses logistical and technical challe...
Finalized last July, the acquisition of the distributor Cora by Carrefour enters a new phase with the gradual transition of the 60 stores under their new brand. This integration will be carried out in three waves of brand change: a first of 19 stores, which will begin on October 1; a second of 20 stores from mid-October; and finally, a final wave of 21 stores from the end of October. Codes of the Carrefour group The changeover will take place during a transition period of approximately two...
The Carrefour Group announces that it has entered into a partnership with GreenYellow, the pioneer in decentralized energy transition in France and internationally, for the installation and operation of photovoltaic power production equipment on around 350 of its hypermarket and supermarket car parks in France. This initiative is in line with the Carrefour 2026 plan and its ambition to enhance the value of real estate assets, reflected in a solar power production target in France, Spain, and...
Carrefour announces that it has finalized the acquisition of the Cora and Match banners in France, from the Louis Delhaize group. This operation consolidates Carrefour's position in the food distribution market in France, with 60 Cora hypermarkets and 115 Match supermarkets, mainly located in the Grand East and Northern regions of France, where Carrefour has historically had little presence. These stores represent approximately 2.4% of the food distribution market share in France. operat...
Carrefour announces that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Groupe Intermarché to acquire 31 stores. These stores represent 94,000sqm, or 0.3% of the food retail space in France. They generated sales of around €400m million in 2022. The value of the acquisition is not material. Under the terms of the agreement, Carrefour will substitute Intermarché for the purchase of 26 stores from Casino, while the remaining five stores will be acquired directly from Intermarché. Carrefou...
Carrier Transicold has announced its Syberia 11 unit was selected by the CATHyOPÉ consortium to provide France’s first electric-hydrogen truck with an all-electric, engineless refrigeration unit. CATHyOPÉ is a pioneering program, which is aimed at designing and putting into service a 44-ton refrigerated transport truck, featuring electric engines, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Carrier Transicold is part of Carrier Global Corporation, the globally renowned provider of heal...
