Tag "Carrefour"
Picnic joins forces with Intermarché in France
In France, Dutch online supermarket Picnic is swapping its current partner Coopérative U for Intermarché, the supermarket chain that is affiliated to the same buying alliance, Everest. Picnic’s French hubs...
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Carrefour Polska Launches New Pricing Policy For Essential Products
Carrefour Polska has initiated a new strategy, effective from March, to ensure that the prices of over 500 essential products match the lowest prices in major competing retail chains. Part...
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Carrefour launches new convenience store concept in French stations
Carrefour has signed an agreement to provide 45 metro stations around Paris with a new concept of convenience stores, focused on commuters. The plan could involve up to 136 spaces in the...
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Carrefour wants to expand Belgian Sunday openings
Carrefour intends to open its Belgian company-operated stores (44 supermarkets and 40 hypermarkets) on Sundays as well. The unions were “surprised” by the initiative, but are “willing to engage in discussions”. As...
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Kaufland Poland in Need of Transformation
Kaufland Poland has become the problem child of Kaufland’s international business. The Wroclaw-based subsidiary of the German superstore operator plunged into the red in the past fiscal year, posting a...
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Carrefour ends distribution of brochures in France
Carrefour has announced that it will cease the home delivery of unaddressed paper promotional brochures in its home market of France on 31 March. This move is part of the retailer’s...
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Carrefour Teams Up With Lagardère For French Train Station Stores
Retailer Carrefour has teamed up with Lagardère Travel Retail to roll out approximately 150 outlets in French stations over the next five years. Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said in a...
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Carrefour Exits Oman, Expands Delivery In Spain, Launches New Loyalty Programme In France
After nearly three decades of operation in Oman, French retailer Carrefour has ceased its operations in the country. Carrefour, a major player in the Middle East with over 320 stores...
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Carrefour offloads another 39 French stores
Carrefour is offloading 39 French – often loss-making – hypermarkets and supermarkets to independent operators in a bid to cut operating costs. Unions protest to what they call is a restructuring...
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Carrefour launches 24/7 express grocery delivery in Dubai
The service offers over 10,000 products. Carrefour, operated by Majid Al Futtaim Retail in the UAE, has launched a 24/7 express grocery delivery service in Dubai. The pilot hub, initially...
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Romania’s AuGust Eyes Purchase Of 87 Stores From Ahold Delhaize
Romanian convenience store chain AuGust is negotiating to buy 87 Profi and Mega Image stores from Ahold Delhaize in Romania. The sale of the stores is a requirement placed by Romania’s...
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Carrefour Italia Focuses On Franchising And Italian Organic Products
Carrefour Italia is implementing a recovery strategy focused on franchising expansion and its Act for Food programme. This follows a disappointing summer and a 3.5% drop in first-half sales, to...
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Carrefour requires suppliers to disclose Nutri-Score
In France, all branded Carrefour suppliers will be required to state the Nutri-Score of their products on the retailer’s website and app. Those who refuse to do so will be...
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Carrefour Ramps Up Support For French Food Banks
Carrefour has reaffirmed its support for La Fédération Française des Banques Alimentaires, the federation of French food banks, with a planned €1.5 million in donations over three years. The retailer...
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Carrefour teams up with Bringo to collect packaging waste in Romania
In partnership with food delivery service Bringo, Carrefour is collecting used packaging in Romania. As part of the initiative, customers of any Carrefour hypermarket will be able to return empty...
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Carrefour uses AI to reduce food waste in Belgium
Every day Carrefour has to discount 40,000 near-expiry items in its 831 large stores in Belgium. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/10 As this is a...
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Wasteless AI Launches In 640 Carrefour Stores In Argentina
Carrefour Argentina has completed the rollout of Wasteless AI across all 640 of its stores. This collaboration aims to drastically reduce food waste, lower markdown costs by 54%, and offer...
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Carrefour feels impact of price competition and Sunday openings
Carrefour sees sales rising thanks to encouraging evolutions in consumer behaviour. But in France price investments are weighing on revenues, while in Belgium Sunday openings at Delhaize are playing tricks...
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Carrefour Commences Rebranding Of Cora Stores
Carrefour has commenced the rebranding of the Cora supermarkets that it acquired in July, with the first 19 stores set to be rebranded on 1 October. Following this, a second...
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Carrefour Spain Invests Over €84m in Price Reduction Initiative
Carrefour Spain is investing over €84 million this year in a series of price reductions to support its customers amidst cost-of-living concerns. From September, Carrefour has reduced prices on 2,500...
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Spanish Regional Chains Outperform National Competitors
The Spanish grocery market is showing signs of stabilisation after five years of upheaval caused by the pandemic, inflation, and supply chain disruptions. According to Kantar, the top four chains...
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Planted picks Germany for second meat-alternatives factory
The Swiss start-up currently manufactures its plant-based products from a site in Kemptthal, Switzerland. Planted plans to build a second factory for meat alternatives to ramp-up production of its “whole...
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Carrefour Teams Up With Dubai’s Apparel Group To Expand Into India
French multinational retail giant Carrefour is launching a franchise partnership with Dubai-based Apparel Group to establish its presence in India. The partnership will be aimed at North India initially, with...
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Mercadona, Carrefour Lead Supermarket Rankings In Spain
Mercadona and Carrefour emerged as top retailers in Spain in terms of market share for July despite experiencing some decline. Mercadona’s market share stood at 26.8% (down 0.2 percentage points...
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Carrefour implements AI tool to combat food waste
Every day, Carrefour has to discount more than 40,000 items in its 83 largest stores in Belgium alone, purely because they are approaching their expiration dates. As this is hugely costly in...
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Carrefour Romania Unveils First Rebranded Hypermarket
Carrefour Romania has opened its first rebranded hypermarket in the Supernova shopping centre in Bucharest, following the integration of the former Cora stores. The hypermarket has a sales area of 6,881...
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Carrefour Streamlines Romanian Operations Through Merger
Carrefour Romania is simplifying its business structure by merging five companies it operates into a single entity. This unified company will be able to negotiate better deals with suppliers, distributors,...
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Carrefour grows in France and Brazil, lags behind in rest of Europe
Carrefour says it is rather pleased with its financial results in the second quarter and first half of the year, despite challenging conditions in Europe. Growth was driven by its...
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Carrefour Eyes Acquisition Of Uvesco In Spain
Carrefour is exploring the acquisition of Spanish food distributor Uvesco Group from PAI Partners, according to media reports. PAI Partners owns a majority stake in Uvesco, which operates the BM...
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Ferrero Unveils Nutella Ice Cream For Summer
Italian confectionery giant Ferrero celebrated Nutella’s 60th anniversary in Paris with a sweet surprise: the launch of Nutella Ice Cream. The news was revealed by Alessandro Paleni, regional marketing manager...
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