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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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Retail trade 2023: rationalising consumers, technological development
In this article we try to paint a picture of what happened in retail trade last year. 2023 was a challenging year for the food sector in Europe and overseas....
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Carrefour Romania Launches Initiative To Fight Inflation
Carrefour Romania is introducing a nationwide price reduction programme, to help customers cope with inflation and rising prices. The programme, titled Minus la Sută, will see Carrefour Romania offering discounts of...
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Accessible products can be a real help for people with disabilities
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 30 million adults face visual challenges in Europe alone and 200 million people suffer from hearing loss. This article is available for reading...
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French supermarkets have to inform shoppers about shrinkflation
From 1 July, supermarkets in France will have to alert customers to instances of so-called “shrinkflation”, when retailers or manufacturers make their products smaller without reducing the price. When a...
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Carrefour Returns To Bulgaria After A Decade
French supermarket chain Carrefour is back in Bulgaria after a nearly ten-year hiatus, according to local media reports. News portal Capital reported that last month, the retailer opened two stores in...
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Retail consolidation in Central & South-Eastern Europe accelerates: Discounters and local heroes can increase the lead against other competitors
Over the past two years the emerging markets of Europe have gained in importance in the balance sheets of international retailers. However, in contrast to the past, market share growth...
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Walmart leads annual ranking of top 50 global retailers
Két amerikai székhelyű kiskereskedelmi óriás áll az 50 legjobb globális kiskereskedő éves rangsorának élén, amely 2023 eleji működési teljesítményük alapján készült. Megőrizte első helyét a Walmart a National Retail Federation...
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Carrefour, Glovo Launch 30-Minute Grocery Delivery Service In Italy
Carrefour Italia and Glovo have joined forces to launch a quick-commerce service, Carrefour Sprint, offering 30-minute grocery deliveries in Italy. Operated by Glovo, the first Carrefour Sprint urban dark store...
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Carrefour on track with ‘Digital Retail 2026’ strategy
Investment focus in CEE on Romania, while high competition in Poland lets franchise network dwindle Carrefour improves its financial soundness and moves ahead on its way to becoming Europe’s largest...
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Auchan, Carrefour, Intermarché team up to buy 288 Casino stores
The deal is finally done: three French retail groups team up to acquire 288 Casino stores for 1.35 billion euros. New in the endeavour is Carrefour, which takes over 26 stores. French map...
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Netflix works with a retail chain
French supermarket chain Carrefour and streaming platform Netflix are testing a new subscription program together called Carrefour Plus. The pilot program is currently available in two cities, Rouen and Bordeaux,...
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