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Retailers keep announcing cooperation related decisions. Carrefour and Tesco took a step back in their collective private label product sourcing, because the French competition authority had problems with it. In...

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Carrefour Belgium Freezes Prices Of Over 20,000 Products

Carrefour Belgium has announced plans to freeze the prices of more than 20,000 products until the end of this year to help households during the second wave of coronavirus pandemic....

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Carrefour bakes breads with 25 percent less salt

Joining the battle against excessive salt consumption, French retailer Carrefour has reduced the salt content in some of its bakery items by 25 percent. The retailer introduced salt from calcium- and...

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Carrefour Announces New Grocery Delivery Service In Poland

Carrefour Polska has announced that it is to launch Carrefour Sprint – a new grocery delivery service which will deliver orders within three hours. Initially, the service will be available to shoppers...

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Carrefour Cuts Salt From Some Bakery Items By 25%

French retailer Carrefour has announced that it has reduced the salt content in some of its bakery items by 25% in a bid to tackle excessive salt consumption. The retailer...

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PLMA news from Europe

Auchan has started a major restructuring process, rethinking its hypermarket strategy and planning to use large floor space stores mainly as delivery and production centres. Carrefour has acquired the 172-store...

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Carrefour Poland introduces Click & Collect service for groceries

Customers of Carrefour Poland may also opt for click&collect service when placing a grocery order on carrefour.pl site. The orders are picked by the staff of the store selected from...

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Carrefour To Roll Out Sustainably Grown Potatoes

French retailer Carrefour has announced that it is to launch potatoes grown using sustainable farming methods in October across the country. The potatoes, grown without the use of pesticides, will...

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Carrefour To Recycle Single-Use Masks In France

French retailer Carrefour has launched an initiative to collect and recycle single-use surgical masks in France in a bid to limit pollution caused by discarded masks. Presently, the retailer is...

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Carrefour Poland Introduces Click & Collect Service For Groceries

Carrefour Poland has announced that it has added grocery shopping to its Click & Collect service. The initiative will allow customers to purchase groceries from the carrefour.pl online store and...

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Carrefour Polska Launches Limited Edition ‘Let it Bee’ School Notebooks

Carrefour Polska has launched a limited edition ‘Let it Bee’ school notebooks in a bid protect biodiversity and urban beekeeping. The notebooks were launched on 8 August, which is also...

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Carrefour to open first store in Andorra

Carrefour is going to open its first hypermarket in Andorra, following the signing of a franchise agreement with Groupe Pyrénées, the principality’s leading retail enterprise. The planned 6,000m² store will...

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Carrefour wants to save loss-making hypermarkets with technology

More than half of the Carrefour hypermarkets in France are loss-making. The group is investing in mobile payment options and an Amazon Go variant to make shopping as easy as...

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Carrefour Brasil Introduces Private Label Beer

Carrefour Brasil has launched a private label beer range in partnership with local brewers Way Beer and Startup Brewing. The Nauta brand offers 11 SKUs, of which six are available...

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Carrefour France’s online and digital initiatives

From its launch of a voice grocery service with Google to enabling shoppers to self-scanning via smartphone and the introduction of its online marketplace Carrefour is driving its online and...

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Carrefour launches new marketing campaign in France

Carrefour has launched a new marketing campaign focused on spotlighting its prices, the quality it offers through its private label ranges and those products made in France. Carrefour said its...

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FMCG retail is a pillar of social stability Last time PLMALive.eu, the monthly video magazine of the Private Label Manufacturers Association was about the influence of COVID-19 on European retail,...

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Carrefour, Red Cross partner to support communities in Kenya impacted by Covid-19

Carrefour has launched a month-long donation campaign in partnership with the Kenya Red-Cross to assist communities in need, with donations. The donation will consist of maize meal, rice, sugar, cooking...

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Auchan and Carrefour sign landmark Declaration with UNI to tackle Covid-19

UNI Global Union, Auchan Retail and Carrefour Group have signed a joint declaration on the implementation of good business practice in response to the health crisis caused by the Covid-19...

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Brasil’s e-commerce surges, but coronavirus costs curb gains

Carrefour Brasil has seen its e-commerce sales more than triple over the past month as Brazilians have stocked up on food and other supplies during coronavirus lockdowns, but the cost...

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Carrefour Supports French Fishermen During Crisis

As COVID-19 impacts the global food chain, Carrefour is taking action to support the French fishing industry. In an attempt to mitigate falling prices, the French retailer has committed to...

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PLMA News

Big Data – big challenge Big data revolutionises retail trade, and according to a study by Capgemini, although 25 percent of 250 leading retail companies are utilising some kind of...

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Mobile grocery bus launches in Dubai

Carrefour UAE, operated by Majid Al Futtaim Retail, has launched Mobimart, the first grocery store on a bus. The service will bring convenient and accessible shopping to underserviced neighbourhoods across...

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Carrefour And Nestlé Launch ‘Adopt a Fruit, Adopt a Vegetable’ Initiative

Carrefour has teamed up with Nestlé to launch the ‘Adopt a Fruit, Adopt a Vegetable’ initiative in France to help parents in encouraging their children to adopt a healthier and...

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Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France until 2022

Discounter Lidl plans to open 50 new stores a year in France by 2022, following its busiest year for new store openings in the country. Since 2012 Lidl has invested...

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Carrefour enters the subscription economy

French supermarket chain Carrefour has expanded further into online groceries by acquiring a subscription box company. Potager City sells fruit and vegetable boxes to customers in 350 towns in France....

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Magazine: Supermarkets can use private label products as a weapon

The Private Labels Manufacturers Association (PLMA) has a monthly news programme at PLMALive.eu, called Newsdesk, and our magazine now presents to you the highlights of the October edition. In the...

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Carrefour Italia Acquires 28 Auchan Outlets From Conad

Carrefour Italia has signed an agreement with Conad to acquire 28 Auchan stores in the Lombardy region in Italy for an undisclosed amount, reports suggest. Most of the stores are...

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Carrefour Belgium Introduces Bags Made Of Ocean Waste

Carrefour Belgium has announced that it has introduced a new range of reusable and recyclable carrier bags derived from ocean waste. The new range includes three varieties – a tote...

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Carrefour enters the market of Uzbekistan in 2020

French retail giant Carrefour plans to enter the market of Uzbekistan in 2020 in partnership with the Majid Al Futtaim Group. Over the next 2 years, Carrefour aims to open...

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