Carrefour news

Through its partnership with quick commerce specialist Cornershop by Uber, Carrefour has added a new 15-minute delivery service in the city of São Paulo. Early stages of roll out The new service, called Carrefour Já, is selectable in the existing Cornershop by Uber app, but only in areas where the service is currently available. It was initially piloted in two stores back in July and expand...

As inflation continues to rise across Europe, Carrefour has implemented methods to help protect shoppers purchasing power in France, as well as supporting organic farming. The retailer also continues to expand its format offer in Poland, opening its first franchised hypermarket. Furthermore, Carrefour Italia’s expansion has reached 1,500 stores across 19 regions.   France: Carrefour fights infl...

Carrefour reports a strong performance in a challenging environment and confirms its consolidated net sales in the first half of 2022 rose 13.2% to €39,054m with like-for-like (LFL) sales up by 5.4% compared to H1 2021. Source: Carrefour Carrefour France: positive Q2 sales performance The group revealed its consolidated Q2 sales increased by 17.2% to €23,078 and LFL sales increased by ...

Last month (June 2022), Carrefour, Brazil’s leading grocery retailer, completed its acquisition of the countries’ third largest (Grupo BIG). This cemented Carrefour’s place as Brazil’s market leading grocer, with a market share close to 25%. Following my recent article ‘Carrefour consolidates its leadership in Brazil’ , I now explore some of the challenges and opportunities the acquisition ...

Carrefour announced in Paris its trialling a new initiative to reduce food waste, while also tackling inflation. Meanwhile, in Spain Carrefour-owned Supeco celebrates the launch of it 50 th store opening in the market. We also visited Carrefour Montesson, to explore how it applies refill stations throughout different product categories. Carrefour’s approach to tackling inflation and food wast...

Carrefour announced it signed an agreement to sell its 60% equity interest in Carrefour Taiwan, valued at €2 bn, to its long-term partner and co-shareholder Uni-President. However, Carrefour claims the Carrefour brand will still be present in Taiwan for the coming years and will be part of the wider network of Carrefour brand licenses in over 40 countries. Carrefour Taiwan’s network and sales ...

In March 2021, Carrefour Brazil reached an agreement to acquire Grupo BIG from Advent International and Walmart, subject to approval from Brazil’s antitrust watchdog CADE (The Administrative Council for Economic Defense). This was approved on 25 May 2022, subject to Carrefour disposing of 14 stores in anti-competitive locations. Earlier this month (7 June) the acquisition was finalised. It...

Carrefour operates over 13,000 stores in nine different markets. The Carrefour group continues to expand its operations and partners to provide quick commerce and food delivery services. Carrefour Brazil revealed it completed the acquisition of Grupo Big in Brazil. Meanwhile, Europe’s leading q-commerce Flink SE purchased Cajoo, who partners with Carrefour to supply its private label and other ex...

The region of Madrid is Spain’s most affluent, boasting per capita income of €32,000, over 35% higher than the national figure of €23,700 (in 2020). The thriving Madrid economy has created an attractive market, which continues to draw investment from nearly all the country’s largest grocers. Retailers continue to perceive the region as a key market in which to showcase their advances, in terms of...

Traditionally, a large percentage of Spanish shoppers used to get their fresh food in traditional stores and markets, buying their dry groceries in supermarkets. However, in recent years retailers have improved their fresh offer, progressively gaining share from the traditional sector. Therefore, while over 30% of fresh food is still sold through the traditional sector, this figure is steadily...