Carrefour news

27 November 2023
During our recent trip to Taipei, we explored the strategies adopted by retailers to thrive in the current economic challenges. Over the past two years, Taiwan has witnessed several significant mergers and acquisitions, including PX Mart acquiring RT Mart and Uni-President taking over Carrefour Taiwan. In this article, we focus on three retailers representing the convenience, supermarket, and hyp...
27 October 2023
There has been a flurry of ups and downs across the Polish retailer landscape. Biedronka a discounter with plans to dominate via an aggressive expansion plan Biedronka dominates the discounter space in Poland with a 91% penetration across the market and 3473 stores as of September 2023. The parent group, Jeronimo Martins, has announced the expansion of Biedronka across Slovenia - with ...
27 October 2023
Carrefour reports a strong performance in some challenging environments. Furthermore, Carrefour Poland demonstrates how affective its commitments to reducing food waste have proven to be. Carrefour’s Q3 performance The retailer confirms its sales in Q3 2023 reached €23,629m an increase of 6.9%, with like-for-like (LFL) sales growing by 9%, compared to Q3 2022. Source: Carrefour ...
25 October 2023
We recently visited Madrid, to explore what the city offers and understand how retailers are evolving to help build shopper confidence as inflation and the cost-of-living continues to manifest uncertainty. In this article, we reveal three must see stores and explain why you need to see them. 1. Carrefour hypermarket, Carr.de Madrid a Burgos, A1 28108 In Spain, Carrefour is one of the lea...
18 October 2023
We highlight seven takeaways from our recent trip to the Warsaw. Auchan takes on Zabka with its first autonomous store Auchan has teamed up with Israel based tech company Trigo to produce the retailer’s first autonomous store, Auchan Go. The store combines camera technology and scales integrated into the shelving to monitor items selected by shoppers, after they have authorised a payment...
02 October 2023
In France, we’ve seen several tactics to address multiple rising issues of theft and shrinkflation in the market. Explore how Leclerc is trialling anti-theft technology while Carrefour targets suppliers with its price warning labels. Leclerc trials anti-theft technology French market leader Leclerc partners with Knap to test 40 connected shopping trolleys in its hypermarket based in La Coll...
26 September 2023
Keep up to date with the latest movements in Spain. In a price sensitive market retailers continue to invest in price and promotions strategies, while Carrefour makes strategic moves to boost its presence in the market as well as Mercadona boosting its online channel. 1. Carrefour Spain acquires 47 SuperCor stores Carrefour Spain has reached an agreement with El Corte Ingles to acquire 47 S...
05 September 2023
Carrefour revealed it appointed a new executive director in France. Meanwhile, the retailer is enhancing the shopping experience in Argentina and Brazil, featuring a new autonomous store and its new Super Nova generation 2 store concept. Separately, in Poland, Carrefour continues to focus on support shoppers purchasing power, by offering a new discount scheme throughout September. Carrefour ap...
31 July 2023
Q2 2023 results have been posted for Walmart, Casino Group, Carrefour and Chedraui. A sales rise in June boosted Walmart Mexico’s Q2 net profit Walmart in Mexico and Central America reported a net profit of $668mn in Q2 2023, +5% year-on-year (YoY), boosted by slightly higher sales in June. Despite growth, earnings were slightly behind those forecasted. Same-store sales increased 8.5% in Me...
27 July 2023
Carrefour revealed a strong group performance, net sales in H1 2023 reached €40.7 bn an increase of 12.4%, with like-for-like (LFL) sales growing by 11.2%, compared to H1 2022. Carrefour continues to progress with its 2026 strategy plan, against a backdrop of record food inflation in Europe. Key highlights for the group include the sale of private label products continued to grow, which increa...