Sunday, September 27, 2009

Carrefour

Carrefour (Euronext: CA) is an international supermarket group, headquartered in France. Carrefour is the second largest retail group after Wal-Mart. [1]

The first Carrefour opened on June 3, 1957, in Annecy near a crossroads (carrefour in French). The group was founded by Marcel Fournier and Louis Deforey. Until now, this first outlet is Carrefour the world's smallest.

Group Carrefour hypermarket concept introduced for the first time, a large supermarket that combines department store ( "store"). They opened the first hypermarket in 1962 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris, France.

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