Introduction Carrefour S.A. (Carrefour) is a retail corporation located in France. Carrefour is Europe’s largest retailer, with 5,200 stores and revenues of €53.9 billion. Over the last four years they have been growing thru acquisitions, mostly outside of France. Company History Carrefour is responsible for introducing the hypermarket to Europe in 1963. A hypermarket is a mega-store, similar to that of a Wal-Mart. They started in small French towns, but by 1969 expanded to Belgium
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which still stands today, on Abdel-Aziz Street, was originally built to cater to well-heeled foreign and Egyptian customers. Since then the company has gone through various transformations opening up over 60 branches throughout the start of the 1900's. Adolf Orosdi was a Hungarian army officer, who had found refuge in the Ottoman Empire, opened a first clothing store in Galata in 1855. With the Back family, of Austrian-Hungarian descent, Orosdi and his sons began establishing similar stores elsewhere
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International Borrowing at Carrefour S.A. Briefly discuss the background of Carrefour SA and its financing practices. What are the borrowing alternatives? Carrefour S.A. is operating as a chain of hypermarkets, combining a supermarket, drugstore, discount store and gas station. Carrefour is originating from France, however, during 40 years it has expanded its operations to ten other European countries, six South and North American countries and nine Asian countries. The largest sales and profits
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unfamiliar territories there are many challenges that companies ought to overcome such as cultures, regulation, communication barriers, and so forth. Currently, Wal-mart and Carrefour are dominating in China as the foreign discount stores but they have different strategy to compete in China. Background In 1959, Carrefour was created in Southern France and became international by 1969. “It innovated with the hypermarket format in France in 1963 where it introduced the idea of one stop shopping
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Connor Matuszewski BUAD 417 29 February 2016 Carrefour S.A Case In 2002, Carrefour S.A. is the largest European retailer with total sales of 53.9 billion euros and retail outlets in 26 countries. To fund and maintain its “expansion trajectory”, Carrefour needs to raise 750 million euros through taking on debt. The company has traditionally issued debt in euros, but is considering three other options to issue a 10-year Carrefour bond. The bond would be issued at par with four possible
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A Comparative Study of Asia Strategy: Wal-Mart versus Carrefour Miao-Que Lin Fu Jen Catholic University, China. Wen-Kuei Liang Tatung University, China. Abstract Wal-Mart, the number one retailer in the world, persistently maintain three fundamental beliefs—respect everyone, total-solution service, and in search of highest quality—to shape their unique corporate culture. They insist lowest price every day, carry out total solution services, effectively control the cost of global logistics
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Carrefour S.A. Case Write-up In order to finance its ongoing expansion, Carrefour decided to issue EUR750 million 10-year bond through the eurobond market. Investment banks, like Morgan Stanley and UBS-Warburg had suggested that instead of issuing the bond with EUR, Carrefour could borrow British sterling pounds this time by taking the advantage of a temporary borrowing opportunity in the currency. Carrefour also faced three other alternatives of issuance: the bond could be issued at a coupon rate
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1 De distributie in de overnachtingssector 1.1 Verklaring van verschillende begrippen Hieronder vindt u een woordenlijst waarin specifieke vaktermen duidelijk en gestructureerd worden uitgelegd: * Distributiekanaal: een medium dat gebruikt wordt om een product of dienst beschikbaar te stellen voor de consument. * Corporate rate: prijzen (rates) voor een hotelkamer die enkel voor bedrijven van toepassing zijn, er kan onderscheid gemaakt worden tussen drie soorten corporate rates. Standard
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internationalise and so to define the right location(s) abroad in terms of institutional as well as cultural fit and success opportunities. Correspondingly, concepts like this also provide insightful information for explaining the location choices which organisations have already made. One such framework is the so called Diamond Model introduced by Michael Porter in 1990. This essay tries to determine its advantages and disadvantages as a tool for the examination of firm‟s home and host location decisions by focusing
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Carrefour and Grupo Pão de Açúcar Merger Intercultural Negotiation Rafael Campos de Oliveira November 2012 Contents Table Introduction Background Information a. Background Information of Carrefour b. Background Information of Pão de Açúcar c. Background Information of Groupe Casino 1. Situation before the negotiation 2. The proposal 3. Groupe Casino position 4. End of Negotiation 5. Future for Carrefour
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