CARREFOUR STORES * The Carrefour supermarket company is set up by the Fournier, Badin and Defforey families who run a discount supermarket in Annecy. * Hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, cash & carry e-commerce. * Carrefour has all the resources to cater to the different needs of its customers – whether they live in an urban or rural environment, whether they be private or professional clients, in France or abroad. * In every store format, with different banners
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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Fages Gaspard Introduction of the company * Main address: Carrefour S.A., BP 419-16, 75769 Paris Cédex1 * 6 Avenue Raymond Poincaré, Paris 75116, France * Tel: +33 1 53 70 19 00 Fax: +33 1 53 70 86 16 Website: www.carrefour.com * Carrefour is the world’s second largest retailer in terms of sales. * Truly global player with operations in over 35 countries. * Major formats are hypermarkets, supermarkets and discount stores.
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CARREFOUR’S STRATEGY IN CHINA Study and analyze the entry and expansion strategies of Carrefour in China Introduction: The Chinese market, along with Brazil, India and Russia, is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. It is the country with the largest amount of consumers. 250 cities with population over 1 million and a steady rise of living standards… For the mass-market retailing, China offers limitless opportunities; more than for any other market segments. The
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Group Assignment Case Study – Process Analysis in Carrefour PROCESS ANALYSIS IN CARREFOUR GROUP INTRODUCTION - History of Carrefour First in Europe, Carrefour is the 2nd retailer in the world. With a presence in thirty-two countries, it makes half its sales outside France. This makes it the most international of all food retailers. The Group is concentrated on three continents: Europe (13 countries), Latin America (4 countries) and Asia (8 countries), a field of
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Carrefour case study * Entry of Carrefour in the Russian Market in june 09 * Exit 4 month later Reasons to enter the market: 1. Long- term potential 2. Company´s aim of having a presence in the BRIC markets 3. Russia´s proximity to Europe Problems: absence of opportunities to grow either organically or through acquisition Barriers of Russian market: 1. Legislative framework is highly complicated 2. Corruption is rampant at all levels 3. High start up costs
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Marketing FoundationMKT 2222 | Group Project: Carrefour | April 4th 2008 | | Group Members & Student Numbers:Fikri Fikrioglu – M00013290Mohammed Moin – M00074462Christos Andreou – M00022720Seminar Tutor: Paul GarneauSeminar Number: Seminar S03 | Table of ContentsBackground Information and Company Description of Carrefour 2The Marketing Environment 5SWOT Analysis
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Financial report : Carrefour Yi LI Yuhuan CHEN FEI XU Matthieu GRACIEUX Nicolas CHAPACOU 1 Table of Contents 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) Business Description .................................................................................................. 3 Market Summary ....................................................................................................... 5 Strategy and Competitive Positioning .........................................................................
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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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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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Carrefour Company Background Carrefour means "crossroads" in French, arose in 1959 as a partnership among two industrialists, Marcel Fournier and Louis Defforey, in Annecy which is urban area around eastern France. However Carrefour had been progressively more developed since World War two. Fournier previously had created the branch store which is Grand Magasin de Nouveautés Fournier d'Annecy and which has networks in the Casino supermarkets, Defforey was the leader of Badin-Defforey in Lagnieu
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