Auchan
Data: Worldwide
- Headquarters: France
- Top Executive: Alain Caparros
- Corporate Stores (global): 2,562 est.
- Sales in $ Billions (USD): 50.218
- Countries of Operations:
Angola, China, France, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Poland, Taiwan, Luxembourg
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SN's Top 25 Worldwide Food Retailers for 2008
The list is ranked by net sales of companies tracked by PlanetRetail.
World Retail Conference: Carrefour Sees Strength in Unified Banner
Over the past two years, France-based retailer Carrefour has been implementing a single-brand strategy to place it in a stronger position for the future and to help it get through what its leader describes as the most challenging period for a generation. Speaking at the World Retail Congress, Jose Luis Duran, chief executive officer at Carrefour, the world's second-largest food
Format Specialization Proliferates Here and Abroad
As has been noted in several recent news articles in SN, and in this space, a quiet but profound change in how food distribution companies present to consumers is well under way. The change is that retailers are moving away from the mass-market approach. From the inception of the supermarket concept and continuing to recent time, the supermarket was presented as a large shopping venue to which shoppers
Auchan Adds Two New Concepts in France
LONDON Fierce competition in the French retail market has led Auchan to create two new innovative store concepts, which are enabling it to fight off the threat from the hard discounters in the grocery area and to meet consumer demands for a high-value/low-cost proposition in the nonfood arena. Andre Tordjman, director of the new concepts group at Auchan, said the first concept he helped recently develop
Retailers Propel Growth by Global Expansion
The pace of global food retailing for the Top 25 players picked up in 2006, with companies continuing to rationalize market strengths. Wal-Mart Stores, the leader of the pack, pulled out of Germany and South Korea last year, unable to satisfy localized tastes and cultures, while shoring up interests in Latin America and Japan. France's Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, also succumbed
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