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Carrefour is an internationally active French enterprise in the retail trade. Carrefour is world-wide the largest retail business of Europe and after whale Mart the second largest. The enterprise is noted since 1970 at that Paris stock exchange.

Enterprise

The enterprise operates over 10.300 branches in numerous countries and employs 420,000 coworkers. The conversion amounted to at the end of of 2003 " 88.7 billion.

Carrefour was created in the year 1959. In the year 1963 Carrefour developed the concept of the The enterprise expanded 1969 to Belgium, 1973 to Spain and 1975 to Brazil. Today the enterprise operates branches in numerous countries. In the year 1999 Carrefour and fused.

There are essentially the following shop types:

: Very large supermarkets (hypermarkets) with 5.000 to 20,000 square meters of shop surface and with up to 70.000 articles.
: Supermarkets with 1.000 to 2,000 square meters of shop surface.
Harddiscounter: Smaller business with 200 to 800 square meters of shop surface, which basic goods for the daily need offer for favourable prices.

Marks

The following marks belong to the Carrefour group:

8 huit: 800 smaller fresh market branches in France with 70 to 400 square meters size with numerous Convenience products.
Carrefour: 730 very large supermarkets with a surface of up to 20,000 square meters and up to 70.000 articles in the assortment.
Champion: Over 1.000 supermarkets with approximately 1,500 square meters in France, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Argentina and Brazil.
Dia.: 3,700 Harddiscount branches with approximately 500 to 770 square meters of sales area in Spain, Greece, Argentina, in Turkey and in Brazil. Up to 2.000 articles are offered. Some branches are operated by Franchise takers.
diperdi: Supermarkets in Italy
OD: 459 Harddiscounting branches with 300 to 1,000 square meters in France.
GB: 271 supermarkets in Belgium
Gs: 371 supermarkets in Italy.
Norte: 141 supermarkets in Argentina.
Prodirect: Delivery service for the catering trade.
Promocash: 130 Cash&Carry markets for dealers and catering trade in France.
Proxi: 1.310 very small supermarkets with 80 to 200 square meters.
Shopi: 600 smaller supermarkets in France with a surface of 400 to 900 square meters. Are offered up to 6.500 articles, of it 3,500 fresh products and 1,000 self-branded articles.