Who owns Carrefour Market?

Carrefour Market is a French supermarket chain created in 2007, owned by the international retail group Carrefour, and has currently stores in France and several other countries, see below . Carrefour Market stores generally range from 1000 m 2 to 4000 m 2 .

Who is the CEO of Carrefour?

Georges Plassat is the chairman and CEO of the company. The group of Carrefour was the first in itself to open a hypermarket in Europe. The first supermarket was opened in France in 1968. In 1976, the company launched a private product line of 50 food stuffs including milk, biscuits and pasta.

Who founded the Carrefour Group?

The group was created in 1958 by Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey, who attended and were influenced by several seminars in the United States led by "the Pope of retail", Bernardo Trujillo . The Carrefour group was the first in Europe to open a hypermarket: a large supermarket and a department store under the same roof.