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Retail Asia18/06/2018
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Carrefour and Google have formed a strategic partnership to develop innovative online shopping solutions. The two companies say Google will contribute its technology and skills in AI, cloud computing and new consumer shopping interfaces like the Google Assistant, while Carrefour will bring its product expertise and know-how in logistics and sales. The partnership will focus […]

Retail Asia25/05/2018
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Carrefour China has opened its first-ever ‘smart supermarket’ in Shanghai in partnership with Tencent, four months after the parent company of the WeChat app bought a stake in the French retailer. Covering 4000sqm over two levels in Changning district, the new Le Marche store is connected to the Beixinjing metro station. It offers more than […]

Retail Asia24/05/2018
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Next month’s Consumer Goods Forum to be held at the Marina Bay Sands will feature a ‘who’s who’ of international retail leaders. This year marks the first time in a decade the event is being held in Asia. Running from June 12-15, it is themed Consumer Centricity in a Data-Driven World. Industry leaders including Alibaba […]

Retail Asia16/04/2018
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Carrefour Taiwan showed growth for the 13th consecutive quarter while in the rest of Asia first-quarter sales sagged for the French hypermarket operator. Taiwan’s like-for-like sales rose by 3.3 per cent. A strategic partnership formed with Tencent in China rapidly materialised, says the group, including the launch of a WeChat app. However, like-for-like sales in […]

Retail Asia07/03/2018
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French hypermarket retailer Carrefour is reaping the rewards of restructuring its Asian operations. The Carrefour Asia business has converted an operating loss of €58 million in 2016 to a return on investment of €4 million US$4.4 million) last year, according to the company’s annual results released overnight. “Carrefour is back on the offensive and investing […]

Retail Asia01/02/2018
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Three Chinese e-commerce giants led by Tencent are buying into shopping centres as part of an alliance that will help fund property magnate Wang Jianlin’s HK$30 billion (US$3.8 billion) plan to take his Dalian Wanda Group private. Jianlin describes it as the world’s biggest single alliance between the new economy and bricks-and-mortar businesses as he […]

Retail Asia12/12/2017
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French grocery giant Carrefour has opened its first store in Cameroon, expanding its African footprint. The Carrefour Market supermarket is located in the city of Douala and is operated by local partner CFAO Retail, which has stores in eight African countries. The 1430sqm Carrefour Market anchors a shopping centre which includes six other retail stores […]

Retail Asia06/12/2017
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Carrefour Taiwan has opened four more stores, three in Taipei and one in Tainan. The French hypermarket chain introduced the stores all in a space of a week, and all will be open 24/7. First up was Tainan Yu Nong at 650sqm, followed by Luzhou Guanghua (515sqm), Taipei Jinan (670sq) and Shi Lin Zhong Cheng. […]

Retail Asia23/11/2017
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This week’s Alibaba-Sun Art deal is a major step in the development of a new retail landscape in China, write Wai-chan Chan and Jacques Penhirin of Oliver Wyman. This is not a “real estate play” with Alibaba buying 446 grocery stores, but shows how serious Alibaba are in developing the “new retail” model combining the […]

Retail Asia05/05/2017
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On March 23rd 2017, Carrefour successfully opened its 27th Easy Carrefour Store in Shanghai, China. Sitting on Long Dong Avenue, the newly-opened Easy store covers an area of approximately 332 square meters with over 4,000 items. The first convenience store under Easy banner opened its door in 2004, and Carrefour China has now a total […]

Retail Asia10/04/2017
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Carrefour China has opened its 27th Easy Carrefour Store in Shanghai. On Long Dong Avenue, the 332 sqm store offers more than 4000 items. The French multinational retailer opened its first convenience store under the Easy banner in 2004. Meanwhile, Carrefour China has launched an app that allows customers to shop online, receive discount coupons, […]

Retail Asia02/04/2017
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The project One Store, One School, One Farm is designed to choose Carrefour stores, primary schools and farms to establish cooperation relations, encouraging students to participate in the practical activities and educating them for the knowledge of food safety, nutrition and anti food waste. 2000+ students, 2000+ employees from 100 Carrefour stores and farmers nationwide […]

Retail Asia07/01/2017
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Major retailer Trans Retail Indonesia will open dozens of new stores this year in a bid to attract more visits to its physical stores despite the booming online retail industry. “We will open 30 new stores under the Transmart Carrefour brand in 2017,” Transmart Carrefour corporate communications general manager Satria Hamid told on Friday. However, he declined […]

Retail Asia12/12/2016
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French retailer Carrefour has expanded its eCommerce access in China by launching online shops and apps for Suzhou and Wuxi. It already covers Beijing, Chengdu, Kunming and Shanghai with plans for further expansion. Wuhan is next on the list, expected to come on line before the end of this month. Carrefour has rolled out its […]

Retail Asia21/09/2016
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Customers of Carrefour Taiwan’s new Ping Jian store have been promised “a new shopping experience in different universe”. The store, the French retailer’s 88th in the country, features what the company describes as an “integration of three dimensions: eco-friendly, digital application and customer experience”. “Many new concepts have been implemented to create a unique shopping […]

Retail Asia03/09/2016
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Look for more, but smaller, neighborhood stores, an increase in local delivery trucks and changing store layouts as retailers accommodate aging populations, says The Silver Series IV: Retail Reconfiguration for Seniors. The report is the latest in a series of analyses from Fung Global Retail & Technology on the impact of the growing 65-and-over population […]

Retail Asia25/08/2016
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Discount seller E-mart Korea has signed an agreement to supply its private-label items to Metro China. It is introducing four items from its No Brand range, to be sold from next month. It is the first time for E-mart to export to an overseas offline store. E-mart’s private-label products already sell in Mongolia and Vietnam. […]

Retail Asia20/08/2016
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Carrefour China says it will concentrate on convenience store development for the rest of this year. The French-headquartered retailer has been losing market share in the hypermarket segment and has closed about 30 stores during the past three years. It is trying to find a new growth model for the competitive Chinese model according to […]

Retail Asia09/06/2016
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Carrefour China has opened a new distribution center is in Hongmei Town, Dongguan, Guangdong province. It says the centre will play an important role in the supply chain of Carrefour China in South China area, by forming a logistics network covering the Pearl River Delta as well as Fujian and Hainan province, which can increase […]


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