Company Choice
I decide to talk about Carrefour; French group's retail sector. In 2009, the second global group of the industry in terms of sales behind Wal-Mart. Founded in 1959 in Annecy, it is present in Europe, South America and Asia, as well as in other areas of the world in the form of local partnership.
In 1999, the company merged with the French group Promodès, one of its main competitors, and thus became the number one European supermarkets.
The Carrefour Group has published a 2008 turnover of 87 billion euros HT. In late 2008, it had 8,006 stores and 15,430 under banners (including franchisees and partners). In 2007 it employed more than 490,000 employees worldwide, including 140,000 in France, making it the largest private employer in France and the ninth world. 1. Determine whether this firm had a serious set-back and/or drop in earnings over the last 10 years by reading its annual reports, press clippings and other information sources. Explain what happened. If nothing negative has happened, describe what