Shafique Meesaq Qayyum Sami Rasheed Zaish Mahmood Submitted to: Ms. Faryal Khan BBA IV-Section J February 10th‚ 2013 Lahore School of Economics Summary The case lists out the dilemma that Western Retail outlets (such as Wal-Mart‚ Carrefour and others) face as they enter Asian markets. The case builds on the notion that these retail outlets are not able to build on the premise of cultural differences and hence they cannot adapt themselves to the demographics of the local markets. The
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SIM 336 Strategic Management Part 1 How is Carrefour so successful in China? How is the Carrefour successful in China? From 1995‚ December Carrefour entry Chinese market opened the first store in Beijing. Now Carrefour China already had 206 stores in 64 Chinese cities‚ employing more than 58‚000 people. As many as 98 percent of the store managers and 50 percent of the regional managers are Chinese. Now Carrefour is one of the biggest Hypermarkets in china. China market is an intense competition
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1969 10 . In the past 40 years‚ Carrefour kept expanding globally and is now operating in 34 different countriessecuring its 5 Central Intelligence Agency‚ China‚2011‚ ( April 2011) 6McKinsey Quarterly‚ An Interview with the President of Carrefour China ‚ 1 March 2006‚ http://mkqpreview1.qdweb.net/article_page.aspx?ar=1799 (23 June 2011) 7 Carrefour‚ Company Website ‚ 2011‚ www.carrefour.com (June 2011) 8 Carrefour‚ Company Website ‚ 2011‚ www.carrefour
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HKU984 ALI FARHOOMAND WAL-MART IN CHINA (2012) Introduction Summer was making its picture-perfect debut in New South Wales that day in October 2011‚ but Mr Greg Foran hardly noticed. Newly hired away from his role as head of Australia’s leading supermarket chain‚ Woolworth’s Supermarket Division‚ he was set to work as a senior vice president at Wal-Mart International‚ the fastest growing division of the world’s largest retailer‚ Wal-Mart Corporation. However‚ what exactly he would be doing
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Financial Report - 3 1 Consolidated Financial Statements Management’s discussion and analysis year ended December 31‚ 2011 Management’s discussion and analysis year ended December 31‚ 2011 This is a free translation into English of the Carrefour Group’s financial report for 2011 which is issued in the French langague‚ and is provided solely for the convenience of English speaking users. Sales and earnings performance MAIN EARNINGS INDICATORS (in millions of euros) 2011
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University of Lincoln Strategic Management Essay: Case Study Carrefour Strategic Analytical and Evaluation Tools including Cultural Web‚ Generic Strategies and Stakeholder Mapping Submitted By: 11/28/2013 Strategic Management Essay Case Study Carrefour Carrefour is one of leading stores in world with a standing of second world’s largest supermarket retailer in the world and acquiring 70.5 billion US $‚ Euro market share after Wal-Mart with around US $256.3 billion market share. It is setup
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Case 1: Introduction of the Case: Abstract: Carrefour was the second largest retailer of consumer goods and groceries worldwide‚after Wal-mart. The company pioneered the concept of hypermarket in their homecountry‚ France‚ as early as 1960’s.However‚ towards late 1990’s; Carrefour saw a de-cline in their French hypermarkets owing to certain unfavorable government regula-tions and competition from hard discount stores. Carrefour introduced a series of strategic initiatives in an effort to revamp
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mass grocery retail market to rest of the world. By doing this at that time‚ based on a strategic plan that is still more-less the same in principals‚ has achieved to hold the 4th place in the specific market segment. With main competitors such Carrefour‚ WalMart and Metro‚ Tesco had 50% of its revenue coming from grocery market. Nowadays and during last years‚ Tesco has presence in 13 countries‚ including cooperation with TATA in India‚ with more than 2000 stores in Europe‚ Asia and US. From
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International Case : Carrefour — Which Way to Go? Wal-Mart’s biggest global competitor is the big French retailer Carretour‚ a firm that has hypermarkets‚ big stores offering a variety of goods. It has made large investments around the globe in Latin America and China. But not all is well as competitors taking market share its home market‚ for instance. There has been even speculation of a takeover by Wal-Mart or Tesco‚ an English chain. Mr. Barnard has been ousted after heading the company
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2013 Table of contents Page1– Table of content 2- Acknowledgement & Abstract 3-4 Introduction 5- History -Japan 6- Aeon Big acquisition of Carrefour Malaysia 7- Carrefour in Malaysia prior to Aeon Big acquisition 8- Aeon Big Vision & Mission in Malaysia 9-11 Aeon Big Hypermarket strategy after acquisition 12-13 Aeon Big SWOT outline against direct competitors
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