Content Page COVER PAGE 1 CONTENT PAGE 2 ABOUT CARREFOUR 3 FACTORS THAT IMPORTANT TO CARREFOUR 3 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING RESEARCH 11 CARREFOUR EMERGING MARKETS IN SINGAPORE 18 INTERNATIONAL TRADE BARRIERS 21 CARREFOUR MARKET-ENTRY STRATEGIES 26 REFERENCE 36 About Carrefour Over the past 40 years‚ the Carrefour group has grown to become one of the world’s leading distribution groups
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threats while expanding their global market; they featured many products like groceries‚ toys‚ furniture‚ fast food and also financial services‚ all under one roof. The first hypermarket was opened in 1963 with the help of French government. By 1973 Carrefour became world’s most global retailer with 15‚000 stores globally. When Careefour established its first hypermarket in Philadelphia US‚ and other unit in US‚ but then shut down both the store soon. The problem was some customers found the store too
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sheet‚ the Profit & Loss account and its global ratios. The first aspect that can be observed is that the Company is huge as it has a large amount of total assets - more than 62 billion dollars at the end of 2011. However‚ the total assets owned by Carrefour decreased over the last five years and this sudden decrease can be attributed to the change of strategy adopted by the Company‚ which probably tried to generate more cash by lowering the total assets and tightening their business‚ going from $ 71
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International Borrowing at Carrefour S.A. Briefly discuss the background of Carrefour SA and its financing practices. What are the borrowing alternatives? Carrefour S.A. is operating as a chain of hypermarkets‚ combining a supermarket‚ drugstore‚ discount store and gas station. Carrefour is originating from France‚ however‚ during 40 years it has expanded its operations to ten other European countries‚ six South and North American countries and nine Asian countries. The largest sales and profits
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For the world’s largest retailing company‚ Wal-Mart‚ Inc.‚ the German market was proving difficult to crack. By 2003‚ even after five years of having entered Germany‚ Wal-Mart was making losses of millions of dollars over the five-year period. When attempting to expand a business overseas there are several important areas that must be taken into account in order to give the business a fighting chance. Possibly the most important issue is to avoid ethnocentrism which is the "belief that one culture
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operations outside of its home country is considered as a multinational corporation. For this essay I have chosen to discuss about the multinational company: Carrefour. Carrefour is a French multinational company which works in the sector of retailing and which was created in 1959. Its headquarter is situated in Boulogne Billancourt‚ France. Indeed‚ Carrefour it’s one of the biggest hypermarket chains of the world competing with Wal-Mart‚ Tesco and Costco. Additionally‚ it’s qualified as a multinational company
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MARKET. -THEN POSITION THE CARREFOUR RETAIL OUTLETS. 2. Should Carrefour adopt Wal-Mart’s strategy of "low prices everyday"? What would be the advantage or disadvantage of such a strategy? [NO CARREFOUR SHOULD NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY THE WAL-MART. ADVANTAGES -it will gain some limited gain in the market entry. DISADVANTAGES -it will not be able to match the supply chain strength of wal-mart. 3. How could Carrefour differentiate itself from Wal-Mart? CARREFOUR SHOULD POSITION ITSELF AS ‘’
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Strategic marketing management Company Information Carrefour Group‚ in the past 40 years have grown to turn out to be one of the world’s leading distribution groups. Carrefour began its journey in 1959 which was established in France by the Defforey families and Fournier. The name Carrefour came into existence as shops were located on thoroughfare‚ which literally means a place where it’s convenient to shop. Carrefour hypermarket was first opened outside France in Belgium and the first
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Carrefour adopted several good strategies that contributed to their success in China. They placed a strong focus on their pricing strategies‚ choice of location‚ supplier control‚ localization‚ and their supply chain management. In order for Carrefour to reduce operational costs and enhance their product line‚ they adopted a system‚ the Global Procurement System‚ in which centers were obtained to find low cost suppliers for the company’s hypermarkets around the world. As China’s products grew
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