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RETAIL INNOVATIONS CASE STUDY Carrefour: Hypermarket Reinvention Carrefour’s approach to revitalizing its hypermarket format and key action points for retailers looking to improve their large format store sales Reference Code: CM00028-002 Publication Date: December 2010 OVERVIEW Summary Verdict’s Retail Innovations case studies are new for 2010. Each profile provides an evaluation of a company that stands out due to a set of unique characteristics‚ or a particular strategic initiative
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......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2.0 Company Overview of Carrefour ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 2.1 Company Portrait ....................
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Carrefour Introduction Carrefour one of the biggest retailers in Europe‚ which is working with the shopping area and discounters in the world. The company is headquartered in Paris‚ France.) The company started in France in 1959 and opened its first supermarket in 1960. The first major changes and expansions‚ which that it went through‚ were between the 70s and the 80s‚ a period that saw the stocks of the company being floated in 1970 in the Paris bourse. In 1970 the company presented in stock
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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
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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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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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porter The power of competitors : Carrefour undergoes a competion pressure because of the presence of giant of rtailed companies. Indeed‚ regarding intrenational companies Auchan holded 12% of market shares in 2012‚ followed by Walmart with 11‚2% and Carrefour with 8‚1%. The‚ the local distributors like Shangai Bailin dominate the Chinese market. Indirect competitors : hard discount supermarket such as DIA. Before this brand belonged to Carrefour but since 2012‚ Dia is a independent brand
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powerfully motivate employees to work and share knowledge and adopt a play-safe strategy in internationalization. As for the number two player—Carrefour‚ they provide customers with one-stop shopping‚ lowest price‚ fresh products‚ self-served shopping in a hypermarket with free parking lots. In contrast to Wal-Mart’s internationalization strategy‚ Carrefour expands to foreign markets faster and more flexible than their counterpart. Wal-Mart founded by Sam Walton adopted circumventing strategy
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Task 1a Occasion and benefit segmentation There are many behavioural characteristics of buyers and consumers and one way to segment these groups is to associate their purchasing habits with Occasional and benefit segmentation. Occasion Segmentation In its simplest form Occasion segmentation is the process of dividing a consumer group or groups into groups according to an occasion or occasions when consumers purchase or use a product or service. For example some major religious/cultural occasions
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