| |CASE STUDY: CARREFOUR- OPPORTUNITIES IN MEXICO | |SUBMITTED TO: MR. RAJESH KOCHHAR | |(COURSE TUTOR) | SUBMITTED BY ISHU GUPTA 80025 FM INTRODUCTION: Company Background: • Carrefour founded in 1960 started the concept of vast new stores popularly referred
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Carrefour background information Carrefour is an international retail chain with its headquarters located in Levallois-Perret‚ France. Carrefour operates mainly in the European Union‚ South America‚ East Asia and Northern Africa. It is currently the number 1 retail group in Europe and number 2 retail group worldwide in terms of revenue after Wal-Mart. Carrefour has 12 547 stores‚ 456 295 employees in 29 countries worldwide. Carrefour’s first store was opened in 1960‚ in Annecy‚ France and
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Carrefour was started in Paris‚ France by the Fournier and Deoffrey families in 1959. In 1960‚ the company opened its first supermarket‚ followed by the opening of the first Carrefour hypermarket in Sainte-Genevive-des-bois in 1963. In 1969‚ the opening of the first Carrefour store in Belgium marked the beginning of Carrefour’s international expansion. Between 1970 and 1980‚ the company went through a number of changes and expansions. In 1970‚ the company’s stock was floated on the Paris Bourse
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barriers to entry Difficult and confusing government regulation Problem Statement 1. Carrefour failed in creating brand recognition and familiarity within Russia. 2. Carrefour did not allow ample time to gain the expected market share in Russia. 3. Carrefour’s first three store locations in Russia were not in ideal areas. Problem Analysis To establish a loyal following of customers and increase market share‚ Carrefour needed to develop brand recognition within Russia in a very short time. Since the
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF CARREFOUR ----------------------- Daniel Bernard CEO and Chairman of Carrefour Daniel Bernard CFO of Carrefour Bruce Johnson Director of Organization and Systems William Andersen Director of Merchandise and Marketing Joel Saveuse Director of Europe Zone Philippe Jarry Director of America Zone René Brillet Director of Asia Zone Expanded Committee Javier Campo Director of DIA International
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vision is for Tesco to be most highly valued by the customers we serve‚ the communiAes in which we operate‚ our loyal and commiCed staff and our shareholders; to be a growth company; a modern and innovaAve company and winning locally‚ applying our skills globally. TESCO OperaAng Model
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This assignment requires us to select a retail store in Malaysia and write a report that covers all the significant areas in retailing. Our group has agreed to choose Tesco Extra Ampang as the retail store for this assignment because Tesco is a well-known retail store in Malaysia. When people mentioned about hypermarkets in Malaysia‚ Tesco is surely to be the former one that comes into our mind. We do believe that by choosing a retail store that we have experienced with would facilitate the process of
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Carrefour S.A. is a large multinational corporation that aims to issue EUR 750 million worth of debt. Consequently‚ Carrefour must decide the market in which it wants to place its bonds. The company had historically financed growth using securities denominated in the currency of its business operations. However‚ Carrefour’s investment banks‚ Morgan Stanley and UBS-Warburg‚ recently recommended borrowing in British pounds sterling to take advantage of a borrowing opportunity in that currency
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Overview of Company Tesco Public Listed Company is an international supermarket chain where is located in United Kingdom and the founder of Tesco was Jack Cohen. It is not only the largest retailer in United Kingdom as well as international. Basically‚ Tesco is specialising in fast moving consumer good. It is selling food and non-food products. Besides that‚ Tesco started to make a breakthrough by opening more companies in 1994. Subsequently‚ in the year ending February 2005 its international operations
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