EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT • GENERAL o DEMOGRAPHIC • Carrefour operates in 29 countries around the world. World population is rising‚ geographic distribution of populations is shifting‚ world population is aging rapidly‚ ethnic mixes in developed countries are changing rapidly‚ and average household incomes are increasing. • The demographic environment presents both opportunities and threats for Carrefour. Increases in population size and household incomes help to expand the market in which Carrefour
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Background& History Carrefour is a French multinational retailer whose headquarter is located in France. Due to successful store models‚ it has become one of the largest supermarket chains in the world (Carrefour Group‚ 2012) and considered to be the second largest retail group after Wal-Mart (Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited‚ 2013). Carrefour operates their stores all over the world‚ especially in three major markets: Asian‚ Europe and Latin America (As figure 1 shown). Alexandre (2000)
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Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11‚ 1917 – September 28‚ 1989) was the tenth (10th) President of the Republic of the Philippines and the only president to stay in office for more than twenty years (1965 to 1986). Dubbed as the country ’s "strongman‚" he holds the distinction of being the first and only Philippine President to be re-elected in office and the last Philippine Senate President to be elected to the highest office of the land – the Philippine Presidency. He served as president from
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MARCO POLO The name Marco Polo has excited the imagination of children and adults alike for hundreds of years. This famous explorer left his home in Venice in 1271 to sail for a journey of a twenty four-year. A journey that took him where no European had been before. He went across the Middle East to Central Asia‚ Peking‚ and eventually to the palace of the strong Mongol King‚ Kublai Khan. Yet‚ when Marco returned home‚ he told the amazing stories to very few people. In the thirteenth century
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Uncle Marcos The story Uncle Marcos is about a girl named Clara and her uncle’s relationship and of Uncle Marcos’s past. Clara hasn’t seen her Uncle for two years but still remembers a perfect image of her Uncle Marcos. She retained an image of him since her childhood and every time she wants to see him she would close her eyes instead of looking at the old photograph they had in the drawing room. He was buried in the middle of the courtyard in a long black coffin. Uncle Marcos would come to
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Marco Rubio is now one of the freshest faced lieutenants of the conservative insurrection in Washington. On Tuesday 12-2-10 Rubio finished off Florida’s governor to become the state’s U.S. senator. Rubio’s victory over governor Charlie Crist was one to remember because it went down as one of the most dramatic political downfalls in the country. He will be the second Cuban-American senator. He is a member of the Republican Party. As a Hispanic Rubio is representing the nation’s biggest battleground
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Marco Polo was no doubt one of the most influential explorers in the world. His tales of the East opened the minds of the Europeans‚ and his tales were a catalyst for the Age of Exploration in Europe. His influence on geographical exploration was so pivotal that many years later Christopher Columbus used Marco Polo’s book on his voyage to the New World. Marco Polo’s book‚ The Travels of Marco Polo‚ was widely published and thousands of copies were printed in different languages. However‚ many skeptics
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Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos (September 11‚ 1917 – September 28‚ 1989) was 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer‚ member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949–1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959–1965). He was Senate President from 1963-1965. He claimed to have led a guerrilla force called Ang Maharlika in northern Luzon during the Second World War‚ although this is doubted.[1][2] As Philippine president and strongman‚
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Report 2011 - 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 81‚271 2
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Marco Polo When I was younger one of my favorite games to play in a swimming pool was “Marco Polo”. Little did I know that this famous childhood game was named after the famous explorer‚ Marco Polo himself. It is said that the reason the game was named after him was because one day Polo was traveling through China and grew very tired. He fell asleep on his horse and wondered away from the rest of his group. Later‚ he heard his group members calling his name‚ “Marco”. In return he called back to
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