Carrefour Express

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Carrefour Express
Company typeConvenience store
IndustryRetail
Founded2007 (International)
2010 (France)
Headquarters
Évry
,
France
Number of locations
2,429
Area served
Europe, Latin America, Asia
Parent Carrefour
Website express.carrefour.fr

Carrefour Express is a convenience store chain owned and operated by French retailer Carrefour with locations in three continents. Carrefour Express was created in 2007 to consolidate all convenience stores owned by Carrefour worldwide under one name. In 2010, all convenience store operations in France, including Marché Plus, Champion and Shopi were rebranded as Express. [1]

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History

In 2007, the Carrefour Express concept was created to replace almost everywhere in the world the convenience stores owned by the Carrefour Group in locations that has small retail area. These include Champion, Norte, GB, Globi and Gima. [2]

International locations

Carrefour Express in Poland Carrefour Express, Hoza Street 29-31, Warsaw.jpg
Carrefour Express in Poland
CountryFirst storeNo. of storesRef.
Argentina2007235 [3]
Belgium2007222 [4]
Brazil2008133 [3] [5]
Cyprus20094 [6] [7] [8]
France2010452 [9]
Italy2009591 [10]
Luxembourg20143 [11]
Poland2007297 [3]
Romania200856 [12]
Spain2007120 [13]
Turkey2007189

Belgium

Belgian retail chain GB opened its first convenience store, GB express in 1997. In 2000 Carrefour acquired GB from the GIB Group. In 2007 all GB Express locations were rebranded as Carrefour Express.

France

In France, the chain's goal is to replace all convenience stores owned by Carrefour, that could not be converted to either Carrefour City or Carrefour Contact.

In December 2010, the first Carrefour Express is created in Caen, and a second in January 2011 in Poitiers, the third opened in 5th arrondissement of Paris.

In April 2013, there are 252 Carrefour Express stores in France. In August 2013, 272 stores.

Italy

In Italy the chain Dì per Dì was acquired from Promodès in 2007 and starting late 2009 were rebranded Carrefour Express as part of Carrefour's international reorganization.

Romania

Carrefour entered the Romanian market after acquiring local retail chain Artima for €52 million in October 2007, with the rebranding taking place in September 2008, nearly a year later. As of 30 December 2013, Carrefour operates 56 supermarkets in Romania. [12]

Spain

In 2007, the first Carrefour Express was created.

In February 2009 the 100th Carrefour Express opened in Spain.

Turkey

Since September 2007, Carrefour Express also operates in Turkey, locally named "CarrefourSA Express" with only one letter 's' . As of December 2011, there are a total of 189 stores, located in 37 out of the 81 provinces of Turkey.

Former locations

Colombia

There were Carrefour Express stores in Bucaramanga, Bogotá and Pasto. [14] After Carrefour's assets in Colombia were sold to Cencosud, [15] all of the Carrefour Express stores in Colombia became Metro Express. (With the stores in Bogotá later rebranding to Spid in 2021, except for Bucaramanga and Pasto)

Greece

In the spring of 2007, Carrefour Express acquired all "5' Marinopoulos" from Champion Marinopoulos. On 1 March 2017, they left the Greek market after the acquisition of Marinopoulos by Sklavenitis.

Indonesia

In January 2008, Carrefour Indonesia acquired 75 percent share of local retailer Alfa Supermarket, creating a new supermarket business chain next to the Carrefour hypermarkets in Indonesia. [16] The name "Alfa" was converted to "Carrefour Express". [17] As of 2019, there were only two Carrefour Express stores in Indonesia: one in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta and one in Meruya Ilir, West Jakarta. All of these was replaced by the Transmarket brand since 2020. These stores were the first Carrefour supermarkets in Asia.

UAE

In the summer of 2011, Carrefour MAF began a rebranding and expansion program with 17 [18] Carrefour express stores across the UAE being converted to Carrefour market outlets. [19]

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