Carrefour Group: Appointment in Brazil
25 Ottobre 2013 - 4:12PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Carrefour Group (Paris:CA) announces the appointment of Charles
Desmartis as CEO of Brepa Comércio e Participações Ltda
(BREPA), the Carrefour Group’s holding company in Brazil,
effective November 4, 2013.
In his position, Charles Desmartis will supervise all of the
Group's activities in the country:
- Carrefour Comércio e Indústria,
headed by Luiz Fazzio, which includes Carrefour hypermarkets,
Bairro supermarkets and Financial Services,
- and Atacadão, the Cash &
Carry format, headed by José Roberto Mussnich.
This organization will enable a new phase in Carrefour's
development in Brazil, marked by the renovation of the store
network and the acceleration of expansion.
With sales of close to 12.5 billion euros in 2012 and 68,000
employees, Brazil is Carrefour's second-biggest market after
France.
Carrefour opened its first store in Brazil in 1975, in the
Pinheiros district in Sao Paulo, and currently operates 102
hypermarkets and 41 supermarkets in the country. The Group also
acquired in 2007 the Atacadão Cash & Carry chain, which has
become the market leader with 93 stores spread across the
country.
Charles Desmartis, 56 years old, has been in charge of Group
Financial Control since 2011. He graduated from France’s Ecole des
Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and Stanford University. He began
his career at the French-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo
and speaks fluent Portuguese. He spent twelve years at Schlumberger
in Financial Control functions in Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona and
Paris, before being Chief Financial Officer of Axalto, Gemalto and
Europcar.
About Carrefour GroupThe world’s
second-largest retailer and the biggest in Europe, Carrefour Group
employs 357,000 people. Present in 34 countries through nearly
10,000 stores, Carrefour posted total sales under banner including
VAT of 101.3 billion euros. A multi-local, multi-format and
multi-channel retailer, Carrefour is the daily partner of more than
25 million customers in Europe, Asia and Latin America, offering
them a vast choice of products and services at the right price. For
more information: www.carrefour.com
Carrefour store network in
BrazilCarrefour Comércio e Indústria45 Bairro
supermarkets102 Carrefour hypermarkets122 drugstores
Atacadão93 stores17 wholesale stores
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