Carrefour Express
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| Convenience store | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 2007 (International) 2010 (France) |
| Headquarters | Évry, France |
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Number of locations
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2,429 |
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Area served
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Europe, Latin America, Asia |
| Parent | Carrefour |
| Website | express |
Carrefour Express (stylized as 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, Champion and Shopi were rebranded as Express.
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.
Belgian retail chain GB opened its first convenience store, GB Express in 1997. In 2000 Carrefour acquired GB from the GIB Froup. In 2007 all GB Express locations were rebranded as Carrefour Express.
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 stores.
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.
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. The name "Alfa" is now converted to "Carrefour Express". As of December 2010[update], there were 14 Carrefour Express stores in Indonesia.
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