Cooperative | |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1949 |
Founder | Édouard Leclerc |
Headquarters | Ivry-sur-Seine, France |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Products | discount store, hypermarket, supercenter, superstore |
Revenue | € 47.3 billion (2012) |
Number of employees
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94,000 (2010) |
Website | e-leclerc.com |
E.Leclerc (informally simply Leclerc French pronunciation: [ləklɛʁ]) is a French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine. E.Leclerc was established on 1 January 1948 by Édouard Leclerc. E.Leclerc currently has more than 500 locations in France and 114 stores outside of the country, as of 2012. The chain enables semi-independent stores to operate under the Leclerc brand.
Own brand ranges come under the Marque Repère and Eco+ banners. Some larger hypermarkets have a separate entertainment/multimedia section, under the name of Espace Culturel.