Carrefour'S Sale Is Rumoured That China'S Supermarket Shuffle Year Is Ahead Of Schedule.

Carrefour has frequently fallen into a crisis of confidence since its "price tag" incident in 2011, P.

At the same time of "trouble", the French retail magnate has come out to sell the Chinese business.

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(P) recently, authoritative media reported that Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, wanted to sell its Chinese business again. This time, Carrefour was prepared to sell business in addition to mainland China and Taiwan, China.

The claim was immediately denied by Carrefour, but Carrefour did not respond explicitly to its rumour that it intended to sell its mainland business.

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< p > this is not the first rumor of Carrefour's sale.

Carrefour has been shrinking the global market since 2005, and has withdrawn from the retail market in parts of China, Hongkong, Japan, Korea, Russia, Mexico, Italy and Belgium.

In 2011, Carrefour sold all its stores in Thailand and quit Greece and Singapore in June 2012 and August respectively.

Carrefour has also closed stores in some cities in mainland China since 2011. Since then, rumors of Carrefour's plans to sell its business in mainland China have spread like wildfire in the industry.

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"P >" Carrefour doesn't want to sell it, but it's too large, overpriced, and no one can buy it all. "

An industry veteran analyzed that Carrefour's total outlets in mainland China cost more than 26 billion yuan, and it is very difficult for any retailer to swallow all of them. Tesco also has the same problem.

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P, a senior executive who was inaugurated in a foreign supermarket, once revealed that Carrefour had already started to contact buyers everywhere in the early 2011, and WAL-MART and big ROFA were unable to swallow huge Carrefour because of their high share in the Chinese market. COFCO, which is interested in the development of the whole industry chain, is one of the potential buyers.

Carrefour offered $6 billion to COFCO at the time, which was equivalent to its annual sales in 2010, but COFCO was willing to pay 3 billion dollars for the purchase price.

Since then, the industry has heard that Carrefour once contacted Huarun.

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< p > closing stores, selling and finding joint venture partners. When such news is getting more and more frequent, the reshuffle year of domestic supermarkets suddenly comes.

"I once predicted that the shuffle of China's hypermarkets would start in 2015, but I didn't expect it to come ahead of schedule."

Li Wende, general manager of the development of Auchan, is so emotional.

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