Carrefour

Both stores closed in 1993. The company is named after 'Evis', 'Evisu' or 'Ebisu' the buddhist god of money. Carrefour had hypermarkets in Philadelphia and Berlin, New Jersey for about five years. The Evisu logo (which was created by Yamane) is a stylized gull, and is still hand-painted onto some styles of jean, as it was by Yamane when the company was first founded. Both stores were sold to Gateway (later Somerfield) and have changed hands again, now being Asda Wal-Mart supercentre hypermarkets. The brand was originally called Evis, but was changed to Evisu in 1991. These were located at Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and in Bristol. Sometimes referred to as "Rolls Royce of Jeans", the brand was founded in 1988 in Osaka, Japan by Hidehiko Yamane.

Carrefour had two hypermarkets in the UK until the 1980s. Evisu, a Japanese clothing company that specializes in producing unique demin wear through the use of vintage looms, and other labour-intensive methods with as little use of modern machinery as possible. Carrefour had opened its first store in 1995 in Mexico. In March 2005, Carrefour sold its 29 hypermarkets in Mexico to Chedraui. In 2005, Carrefour sold its 8 hypermarkets.

Carrefour previously had stores in Tsuen Wan and Heng Fa Chuen. In the late 1990's, Carrefour moved out of Hong Kong after complaints from manufacturers about selling products (especially electronics) at prices far below those its competitors had. Carrefour had opened its first store in 1998 in Czech Republic and in 2000 in Slovakia. Tesco paid 57.4 million euros as well as its stores in Taiwan.

In September 2005, Carrefour sold to Tesco (the biggest UK retailer) 11 stores in the Czech Republic and four in Slovakia.
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. It operates mainly in the European Union, Brazil and Argentina, but also has shops in North Africa and Asia. However according to others, this is only the delirium of the over-inflated ego of a borderline executive. According to some this a Francophone line of thought that the natural instinct of capitalists is never to risk a profit margin by undermining the power of brands, according to other it was perceived easier at that time in France to beat the competition with political discurses than with a competitive advantage, according to a third group of people this was the result of a paranoïd vision of the political situation in many French executives minds.

Jean Mothes, one of the executives of Perrier, wrote in "Investir" that Carrefour did much more to accelerate the swap to a socialist-led government than Edmond Maire, Georges Marchais, François Mitterrand and Georges Séguy joined together. At the time this marketing strategy was considered by some in France to be "anti-capitalist". These Produits libres, Free Products, caused a sensation. In April 1976 Carrefour removed branding from around fifty basic food products (oil, biscuits, milk, pastes...) and sold them at substantially lower prices.

They opened the first hypermarket in 1962 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, near Paris in France. The Carrefour group pioneered the concept of a hypermarket: a large supermarket combined with a department store ("all under the same roof"). Their slogan was "No parking, no business.". Marcel Fournier and Louis Defforey had assisted several seminars in the United States animated by "The Pope of modern distribution" Bernardo Trujillo (who had a major influence on other famous French executive like Edouard Leclerc (E.Leclerc), Gérard Mulliez (Auchan), Paul Dubrulle (Accor), and Gérard Pélisson (Accor)).

In 1999 it merged with Promodès, one of his major competitors on the French market. The group was created by Marcel Fournier and Louis Defforey and grew into a network from this first sale's point. As of today, this is the smallest Carrefour store in the world. The first Carrefour store opened on June 3, 1957, in the suburbs of Annecy near a crossroads (carrefour in French).

[1]. It is the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue and sales figures after Wal-Mart. Carrefour SA (Euronext: CA) is an international supermarket group, headquartered in France, with a global network of supermarkets. For the city, see Carrefour, Haiti..

This article is about Carrefour, the company. Carrefour is leader in Europe. Carrefour also operates in the United Arab Emirates in a joint venture with Majid al Futtaim [2]. Carrefour was the first international retailer to establish a presence in Asia in 1989, with a presence in 7 countries.