Tag: Carrefour

• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 23:19 UTC

  Meat supply resumed to French supermarket chain stores in Brazil after apology

  

  French supermarket giant Carrefour apologized so that Brazilian meatpackers would end their boycott of the group and resume deliveries to stores nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. The measure had been adopted after the company's CEO Alexandre Bompard said last week that meat produced in the South American country did not meet European standards for which he was forced to recant.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 21:51 UTC

  Paraguay does not accept any harm to its production

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña pledged to “firmly” defend his country's meat in the face of recent statements by Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, who refused to continue selling meat from Mercosur countries.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian House Speaker says reciprocity coming up for Carrefour

  

  Brazil's Lower House Speaker Arthur Lira spoke Monday against Europe's protectionism, particularly that of France, and announced that a bill would be voted on this week providing for “economic reciprocity.” If approved, the Brazilian government would be prevented from signing any international agreements with clauses restricting the import of Brazilian products unless the signatory countries adopt equivalent environmental protection measures.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 19:38 UTC

  French supermarket chain to halt sales of Mercosur meat to boycott FTA

  

  Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard announced this week that his company would not be selling meat imported from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in a move to prevent the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union from pulling through. France's largest supermarket planned on suspending meat imports from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay “in solidarity with the agricultural sector.”

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Brazil denies racism but the Porto Alegre incident when a black man was beaten to death shows something different

  

  Emotions were running high on Saturday at the funeral of a black Brazilian man beaten to death by white security guards in an assault that sparked protests across the country.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Protests in main Brazilian cities as security guards beat to death a black man at a Carrefour supermarket

  

  More than 1,000 demonstrators attacked a Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday after security guards beat to death a Black man at the store.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 07:53 UTC

  Brazil Carrefour disastrous: despite an employee's death, body in covered and sales continue

  

  A supermarket chain in Brazil apologized for its handling of an employee's death at one of its stores, which covered the man's body with boxes and umbrellas and remained open for business.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 16:16 UTC

  Battle for majority control of Brazil’s retail industry falls through

  

  Brazilian retail tycoon Abilio Diniz has suspended plans to merge his supermarket chain Grupo Pao de Acucar with the local arm of France's Carrefour. The move comes after the Brazilian state development bank BNDES and a private fund backed out of supporting the deal.

• Monday, July 4th 2011 - 04:32 UTC

  Brazilian government conditions support for major retail chain merger

  

  BNDES bank will not put up the 2.4 billion US dollars it pledged for the merger of Brazil's biggest retailers, Grupo Pao de Acucar and France's Carrefour, unless France’s Casino is on board, bank president Luciano Coutinho said in a local magazine.