Carrefour

Carrefour S.A. (French pronunciation: ​[kaʁfuʁ]) is a French multinational retailer headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, France, in Greater Paris. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world (with 1,452 hypermarkets at the end of 2011), the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue (after Wal-Mart), and the third in profit (after Wal-Mart and Tesco[3][4]). Carrefour operates mainly in Europe, but it had made better progress in China. Carrefour means "crossroads" and "public square" in French. Previously the company head office was in Levallois-Perret, also in Greater Paris.

French operations
The chain's Carrefour Hypermarket division has its head office in Courcouronnes, Essonne, France, near Évry.

United Kingdom
Carrefour had several hypermarkets in the UK until the 1980s. They were located in Leyland, Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan), Minworth (Birmingham), Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham), Glasshoughton (near Castleford), Eastleigh (near Southampton), MetroCentre in Gateshead, Telford Shopping Centre (Shropshire), Boroughbridge (North Yorkshire), Swindon and Cribbs Causeway in Bristol. All stores were later acquired by the Dee Corporation, but continued to trade as Carrefour for some time before being converted to Gateway Superstores. Some of the old Carrefour stores in the UK are now branches of Asda, for example the Merry Hill store near Dudley, West Midlands, which opened on 1 July 1986 but was converted into a Gateway in 1988 and since 1990 has traded as an Asda.

As of 14 July 2011, a range of Carrefour's products are sold in the UK via Ocado.

Valley Country
Carrefour had a hypermarket in Valley Country, but however since October 2013 it withdrew the business.