Cold shower for Carrefour and its main shareholders.
While the French distribution giant had just started talks to sell at a high price to the Canadian group Couche-Tard, the Minister of Economy on Wednesday evening vetoed such an operation.
"Carrefour is an essential link in the sovereignty and food security of the French, which is at stake in this operation,
" said Bruno Le Maire on France 5.
The day you go to Carrefour and there is no longer any pasta, more rice, more essentials, how do you do it?
I am not a priori in favor of the idea of Carrefour being bought by a foreign group. ”
Shortly before, the Minister of the Economy had expressed his reservations by calling Alexandre Bompard, CEO of Carrefour, as well as the two main shareholders of the French distributor, Bernard Arnault and Philippe Houzé, representative of the Moulin family on the board. group administration.
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