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Cora (hypermarket)

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Type
  
Private, SA

Key people
  
Philippe Bouriez

Website
  
cora.fr

Headquarters
  
Paris

Industry
  
Retail

Products
  
Hypermarkets

Founded
  
1974

Parent organization
  
Louis Delhaize Group

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CEO
  
Patrick Bonislawski (1 Jun 2013–)

Profiles

Cora is a retail group of hypermarkets located in France and elsewhere in Europe. Cora was founded in 1974 by the supermarket holding Louis Delhaize Group after taking over three Carrefour hypermarkets located in Belgium. These three were originally established around 1969 as a joint venture franchise between two other companies: the Carrefour Group and the Delhaize Group.

The Louis Delhaize Group owns several supermarket and hypermarket chains internationally, including Cora, Louis Delhaize, Match, Profi, Truffaut, Ecomax, Animalis, Sovena and Houra.

The name 'Cora' is borrowed from the Greek goddess Persephone (Roman: Proserpina) who is also known as Cora.

Operations around the world

As of 3 October 2013, Cora has eleven hypermarkets in Romania, four of which are in Bucharest, and nine more in Baia Mare, Constanța, Cluj-Napoca, Ploiești, Bacau and Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

References

Cora (hypermarket) Wikipedia