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E.Leclerc

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Type
  
Cooperative

Area served
  
Worldwide

Website
  
e-leclerc.com

Founder
  
Édouard Leclerc

Revenue
  
47.3 billion EUR (2012)

Industry
  
Retail

Number of employees
  
94,000 (2010)

Headquarters
  
Île-de-France, France

Founded
  
1949, Landerneau, France

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Products
  
discount store, hypermarket, supercenter, superstore

CEO
  
Michel-Edouard Leclerc (2006–)

Subsidiaries
  
Kermene, Val Expansion SAS, Santessima

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E.Leclerc (informally simply Leclerc [ləklɛʁ]) is a French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine. E.Leclerc was established on 1 January 1948 by Édouard Leclerc. E.Leclerc currently has more than 500 locations in France and 114 stores outside of the country, as of 2012. The chain enables semi-independent stores to operate under the Leclerc brand.

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Own brand ranges come under the Marque Repère and Eco+ banners. Some larger hypermarkets have a separate entertainment/multimedia section, under the name of Espace Culturel.

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History

  • 1948: Edouard Leclerc opens the first self-service grocery store in Landerneau, Brittany
  • 1956: Start of E.Leclerc's clothing range
  • 1960: The 60th E.Leclerc opens in Issy-les-Moulineaux
  • 1969: 95 supermarkets close in order to be taken over by Intermarché
  • 1973 : Edouard Leclerc invented the Foire aux vins (wine fair) which it launches into its supermarkets
  • 1979: Leclerc creates SIPLEC (a petrol import organisation)
  • 1985: Leclerc is the first retailer to sell jewelley within supermarkets with its 'Le Manège à Bijoux' concept.
  • 1992: Leclerc opens first Spanish supermarket and starts European expansion
  • 1995: Leclerc stops giving out plastic bags for free
  • 2000: Leclerc opens first Slovenian hypermarket in Ljubljana on 7 June
  • 2002: Leclerc creates a joint-venture with Conad in Italy
  • 2007: Leclerc opens second Slovenian hypermarket in Maribor on 7 November
  • 2007: Sales reach €30 billion.

    • References

    E.Leclerc Wikipedia
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