The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
900 - 1,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
Carrefour, the French supermarket chain, is to restructure its head offices in France through a voluntary redundancy plan involving just under 1,000 employees at the group's three head offices in France, in Massy and Évry (Essonne) and Mondeville (Calvados). In France, Carrefour employs around 85,000 people - and more than 100,000 including franchised shops. Some 10% of the integrated workforce work in one of the group's three head offices.
A previous announcement has been recorded on the ERM Database with 1,230 job cuts in 2019 (FR-Carrefour-2019)
Eurofound (2023), Carrefour, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 109148, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109148.
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