The great commercial surfaces: the Carrefour supermarkets in Brazil

Authors

  • Carlos Henrique Costa da Silva Universidade Estadual Paulista

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2003.123834

Keywords:

Comm erce, consumption, city, hipermarket, supermarket

Abstract

This article concerns about the role that the largest multinational Companies of the retail sector act and their different ways of acting in different places they work. The french company Carrefour, that works in 25 contries, has kept functioning different kind of stores, being Hipermarket the most difuse all over the world. The special proeminence that has been given to Carre four in this article relates to their different kind of opening, consolidation and expansion in the markets they have been actuating. Carre four Company has been in Brazil since 1975 and at this moment counts with 74 Hipermarkets distributed in 12 states of the countrry, mostly on the metropolis, capitals and interior biggest cities

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Author Biography

  • Carlos Henrique Costa da Silva, Universidade Estadual Paulista
    Mestrado em Geografia, área de concentração em Organização do Espaço, UNESP/Rio Claro, Integrante do NECC Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Comércio e o Consumo

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Published

2003-12-17

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2003)

Section

Articles

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SILVA, Carlos Henrique Costa da. The great commercial surfaces: the Carrefour supermarkets in Brazil. GEOUSP Espaço e Tempo (Online), São Paulo, Brasil, v. 7, n. 2, p. 89–106, 2003. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2003.123834. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/geousp/article/view/123834.. Acesso em: 15 may. 2024.