The largest European retailer Carrefour could not sell a business in Russia

The French network Carrefour, the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world, ceased activities in Russia. According to Kommersant, the premises of its four hypermarkets are occupied by competitors - O'Kay, Auchan and OBI. Carrefour announced the departure from Russia last October, explaining this by the inability to become the leader of the local market in a short and medium term.

For the sale of Karfur Rus LLC, the French hired an investment bank Lazard. The proposal included the sale of lease agreements and other property of two current stores in Moscow and Krasnodar, as well as two preliminary lease agreements in the Moscow shopping center "River Mall" and the Lipetsk shopping center "Europe". While the buyer is not found, Carrefour hypermarkets had to work.

But these stores were closed, and the owners of the premises on their own rented them for other networks. According to the representative of the store "stores", at the beginning of 2010 he stopped working Carrefour in Filion, German OBI, selling goods for the repair and arrangement of the house, and the French grocery retailer Auchan, will take its place. Martin Khubman, Director of Expansion and Construction of OSCI RUSSIA, confirmed that his company rented a premises on the second floor, which previously occupied Carrefour, the contract was signed in February with the owner of Filion. Auchan Russia spokeswoman Maria Kurnosova noted that "while the contract with the" Felion "has not been signed."

The Krasnodar Carrefour hypermarket would be closed to an inventory for about two weeks. After opening the shelf, 90 percent were empty, but there were no delays in payments. Agreements on the lease of this premises have been reached with the St. Petersburg retailer O`kei. The contract with Carrefour was signed for only 11 months - it expires in August, the agreement was prepared for 30 years, but did not have time to sign it, says Stanislav Lavrukhin, development director of NT Computer.

The Lipetsk hypermarket will also go about Kay, says a senior employee of the Europa shopping center. The main owner of Europe, Vladimir Chebotarev, said that a ten -year contract with Carfur Rus was terminated. The new agreement with Kay was signed the other day, the source close to it said. The spokesman for O`key Maria Radina does not call the addresses of future chain stores.