Spanish manager to replace Oliver at Carrefour

Carrefour Romania will be run by Jacobo Caller Celestino, one of the managers of Carrefour Spain, starting this month, after Francois Oliver was general manager of the company for the last seven years. “After seven years of professional activity in Romania, exclusively at Carrefour, I have now decided to move on to something new. Having worked for 18 years for Hyparlo Group, after it was sold to Carrefour, in March this year, I decided to leave the group and take on new challenges,” stated FranA?ois Oliver. At the end of last year, Carrefour acquired control of Hyparlo for some 320 million euros; it is its largest franchisee and the company, which managed the hypermarkets on the Romanian market. Carrefour also launched a tender offer to take over the rest of the shares, which led it to own almost 94% in Hyparlo directly and indirectly. At the beginning of this year, a Carrefour team (which, according to the latest information, included the future general manager Jacobo Caller Celestino) came on a visit to Romania and made the decision to expand by 40 units instead of the initial 20, given that they could also settle for hypermarkets covering a surface smaller than 8,500-10,000 square metres of the current outlets. ZF