Francois Oliver leaves Carrefour

Francois Oliver, 44, the person who developed and managed the Carrefour hypermarket network on the Romanian market, will leave the company, according to data from the market. Oliver”s departure takes place after the French giant last year acquired Hyparlo, the company which owned the franchise for Carrefour hypermarkets and which managed the Romanian subsidiary. Oliver was part of the Hyparlo team and had come to Romania 7 years ago, to be in charge with operations on the local market. At the beginning of this year, a Carrefour team took a business trip to Romania and made the decision to expand by 40 hypermarkets instead of the 20 targeted, given that they could also focus on hypermarkets with a surface area of less than 8,500-10,000 square metres, that is smaller than the already existing ones. Contacted by ZF, Francois Oliver did not wish to make any comment. ZF