Ĭasino Group operates across all food and non-food formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, discount stores, and wholesale stores.
It acquired GPA and Grupo Éxito in 1999, major companies in mass-market retail in Brazil and in Colombia. Ĭasino Group is the source of many innovations, such as the first distributor's brand in 1901, the first self-service store in 1948, or even the display of a sell-by date on consumer products in 1959.Īs a historical player in mass-market retail in France, the group also started to grow internationally at the end of the 90s.
It was founded on 2 August 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard under the corporate name Guichard-Perrachon & Co. Casino Group or Casino Guichard-Perrachon is a French mass-market retail group.
