In football, of which this ex-boss of Canal + sports knows no secrets, it seems that Alexandre Bompard, former CEO of Carrefour, has just performed a pretty body feint. Everyone was waiting for this native of Saint-Etienne, and son of a former president of the Greens, on the Casino file. He pretended to be interested… to finally get his hands on 60 Cora hypermarkets and 115 Match supermarkets.
The counter-attack, formalized on July 12, allows Carrefour to make up a good part of its delay on Leclerc, leader on the scoreboard of market shares in France. It was time… After three successive failures to find a gambling partner – Casino, already, in 2018, the Canadian Couche-Tard in 2020, then Auchan the year after -, Bompard’s rating was starting to fade.
The architect of the takeover of Darty by Fnac in 2016, this finance inspector had capitalized on this success to take the helm of Carrefour the following year and reach the top of the championship, the CAC 40. The acquisition of Cora and Will Match open the doors to a new transfer? His current term was due to end in May 2024. At the last general meeting, the board of directors proposed to extend it until 2026. Nearly 20% of shareholders voted against. And more than 40% of them opposed his remuneration. A “I love you, me neither” which is reminiscent of another soap opera, that of Kylian Mbappé at PSG. Without it being known yet which of the player or the club will win.