The distributor Carrefour, whose general director, Alexandre Bompard, had announced that French stores would not sell meat from Mercosur, regretted on Tuesday that this “was perceived as a questioning of the [son] association with Brazilian agriculture.
He noted that his “declaration of support for the French agricultural world made last Wednesday in relation to the free trade agreement with Mercosur sparked disagreements in Brazil, which is [leur] responsibility to appease.
They call for a boycott of Carrefour stores in Brazil
Alexandre Bompard had written on Wednesday to the French majority agricultural union FNSEA telling him that the supermarket chain “will not sell Mercosur meat” in France, a letter also published on its various social networks. In this letter, the manager mentions the “risk of spillage into the French market of meat production that does not meet its requirements and standards” and assures that his company is committed to “not marketing any meat from Mercosur.”
This announcement caused outrage in Brazil, where the governor of the state of Mato Grosso – an agricultural region – launched a call to boycott Carrefour stores in Brazilian territory.
Carrefour has just over 305,000 employees in the eight countries in which it operates directly (France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Poland, Brazil and Argentina), and in 2023 it reached a turnover of almost 93 billion euros. Of this total, 21.4 billion or 23% were manufactured in Brazil.
Source: BFM TV
