The CEO of Carrefour Alexandre Bompard, responded on Wednesday to the controversies around the presence of Carrefour in Israel through a franchisee by insisting on “the strict neutrality” of the group in the conflict in the conflict in the Middle East, and denouncing “missing news” in the alleged presence of Carrefour in the occupied territories. “Carrefour has strict political neutrality in this region, especially because we have more than 55,000 people who work in the Middle East in our franchisees,” Alexandre Bompard insisted, in response to the issue of a CGT trade unionist.
Flistoring “Boicot called” in “News Fake News”, the CEO of Carrefour, said that “there has never been and that there will never be Carrefour stores in an occupied territory”, specifying that it was “prohibited” in “franchise contracts” that Carrefour can sign abroad.
The opening of 50 stores in Israel announced two years ago
The French distributor announced in March 2022 his arrival in Israel through a franchise association with the Israeli group Electra Consumer Products and his subsidiary Yenot Bitan. In May 2023, Alexandre Bompard went to Raanana, in the Tel Aviv suburbs, to inaugurate a hypermarket under the Carrefour brand.
The opening of 50 stores in Israel under this brand had been announced on this occasion, and in a video filmed in front of a Carrefour brand, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had praised this as “excellent news for the citizens of Israel.”
Source: BFM TV
