The Carrefour company is created by the Fournier and Defforey families.
Carrefour opens its first supermarket in Annecy, Haute-Savoie.
The LLC Promodis, the forerunner of Promodès, is created. The company was formed through a merger of two wholesaler families from Normandy, managed by Paul-Auguste Halley and Leonor Duval-Lemonnier.
Promodès opens its first supermarket in Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines).
Carrefour invents a new store concept: the hypermarket. The first Carrefour hypermarket opens in Sainte-Geneviève-des-bois, with a floor area of 2,500 sq.m, 12 checkouts and 400 parking spaces.
The Promodès supermarkets adopt the Champion brand name.
Carrefour opens its first hypermarket outside France, in Belgium.
