Carrefour

Carrefour is Europe's largest retailer and the world's second largest retail chain after Wal-Mart. Carrefour pioneered the hypermarket business and was founded in 1958 with its headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. A joint consortium consisting of Bernard Arnault, chairman of Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, and Colony Capital LLC, a private equity fund, is Carrefour's largest shareholder, with Motier SAS, of the Moulin family, owners of Galeries Lafayette, as its second largest shareholder. in the 2013 Fortune Fortune 500, Carrefour was ranked 59th.