Géant Casino

For other uses, see Geant (disambiguation).
Géant Casino
Founded 1970
Headquarters Saint-Étienne, France
Products Hypermarket
Parent Groupe Casino
Website geantcasino.fr

Géant Casino (French pronunciation: [ʒeɑ̃ kɑzino]) is a hypermarket chain based in Saint-Étienne, France, part of the French retailing giant Groupe Casino.

As of February 2016, it had 120 stores in France.[1]

History

A remodeled Casino Géant hypermarket in France.
A Géant hypermarket in Narbonne, France.

Géant was opened its first hypermarket in 1970. In Dec 2015, Géant Casino had about 142 hypermarkets all over the world. The concept is, like most hypermarkets, to have all kinds of items available under one roof. A loyalty card system has been introduced by Géant, with a price discount on certain groceries. There are over two million Géant card-holders.

Géant Casino is the fifth largest hypermarket chain in the world and the fourth largest in France after Carrefour, E.Leclerc and Auchan.

Géant in different parts of the world

Country First store Stores
France France 1970 120
Martinique Martinique 1997 2
Uruguay Uruguay 1999 2
Bahrain Bahrain 2001 7
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 2005 9
Kuwait Kuwait 2005 7
Qatar Qatar 2013 1
Tunisia Tunisia 2005 1
Guadeloupe Guadeloupe 2010 1
French Guiana Guyane 2010 1

Middle East

Fu-Com joined with Groupe Casino to bring the Géant hypermarket brand to the Middle-East where Géant opened its first store in Bahrain May 2001. A store was opened in Dubai in 2005 and one in Abu Dhabi in 2015 at Yas Mall. In Qatar, Groupe Casino joined with local supermarket chain Al Meera to open a hypermarket in Hyatt Plaza, and to sell Casino products in Al Meera stores.

Closed

Visual history

1970 - 1992 1992 - 2007
(still used in Uruguay and Bahrain)
2007 - present

See also

References

  1. Géant Casino website: List of stores. Retrieved 12 April 2014
  2. Adam Jones, Elizabeth Rigby and Lucy Killgren, "Casino to sell Polish stores in deals worth €884m", Financial Times, 18 July 2006
  3. Metro AG: "METRO Group strengthens hypermarket business in Poland", Press release, 17 July 2006
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