July 10th 2007 SECOND QUARTER 2007 SALES Group sales + 5.9% on both constant and current exchange rates - Q2 sales show again good progress across the group - Further sales momentum, taking into account a demanding base for comparison (+8.5% on constant exchange rates in Q2 2006), and a further negative impact from petrol (0.9% at Group level) - France: in a deflationary price environment, hypermarkets and supermarkets grow like for like sales ex petrol 1.8% and 0.6% respectively - Hypermarkets recorded solid growth in food (+2.2% on a like for like basis), driven by volume growth. Sales in non-food have improved (like for like of +0.9%) - Our commitment to local price leadership has meant strong deflation in the period - Against this background, the group has consolidated the market share gains it made in 2006 - Spain continues to lead other core markets - In Spain, like for likes increased by 2.7%, reflecting the successful roll out of our multi-format, single brand, strategy - Sales trends in Italy improved versus recent quarters as a result of a better adapted promotional model. We continue to focus on the strengthening of the commercial model in Belgium - Growth markets* again perform strongly - All regions contributed to 21% sales growth on constant exchange rates - New m2 focused on Growth markets - In Q2, we opened or acquired 460,000m(2), of which 80% outside our core European markets - Tactical acquisitions accounted for 1.8% growth, of which Atacadao (Brazil) accounted for 1.4%To view the full announcement paste the following link into your web browser http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0048a_-2007-7-10.pdf
Carrefour announces 2007 Second Quarter sales
| Source: Carrefour SA
Paris, France--(Marketwire - July 10, 2007) -