Focus: Carrefour Q1 sales greeted with mixed response
By Dean Best | 15 April 2011
Carrefour is a retailer regularly in the industry headlines and yesterday the French retail giant issued its first-quarter sales figures. Analyst reaction, Dean Best writes, was mixed.
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Carrefour is a retailer regularly in the industry headlines and yesterday the French retail giant issued its first-quarter sales figures. Analyst reaction, Dean Best writes, was mixed.
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