French retail giant Carrefour has told just-food that it plans to merge two of its product teams. However the group played down reports today that it is to make job cuts.
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The company said today (29 October) that it had informed its employee representatives on 24 October of plans to combine the group’s French own-label brand team of 45, with its group-level team of 60 staff.
However, a spokesperson for Carrefour denied a report in French business daily La Tribune that it planned to cut two-thirds of its workforce in the purchasing department for non-food products in Europe.
“The figure relating to a supposed two-thirds reduction in the number of employees in procurement functions does not reflect the actual situation or any defined scope,” the spokesperson told just-food.
The group said the merge will take effect on 1 January 2009 and that it has informed employee representatives it is reconsidering its commercial strategy for non-food products in France.
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