Lafayette Department Store Became The Second Largest Shareholder Of Carrefour.

< p > Moulin family, owner of GaleriesLafayette department store, French department store retailer GaleriesLafayette, announced on Monday that it has bought the 6.1% largest stake in France's largest chain retail group CarrefourSA (CARR.PA), Carrefour, through family holding company MotierSAS.

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P > CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour rose to 29.24 euros on Monday, hitting a new high for nearly three years, closing at 29.16 euros.

According to this price, MotierSAS paid 1 billion 280 million euros for 44 million 200 thousand shares of CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour shares and became the second largest shareholder of the latter.

MotierSAS said in a statement that this is a "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "long line strategy < /a" investment, showing its confidence in the growth potential of CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour.

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< p > > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > GaleriesLafayette < /a > in 2012, the Department of general merchandise sold the CasinoGuichard-PerrachonSA (CASP.PA) of the French supermarket chain to the CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour rival (CASP.PA). The share price was less than 1 billion 180 million, and in 2013, the domestic competitor, Paris spring department store and the British department store retailer FOK Lai Sha department store, respectively, were trying to acquire the Qatar consortium and the Chinese three group respectively.

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< p > investing in CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour means that the Moulin family curve as MonoprixSA co founder has returned to the chain supermarket industry.

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< p > Bloomberg said according to internal information that MotierSAS will not increase its CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour in the future, and the acquisition will not affect the expansion plan of GaleriesLafayette's department store.

MotierSAS emphasizes that it will continue to focus on the core department store business and will invest the necessary resources in the coming years.

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"P > CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour dropped 2.30% to 28.49 euros in early trading on Tuesday, with a market capitalization of about 20 billion euros.

The consortium of the richest France, the world's largest luxury group, LVMHMo tHennessyLouisVuittonSA LVMH.PA, MOET & CHANDON Hennessy LV Group Chairman BernardArnault and private equity fund ColonyCapitalLLC, is the largest shareholder of CarrefourSA (CARR.PA) Carrefour. As of the end of September 2013, a total of 14.77% shares and 20.06% of the voting rights were jointly controlled.

The shareholding ratio of BernardArnault family holding company GroupeArnaultSA and olonyCapitalLLC and BluePartners is 8.88% and 5.89% respectively.

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