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To truly change the lives of its customers, Auchan Retail decided to change its retail approach. Over the last few months, pilot stores in every country have been testing the shopping experience of the future. The result of this is the lifestore, which has already been rolled out in Jiaxing city in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, in Turin and, since 28 May 2019, at the Cloche d’Or centre in Luxembourg.

Auchan Retail has today signed with Conad, the Italian cooperative retail group, the sale of almost all the activities of Auchan Retail Italia.

As a campaigner for good, healthy and local, Auchan Retail is using blockchain technology to improve the traceability of the products along its supply chains. The initial testing in Vietnam, alongside Te-Food, a German start-up, has proved to be a success. It is now being rolled out to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Senegal. From seed to plate, information on all stages of a product’s life is now available to consumers in a fully transparent manner.

Fully in line with the commitments made at the government’s national Food Summit, Auchan Retail, Casino group and Schiever announce the creation of common supply channels with the farming world. The first specific supply channel will be for private label brands of free range eggs for the three companies. Horizon, a “new generation” central purchasing platform backed by Auchan Retail, Casino group, Dia, Metro and Schiever, is thus materialising its commitments made at its launch in July 2018.

The AUCHAN KIDS Christmas App has just been released in France and is soon to be released in 7 other countries (Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Italy and Portugal).

Edgard Bonte appointed Chairman

2018 Half-year results Auchan Holding press release

The new generation Horizon International service platform, formed in June this year by Auchan Retail, Casino Group and METRO, has a new member from 30 August: international group DIA. This addition underpins Horizon International’s outward-looking ambitions, reinforces its international dimension and makes it a top tier international alliance.

Auchan Retail, Casino Group, METRO and Schiever Group announce their cooperation in purchasing, internationally and in France, and build a set of next generation purchasing platforms called “Horizon”