How work a franchise

1- Overview Carrefour Proximité franchise

2 Three kinds of franchise

3- The support

Concepts adapted to customer expectations Products proposed in the best value for

money Services and operational teams are

dedicated to transmit them their know-how

• Carrefour Contact• Carrefour City• Carrefour Express• Carrefour Montagne

Size of stores Annual sales per store

Number of employees per store

Number of store

Minimum capital investment

From 90 to 900 m²

From 900K€ to 10 M€

From 3 to 25 1,722 7,5K€ in lease management80K€ until 200K€ in investor

Join the number 1 of the food’s franchise

Overview Carrefour proximité franchise

The franchisees of Carrefour Proximité benefit from all team assets of the group

How work a franchise

1- Overview Carrefour Proximité franchise

2 Three kinds of franchise

3- The support

Three kinds of franchise

The goal: Promote skills and entrepreneurship

Franchisee

Business manager and owner

Lease management

To become owner

Junior evolving

The social ladder

Unique concep

t in France

Franchisee

The strenghts to take up this challenge

•Have the soul of a storekeeper•Be attracted by the food retailing•Be a good administrator•Possess capacities of organization, management and a sense developed by the service•Make a commitment in the life of the network

To acquire his own franchised shop, a minimum financial contribution of 50 K€ is necessary. This allows to acquire a business of closeness of the network Carrefour.

Lease management

This plan allows to the lease managers to rent and manage a stock in trade that belongs to the Carrefour Proximité’s sign.

Later 3 - 4 years of exploitation as lease manager, you will have established the necessary contribution to become an owner of a franchised store.

This plan allows a candidate for the franchise with a minimum contribution of 7,500€ and presenting the required qualities, to become a business manager.

Junior evolving

To enhance the professionalism of our franchise's teams, we developed an internal training dedicated to successful and ambitious assistants who envisage forward to become a business manager.

This training, combining theoretical courses and practical experience in store, is intended for assistants who work since minimum 1 year.

The program includes 2 days of training a month distributed over two years. It deals with jobs, sales management, customer relationship and management. All the aspects of the convenience store are approached.At the same time, the assistant is supported in his project by his franchisee who take the guardian's role.

At the end of this training, you will have all the skills to apply for the franchise.

Strengh’s request

We look for single people or in couple, dynamic and autonomous, ready to respecting the concept and the know-how who make our success.If you recognize yourselves in the profile of a franchisee, contact us!.

Have the soul of a storekeeper, To be sensitive to fresh products, To be good administrator, Possess capacities of organization a developed sense of service

How work a franchise

1- Overview Carrefour Proximité franchise

2 Three kinds of franchise

3- The support

The support

We advise you and support you in your corporate development plan, and about 800 professionals of the distribution stores can help you at any time.

The development service

Our teams, women and men from real estate’s world, are the experts of all our commercial establishment. The main rule: the location

Person in charge Development: the real estate expert of your project.

According to every sign concept, they bring you their real field knowledge by an analysis of the site and a personalized market study.

Real advisers, they ensure the negotiations of land deal and administrative (co-ownerships, requests of town planning, police of brand, authorization of opening) to make of every project of creation a success

They also intervene on the life of the network by diagnosing the capacities of zoom capability or the transfer of the existing stores.

The financing

Sofinedis: a financial expert to your service

We support you in the creation of your company, the study and the editing of the financial files as well as the negotiation with banks.

Within the framework of an investment, we offer you the possibility of resorting to Sofinedis (Finance company for the Expansion of the Distribution) which can negotiate directly with banks.

This Financial institution of the Carrefour Group, specialized in the services and financial products, will help you and will advise you in your research for financing and in the management of your flows of exploitation.

The technical service

Technical Person in charge: the guarantor of your project.

In permanent relation with stores, architects, administrations and our partner companies of the technical building, the persons in charge of every Carrefour Proximité region become attached to the everyday life to coordinate work sites of construction and maintenance of the park. Under the aegis of the Direction of the Development, the experts participate in the follow-up of the projects.

Of the establishment of a feasibility study at the end of the work, every technical person in charge insures the steps of administrative requests (building permit, demolition permit, allowed to fit out, statements of the beginning and of the end of construction site work).

They issue calls for tender and negotiate the prices by selecting the best companies in the best costs

The training

And to develop your skills throughout your operation, you will take advantage, as well as your teams, of an internal in-service training leaning on a diagnosis of your needs upstream for a better performance.

So that the handling of your store is made in the best conditions and according to your course, we shall train you in our tools, our specific processes and you can discover in our stores schools certain traditional shelves as the butcher's shop, the fruits and the vegetables …

This training is free. We shall propose you that this training is indemnified within the framework of a contract of internship; besides, we assure a partial coverage of your costs of transport and catering.

Merchandising offer

The marketing department develops the assortments of products, rates and the plans of establishment according to the commercial policies defined by the managements of brands to optimize the profits of your outlet.

You take advantage of the purchasing power of the Carrefour Group by supplying you with our warehouses and with our referenced suppliers.

Promotion

Our teams of promotion take care of you!

To allow to increase the fame of our brands, we adapt our promotion plans to the concept of every sign (media promotion, leaflet and advertisement on the sales location , without forgetting the events operations and the loyalty).

Need for a support to draft a contract or solve a dispute with one of your employees? No panic, the service social management is there to inform you, advise you and assist you by telephone on all the questions touching the management of your staff and the labor law.

Within the human resources of Carrefour Proximité France, the service social management supplies by telephone advice and assistance on all the subjects touching the labor law.

In every region, the service is insured by a person in charge and an assistant.

Its main missions are the help to the writing of contracts of employment and amendments, as well as the research for legislative texts or for decision of jurisprudence to answer all your questioning, in particular when you are confronted with a problem with one of your employees: absences without a proper justification

Social management

Once every two months, a " social flash " is sent by mail to the franchisees: it is about a concrete and practical newsletter which reminds main rules in labor law and makes a point on the legislative and case law current events.

Personalised support

A monthly account of management also allows you to follow the results of your company.

The Franchise Adviser is your privileged interlocutor. He advises you in the exploitation of your store and answers the difficulties that you can meet by leaning, where necessary, on our specialists:

· Training (jobs, computing) · Merchandising · Relations and social legislations · Development · Administrative, financial and legal