- CEO
- Philippe Palazzi
- Full Time Employees
- 24,078
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Grocery Stores
- Address
- 1, Cours Antoine Guichard Saint-Étienne France 42008
- IPO Date
- Aug 3, 2012
- Business
- Casino, Guichard-Perrachon S.A. (Groupe Casino) operates as a French mass-market food retailer focused on convenience and premium store formats. The company offers a wide range of food and non-food products through its network of 7,447 stores at the end of 2024, including convenience stores under the Casino, Spar, and Vival banners (5,541 stores); Franprix (1,054 stores); Monoprix (625 stores); and Naturalia (222 stores); as well as supermarkets, hypermarkets, shopping malls, discount outlets, cash-and-carry operations, and e-commerce platforms such as Cdiscount. It conducts operations primarily in France, with historic presence in Latin America and internationally, and engages in ancillary activities including online retail, banking services, service stations, franchising, real estate management, property development, and energy-related services.
Founded in 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard and headquartered in Saint-Étienne, France, the company targets urban and dynamic regional markets, holding a leading position in Paris with approximately 60% market share in premium and convenience segments.
In recent developments, Casino completed a significant financial restructuring and change of control in 2024, followed by the sale of its hypermarket and supermarket portfolio comprising 366 stores to refocus on convenience retailing under the "Renouveau 2028" strategic plan, now extended to "Renouveau 2030." The group launched new store concepts including "La Ferme" at Naturalia (with ongoing roll-outs and 23 stores by end-September 2025), "Coeur de Blé" quick meal solutions (36 outlets by end-September 2025), Spar "Origines," and a Casino mobile grocery truck; redesigned Monoprix’s Fashion & Home website; redefined product ranges and private-label strategies; and joined the Aura Retail purchasing alliance with Intermarché and Auchan. These initiatives drove like-for-like net sales growth in the first half and third quarter of 2025, with consolidated net sales reaching €2,002 million in Q3 2025 and €8.5 billion for full-year 2024.