{"id":74883,"date":"2026-09-05T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/74883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:31:50","slug":"carrefour-reports-weaker-than-expected-first-quarter-sales-as-brazil-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/74883\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrefour reports weaker than expected first-quarter sales as\u00a0Brazil slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                        By<br \/>\n                                        <br \/>Reuters\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Published<br \/>\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                        April 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content col-md-8 offset-md-1\">\n                                Supermarket chain <a class=\"fnwAddLinks\" href=\"https:\/\/ww.fashionnetwork.com\/tags-carrefour\" title=\"Carrefour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrefour<\/a> reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter sales on Wednesday as \u2060its business in Brazil declined and France, its biggest market, grew less than expected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-image\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:774px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ad73.jpg\" alt=\"A Carrefour store\" width=\"774\" height=\"516\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>A Carrefour store <\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">Sales in France\u00a0grew 1.4% in like-for-like terms, slightly \u2060less than \u200canalysts expected, while Brazil \u2060was a bigger disappointment with a 0.8% decline in comparable sales, which the \u200bretailer \u200bsaid was due to very high interest rates hitting consumers&#8217; spending power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Brazil, in a macroeconomic context marked by \u200cconsistently \u200bnegative food volumes, the group delivered a resilient performance,&#8221; \u200csaid chief financial \u2060officer\u00a0Matthieu Malige.\u00a0First-quarter revenue for the group as \u200ca whole was 21.141 billion euros ($24.77 billion), less than the 21.83 billion expected by analysts according to a consensus compiled by Visible Alpha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">Carrefour, where profit \u200bmargins narrowed to 2.6% last year from 3.1% in 2021, now faces higher costs across its markets \u200bas \u200cthe \u200bIran war has driven energy prices up \u200csharply, \u200ca shock that could feed through into higher food prices.\u00a0Malige downplayed the impact of the conflict, however, \u2060saying he expects food inflation in France to stay low this year and \u200cthat the retailer saw \u200bno change in consumers&#8217; behaviour in March, the first month of the war.\u00a0\n                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                \u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2026 All rights reserved.\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Reuters Published April 22, 2026 Supermarket chain Carrefour reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter sales on Wednesday as \u2060its business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12904],"tags":[1576,12908,997,2009,19247,27583],"class_list":["post-74883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carrefour","tag-beauty","tag-carrefour","tag-fashion","tag-luxury","tag-network","tag-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}