Carrefour Poland- key information

Carrefour Poland
- key information

Carrefour’s priorities

We are an omnichannel grocery retail chain. Every day, we do our best to offer our clients a large choice of products, different shopping options, and top quality services. Thus, we build and develop stores in various formats and both care about customers who prefer traditional stores as well as those who favor shopping online.

While implementing our strategy in Poland, we focus constantly on five key areas:

Quality

Quality

Quality

Carrefour Poland cares about the quality and the safety of all the goods sold in its stores and produced under its own labelled brand. Carrefour’s Quality Specialists monitor all quality parameters at every stage of production and distribution.

Low prices

Low prices

Low prices

Low prices are Carrefour’s DNA, and that is why we do our best so that clients find in Carrefour stores a wide and diverse range of products at very attractive prices.

Health

Health

Health

Carrefour Poland offers a large assortment of healthy products , educates its clients about healthy nutrition and supports the biggest racing events organized in Poland. The company is also the Main Sponsor of the Tour de Pologne.

Proximity

Proximity

Proximity

This is not a matter of how many Carrefour stores operate in Poland and where they are located, but it is rather a question of customer service quality, i.e. close relationships of our employees with clients. Our first cooking book “For the love of Taste” is a great source of knowledge about closeness and traditions of eating together.

Choice

Choice

Choice

Throughout the year, Carrefour offers the widest and most diverse selection of products on the market, including among others, premium, ecological, Polish and local products.

Carrefour in numbers

Carrefour owns in Poland nearly 850 stores in 6 formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, wholesale and discount shop, convenience and specialized stores as well as an eshop. Carrefour also possesses  in Poland a network of shopping malls, logistics centres, loading facilities and petrol stations. Carrefour Poland’s network consists of:

  • Over 90 hypermarkets

    Over 90 hypermarkets

  • Over 150 supermarkets

    Over 150 supermarkets

  • 7 wholesale and discount stores

    7 wholesale and discount stores

  • Over 670 convenience and specialized stores

    Over 670 convenience and specialized stores

  • 45 shopping malls and arcades

    45 shopping malls and arcades

  • Nearly 40 petrol stations

    Nearly 40 petrol stations

  • 5 central warehouses working with the Polish logistics network

    5 central warehouses working with the Polish logistics network

  • An online grocery shop carrefour.pl

    An online grocery shop carrefour.pl

Executive Committee

  • Tareck Ouaibi

    Tareck
    Ouaibi

    Carrefour Poland CEO

  • Nicolas Legendre

    Nicolas Legendre

    Finance Director

  • Justyna Orzeł

    Justyna
    Orzeł

    Vice President, Secretary General and HR Director

  • Eric Yung

    Eric Yung

    Commercial and Supply Chain Director

  • Robert  Stupak

    Robert
    Stupak

    Head of Marketing, Digital, E-commerce and IT

  • Agata Kopytyńska

    Agata Kopytyńska

    Real Estate, Expansion and Assets Director

  • Tomasz Waligórski

    Tomasz Waligórski

    Chief Operating Officer

Tareck Ouaibi

Tareck
Ouaibi

Carrefour Poland CEO

He started his career in Carrefour in 1987 in France.

In the years 1999-2011 he worked at Carrefour Polska, among others as IT director, board member responsible for the HR area, and then as the operating director of super and hypermarkets. He participated in the process of taking over the Ahold company and rebranding the Champion and Globi brands, as well as creating the Carrefour franchise network.

In the following years he managed hyper and supermarket formats as well as convenience and cash & carry in Greece and France, and he recently held the position of COO in Carrefour Romania.

He holds the diplomas of the Faculte des Sciences de Paris and the INSEAD Fontainebleau Institute. He is fluent in French and English and communicates in Polish.

Nicolas Legendre

Nicolas Legendre

Finance Director

Nicolas joined the Carrefour group in August 2011 as internal auditor for Europe and South America. From July 2022, he was the Financial Director at Eureca within the Carrefour Group. Before assuming this role, Nicolas was the Controlling Director at Carrefour Polska.

Justyna Orzeł

Justyna
Orzeł

Vice President, Secretary General and HR Director

Justyna Orzeł has over 20 years of experience in retail, in the areas of human resources, operations, marketing, trade and sales. She has been working for Carrefour Polska since 1998, where, in recent years as a human resources director, she has successfully created and implemented the Carrefour Poland HR strategy.

In the present role, she is responsible for the areas of human resources, legal, external communication, strategy and transformation, quality, security and CSR.

Justyna Orzeł is a graduate of the University of Silesia in Katowice and the Kozminski University in Warsaw. She is also a certified Erickson Professional Coach.

Eric Yung

Eric Yung

Commercial and Supply Chain Director

Eric Yung is a food engineer. He started his career at Carrefour in 1999, where he held several positions in the area of marketing and then purchasing various categories of fresh products and groceries. In 2012, he became Director of the Large Home Appliances Market. In 2016, he joined the FMCG teams as Organization and Method Merchandise Director, and from 2018 he was the director of Maison Johanès Boubée - a wine subsidiary of the Carrefour Group. On June 1st, 2024, Eric Yung was appointed as the Commercial and Supply Chain Director and Carrefour Polska Board Member.

Robert  Stupak

Robert
Stupak

Head of Marketing, Digital, E-commerce and IT

Robert Stupak has many years of experience in the areas of marketing and e-commerce, which he gained both in Poland and abroad, cooperating with the largest global brands in the retail, e-commerce and technology sectors.

Agata Kopytyńska

Agata Kopytyńska

Real Estate, Expansion and Assets Director

Agata Kopytyńska has over 20 years of experience in the retail industry in the field of real estate and finance. She joined Carrefour in 2006. Until 2012, she held managerial positions in the Controlling Department, and then managed the real estate and expansion area.

Tomasz Waligórski

Tomasz Waligórski

Chief Operating Officer

Tomasz Waligórski has extensive experience in retail and wholesale, which he gained on both the Polish and international markets. He started his career in 1995 as a buyer in the Eurocash wholesale chain, and later in the Biedronka chain of stores, where he worked as a regional operations director, then commercial director and member of the management board. He spent over 7 years on a contract in Portugal, where he worked as director of private labels for the Jeronimo Martins Group, and previously as a senior buyer in the Pingo Doce supermarket chain. Then, after returning to Poland, he held the position of CEO in the Polomarket supermarket chain and again in Eurocash, where he worked as the General Director of Retail. Tomasz Waligórski also spent almost 2 years in Africa as COO in a hypermarket chain in Angola, and for the last 3 years he was the General Director of the Intermarche chain. From July 1, 2024, he holds the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Carrefour Polska.

 

History

Carrefour started its activities in Poland in 1997 with the opening of its first hypermarket in Łódż. Since then, the retail chain has expanded and now consists of over 900 stores in 5 formats.

Carrefour Poland is part of the Carrefour Group, which was founded in 1959 in Annecy, France. The company launched its international expansion in 1973, entering on new markets. Carrefour currently operates in countries like: Spain, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, China and Taiwan.