New CEO Appointed at Carrefour Bulgaria

Christian Charitat has 26-year career in Carrefour Group where he was employed in the year 1984. Photo by Carrefour Bulgaria

Christian Charitat is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Carrefour Bulgaria, the retailer announced.

Charitat will take over from Laurent Bendavid who is promoted to work on a key project for the development of Carrefour hypermarkets’ concept in the Headquarter of Carrefour Group, France.

Christian Charitat has 26-year career in Carrefour Group where he was employed in the year 1984. He was born on June 26, 1961. He graduated from Commercial Techniques Saint Germain en Laye, France.

He had occupied several managing positions in stores of Carrefour in France. From 1994 till 1999 he had been Store manager and National Food Manager in Carrefour – Taiwan. During the next four years he had been working in Carrefour – Japan and from 2002 till 2010 he has been occupying managing positions in Carrefour – Indonesia where his last position was Operational Director.

Within the week from 15 to 21 April Carrefour is going to open two new hypermarkets in Bulgaria, which are expected to create a total of 750 jobs. On 15 April Carrefour in Galeria Plovdiv will be opened, and the next one to open its doors is the chain’s largest hypermarket located in The Mall - Sofia.

The Carrefour Group is the first retailer in Europe, and the second largest worldwide, with more than 15.000 stores under different banner in 32 countries and more than 490 000 employees.

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