Marcel Fournier

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Marcel Fournier (born March 2, 1914 in Annecy , † January 6, 1985 ) was a French entrepreneur .

Life

Fournier came from a merchant family in Annecy. His parents were wholesalers and retailers in hosiery and haberdashery. At the age of 18 he started working in his parents' business. During a trip to the USA in 1950 he got to know the self-service shops there. Ultimately, based on this experience, he founded the French retail company Carrefour together with Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey in 1959 , the initiative of Denis' older brother Louis Defforey . He later became PDG of the group, from whose head he retired in 1979 at the age of 65.

Literature (selection)

  • Jean-Marc Villermet, Naissance de l'hypermarché , Paris, Armand Colin, 1991
  • Jean-Marc Villermet, 1959–1963, au Carrefour d'une révolution, Annesci 44
  • Hervé Paturle, Marcel Fournier, l'Hyperman: Il était une fois l'homme qui inventa la grande distribution, Ed. La Martinière, 25/02/2005 ( ISBN 2846756678 )
  • Yves Soulabail, Carrefour, Un combat pour la liberté, Le Loup Hurlant Editions, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josée Doyère: Marcel Fournier quitte la présidence de Carrefour. In «Le Monde» du 5 mai 1979. Le Monde , May 5, 1979, accessed on December 17, 2014 (French, article republished online June 27, 2013).
  2. ^ Michel Villette, Catherine Vuillermot: From Predators to Icons. Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero . Cornell University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-801-47566-5 (p. 35)
personal data
SURNAME Fournier, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Annecy , France
DATE OF DEATH January 1985
Place of death France