Casino Guichard-Perrachon: directors' dealings · France · AMF

About Casino Guichard-Perrachon

CASINO GUICHARD-PERRACHON is a long-established French food retail group listed on Euronext Paris. Founded in Saint-Étienne in 1898 by Geoffroy Guichard, the company began as a local grocery retailer and gradually built a major footprint in convenience and neighborhood retail. Its registered office remains in Saint-Étienne, reflecting the group’s historic roots and enduring French identity. Over more than a century, Casino developed from a regional merchant into a diversified retail platform with several well-known banners. In recent years, however, the group has undergone a major strategic reset. Its latest disclosures show a clear refocusing on convenience retail in France, alongside the disposal of hypermarkets and supermarkets. This repositioning is designed to simplify the business, improve operational agility, and strengthen the group’s medium-term financial profile. Today, the group’s core business is centered on proximity retail through a portfolio of complementary brands: Monoprix, Franprix, Casino, Spar, Vival and Naturalia. Together, these banners cover everyday consumer needs in urban and densely populated areas, ranging from general grocery shopping to organic products, quick meal solutions, and small-format convenience stores. Casino has also been rolling out new store concepts such as “Oxygène” at Franprix, “La Ferme” at Naturalia, and “Origines” at Spar to refresh the customer offer and support sales productivity. Casino holds a distinctive position in the French retail landscape thanks to its brand recognition, dense proximity-network heritage, and long-standing presence in city centers and neighborhood locations. Its geographic exposure remains overwhelmingly concentrated in France, although the group also leverages digital capabilities and partnerships through assets such as Cdiscount. The e-commerce platform remains an important complementary growth driver, particularly through marketplace activity and customer acquisition. From a financial perspective, the group reported consolidated net sales of €8.260 billion for 2025, up 0.5% on a like-for-like basis, while fourth-quarter sales also increased 0.5% LFL. These figures suggest that the first benefits of the “Renouveau 2030” strategy are starting to materialize after a highly transformative period. Casino therefore remains a benchmark name in French retail, but one that is now more narrowly focused on convenience-led formats and disciplined execution.