| An agreement was made between the Group and Carrefour France to found the MAF Hypermarkets Company, to become the group with the premier trade mark of Carrefour in the Middle East region and other countries | |
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| Moreover, it was the first to introduce and develop the Hypermarket concept into the region | Carrefour also has several branches in UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria; and it is the largest chain of retail stores in the world, it hosts more than 107 million customers every year worldwide |
The first branch of Carrefour was opened in the June of 1957 in the suburbs of Annecey, France, which is now the smallest branch among the other 14,500 branches worldwide that has more than 490,000 employees, where one new store opens every week across the world.
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