The Cactus Group signs an adhesion contract with the central buying office of the Casino Group

The retail high flyer of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Cactus Group has just entered into an adhesion contract with the central buying office of Groupe Casino.

Whilst remaining fully independent commercially and in terms of its equity, the Cactus Group can tap into attractive buying conditions and access quality own-brand product sourcing.

Groupe Casino boosts its multi-format, multi-banner central buying office dedicated to its highly diversified members, aimed at long-standing reinforced cooperations with manufacturers.

Saint Etienne, 2nd April 2010

About Cactus Group
The Cactus Group is the retail leader of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is the country’s second biggest private job provider and has been a part of the daily lives of those in Luxembourg and the bordering countries for over forty years. It namely operates 2 hypermarkets, 10 supermarkets and 7 convenience stores.
2009 Cactus Group’s consolidated sales : 770 M€ with manpower close to 4,000.

About Groupe Casino
Groupe Casino is one of the global food retail leaders.
Thanks to the proximity relations Casino has forged both in terms of location and business with its customers, it can match each and everyone’s requirements with their aspirations, differences and life styles in mind.
Groupe Casino operates 9,364 stores in France via its different banners “Géant Casino”, ” Supermarchés Casino”, “Franprix “, “Leader Price”, “Monoprix”, “Petit Casino”, “Spar” or “Vival”.
Groupe Casino is also set up in a dozen countries boasting over 1,600 stores including in Thailand and Brazil where it holds a leading position.
In 2009 Groupe Casino achieved consolidated sales of 26.7 billion euros. It employs close to 200,000 people throughout the world

Press contact : Caroline Simon, 01 53 70 74 65, caroline.simon@image7.fr

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The Cactus Group signs an adhesion contract with the central buying office of the Casino Group

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