| Type | S.A |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hypermarket Supermarket |
| Founded | 1961, France |
| Divisions | Continent Champion Shopi Dia |
Promodès is a former French group of retailers. It was owned up to 56% by the Halley family. Paul-Auguste Halley, which was a simple grocer in the Mancha in the 1950s, had the idea of importing the concept of supermarkets in France.
With his two sons, Paul-Louis and Robert, he founded the group Promodis (future Promodès) in 1961 in Caen (Calvados) by combining several Norman families of wholesalers: the Halley's, the Duval-Lemonnier and the Marette.
From the 1960s, the group grows rapidly in Europe and internationally in Belgium in 1969, Spain in 1973 and Brazil in 1975.[1]
In 1999, Paul-Louis Halley announced the merger between the groups Promodes and Carrefour making the biggest retail group in Europe and the second in the world after Wal-Mart.
After an exchange of shares, the Halley family became the largest shareholder in the new group with a 13 % stake of Group Carrefour.[2]