Carrefour Poland joined the Green Ribbon Campaign #ForThePlanet organized for the World Environment Day. As part of its ecological commitments, the retail chain announced that Carrefour Group will reduce the amount of packaging for its own-brand products by 5% in comparison with 2017.

Carrefour Poland participated as an exhibitor at the International Food Fair Warsaw Food Expo, which took place from 24th to 26th May at the Congress and Exhibition Centre Ptak Expo in Nadarzyn. Carrefour Poland’s participation was an occasion to present to producers, suppliers, consumers and to the agriculture community its Food Transition strategy.

Why it is worth helping? How to encourage others to get involved in social actions and on what depends the success of special events organized in stores? Employees of Carrefour stores could find answers to these questions during a special meeting organized at the technological incubator C4 Retail Lab.  Guests such as the popular actor Radosław Pazura, Karol Krzyczkowski from the Forum of Responsible Companies, and Łukasz Osowicz from the agency Live, shared their knowledge and  experience on these topics.

On 21st May took place the first meeting of a cycle of networking events called “C4 Inspiration Evening”, whose aim is to build a social community of professionals around the technological incubator Carrefour C4 Retail Lab, in order to seek and effectively cooperate with startups. The first meeting gathered over 40 people related to the Polish sector of startups and was dedicated to challenges in e-commerce.

Carrefour Poland is for the second time in a row the main partner of the Tour de Pologne, which celebrates this year its 90 years of existence. This anniversary also coincides with the celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of Poland regaining independence.

Carrefour Poland participated once again as an exhibitor in the Warsaw Book Fair, one of the biggest events dedicated to literature in Poland and in Europe, which attracts each year more than 70 000 visitors and gathers 800 editors from 32 countries. This year and under the headline “Digital Carrefour”, the chain promoted the idea of e-shopping and invited editors to cooperate for selling their products online on Carrefour Marketplace. In addition, Carrefour was a partner of the exhibition “Polish-French friendship and the independence of Poland”, which received during the event the visits of Mateusz Morawiecki and Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.