Promodès is a former

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group of retailers. It was owned up to 56% by the Halley family. Paul-Auguste Halley, which was a simple grocer in the Manche in the 1950s, had the idea of importing the concept of

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in France. With his two sons, Paul-Louis and Robert, he founded the group Promodis (future Promodès) in 1961 in

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in 1969,

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in 1973,

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in 1975, and the United States (

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) in 1979.

Merger with Carrefour

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

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. After an exchange of shares, the Halley family became the largest shareholder in the new group with a 13% stake of Group Carrefour. :fr:Famille Halley

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