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3
rd
edition of the international Food Bank collection
WORLD –
Carrefour has been a partner of Food
Banks since 1994. Alongside collections from
clients, our stores and warehouses make daily
donations of food to non-profit associations.
Carrefour also shares its logistics capabilities
with teams from the Food Banks in order to opti-
mise stock management and the preparation of
deliveries. The Carrefour Foundation also partici-
pated in this long-termpartnership by organising
the third international collection in 2015. Over
2,200 stores in 10 countries – Argentina,
Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Italy, Poland,
Romania, Spain and Taiwan – were mobilised
twomonths to collect products from their clients.
Almost 1,400 employees lent a helping hand
to volunteers from the Food Banks to raise con-
sumers’ awareness, unload and sort the products
collected, before they were transferred to the local
Food Banks and passed on to the various associ-
ations. In all, 4,953 tonnes of food products, or
the equivalent of nearly 10 million meals, were
collected.
Nearly
1,400
employee
volunteers
Facilitating access
to food and
combating exclusion
Social inequalities are increasing and, according to
theWorldBank, almost 10%of theworld’s population
were living below the poverty line in 2015.
To help bridge this divide, the Carrefour Foundation
runs philanthropic programmes linked to the
Group’s core business as a retailer and supports
programmes that facilitate access to quality food
and in sufficient quantity.
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/ 2015 ACTIVITY REPORT