Today, Christian Cléret, CEO of Poste Immo and Jean-Pierre Lanzetti, CEO of Casino Proximité signed a five-year partnership agreement to setup convenience stores in vacant real-estate sites next to post offices in towns with less than 12,000 inhabitants.
Over the last few years, La Poste group has been rolling out an extensive modernisation program of its industrial facilities, creating mail preparation platforms in city outskirts and vacating the buildings located next to its post offices which previously housed local mail distribution centres.
Casino will be able to rent these unoccupied buildings and turn them into convenience stores.
This partnership concerns an initial batch of about fifty real-estate sites located all over France.
This innovative partnership will benefit La Poste group in three ways. By renting its vacant buildings to convenience stores it will reduce its current real estate costs, dynamise communities and improve the service offer and appeal of town centres.
For Casino this is a partnership founded on the shared values of customer service and proximity. This long-term alliance will enable the food retailer to increase its presence in towns with less than 12,000 inhabitants and cater for the needs of local elected representatives and consumers.
Paris, October 19
About La Poste Group
A limited company in 100% public ownership since 1 March 2010, La Poste is an original multi-business group structured around four activities: mail, parcels express, banking and the La Poste retail brand. Each year, La Poste’s 17,000 branches are visited by some 45 million individual and 3.5 million business customers. La Poste’s operational infrastructure allows it to process and transport 26 billion objects per year. In 2010, La Poste group generated revenues of €20.9 billion and employed more than 276,000 staff. By 2015, La Poste intends to become a European leader in local postal and financial services. La Poste group is innovation-minded and strives daily to develop services and products that will facilitate the lives of its clients and employees in the future.True to its values and public service missions, and backed by the commitment of its postal workers, the La Poste group aims to become a benchmark in the arena of the modern public enterprise.
About Poste Immo
Wholly-owned subsidiary and global real estate operator of the group La Poste, Poste Immo intervenes both as land and as a service provider with a park of 13.000 buildings and 7.6 million m². The company operates the Group’s real estate policy according to an ambitious sustainable commitment through its four activities: attending the Jobs of the Group for the development of their projects, preservation and increase of the value of the patrimonial asset, the rationalization of occupied surfaces, and the optimization of the asset management. Its responsible approach also extends to its employer’s social role, its culture, its functioning and its relations with all stakeholders.
About Casino
The Casino group is a leading food retailer in France and internationally. Multi-format and multi-brand, it runs a network of 11,700 stores.
The Group is present in Latin America (Brazil and Colombia) and Southeast Asia (Thailand and Vietnam) and generates 46% of its turnover outside France (Third-quarter 2011 sales data).
About Casino Proximité
Casino Proximité is a food retailing pioneer with 6,700 stores in France (Petit Casino, Casino shopping, Casino shop, Spar, Spar Supermarché, Vival…). True to its founding values of customer service and satisfaction, Casino Proximité is implementing a strategy of diversification and geographical expansion driven by a sustained recruitment policy. The Casino group’s convenience store division generated a turnover of €1.6 billion in 2010 and is currently the leader in its market.
Press Contacts
La Poste Group
Stéphanie FRAISSE / Tél : + 33 1 55 44 22 39 / Fax : 01 55 44 22 62 / steph.fraisse@laposte.fr
Casino Group
Frédéric CROCCEL / Tel. + 33 1 53 65 24 39 / fcroccel@groupe-casino.fr
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Grégoire LUCAS / Tel. + 33 1 53 70 74 94 / glucas@image7.fr
Priscille RENEAUME / Tel. + 33 1 53 70 74 61 / preneaume@image7.fr
