Gilles Petit

Gilles Petit is graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce business school in Reims where his specialist subject was Finance. He began his career in 1980 at Arthur Andersen before joining the Promodès group in 1989 where he successively held until 2000 the positions of Store Director, Methods and Organization Director, Sales and Marketing Director, Operations Director and then Chief Executive Officer of Continent hypermarkets. In 2001, Gilles Petit was appointed Managing Director of Carrefour Belgium and in 2004 was nominated Executive Director – Other European Countries and in 2005 became Managing Director of Carrefour Spain. As of January 2008 he was Executive Director France and a member of the Executive Board before being appointed to Carrefour’s Executive Committee. Gilles Petit is Chief Executive Officer since of 1 October 2010.