Monoprix S.A. (French pronunciation: [mɔnɔpʁi]) is a major French retail chain with its headquarters in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, near Paris. The company's stores combine food retailing with hardware, clothing, household items and gifts.
It is a joint subsidiary of the Casino Group and Groupe Galeries Lafayette, with both partners holding 50% of the company each since 2000. The Monoprix group had more than 300 stores and employed around 20,...
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Monoprix S.A. (French pronunciation: [mɔnɔpʁi]) is a major French retail chain with its headquarters in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, near Paris. The company's stores combine food retailing with hardware, clothing, household items and gifts.
It is a joint subsidiary of the Casino Group and Groupe Galeries Lafayette, with both partners holding 50% of the company each since 2000. The Monoprix group had more than 300 stores and employed around 20,000 people in France at the end of 2008. It is considered an up-scale chain and its business model was the inspiration for Waitrose in the early 2000s. Monoprix is present in approximately 85% of all French cities with a population of more than 50,000 residents. In 2005, Monoprix had 3.3 Billion Euros in revenue.
The closest comparison to Monoprix for American and British customers might be the old-style Woolco stores in both countries, which combined Woolworth non-food range with a supermarket offering.
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