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France’s Leclerc still selling Pepsi after Carrefour drops Pepsico products

2024.01.08 05:02


© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Michel-Edouard Leclerc, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of French retailer E. Leclerc SA, attends the third annual tech conference “Inno Generation” organized by French investment bank Bpifrance at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, Fr

PARIS (Reuters) -The head of France’s biggest supermarket chain E. Leclerc said on Monday it was still selling Pepsi after rival Carrefour (EPA:) ditched PepsiCo products in the latest tug-of-war between retailers and global food giants over prices.

Michel Edouard Leclerc also told BFM TV he was optimistic that food inflation in France would return to a range of 2.5% to 3% this year as consumer goods companies had become “more reasonable”.

Commenting on annual price negotiations with suppliers due to end on Jan. 31, Leclerc said he had asked French food giant Danone for price cuts that he hoped would become effective in February-March.

“All the big industrial groups are playing for time. They are in no hurry to sign before Jan 31. Prices for the year are being decided now,” he said.

“I want to be the most affordable (retailer) in France…I will ask Danone for deflation,” he added, without citing a figure.

Danone declined to immediately comment.

France has been gripped by a debate over the price of staples, with retailers claiming that producers’ price increases are unjustified. The government has demanded retailers and suppliers finish annual price negotiations in January, two months earlier than usual, as it seeks to lower inflation.

Asked if Leclerc would, like Carrefour, withdraw Pepsico (NASDAQ:) or any other products from its shelves because of high prices, he said: “I continue to sell Pepsi.”

“We can tell suppliers: see with lower prices you can build up revenue and I think this argument will prevail over a show of strength,” he said.

Carrefour said last week its stores in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Poland would no longer stock products including Pepsi, Lay’s Crisps, Cheetos, and 7up because of “unacceptable price hikes”.

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