CarrefourSA/Batumi: The Inclusion of Small Traders and Entrepreneurs in the System is Crucial

Forex - Sabancı Holding and Carrefour Group's subsidiary, the leading brand in the Turkish retail sector, CarrefourSA, with 1,200 stores and dealers across 70 provinces and a workforce reaching 15,000, continues to grow while providing customers with the right product at the right price from the right producer; meanwhile, it supports small tradespeople and entrepreneurs through its dealership system.
CarrefourSA, which offers the opportunity to trade with the assurance of CarrefourSA to small and medium-sized tradespeople and entrepreneurs, has reached 520 dealers in its dealership system and continued the third of its Dealer Meetings aimed at growing with tradespeople and entrepreneurs in Antalya. At the meeting held at the Antalya Lara Gourmet CarrefourSA, CarrefourSA Executive Board Member Bulut Batum met with potential dealers and entrepreneurs to discuss CarrefourSA's dealership system and investments.
The Third Stop of Dealership Meetings is Antalya
"We must walk hand in hand with local tradespeople and entrepreneurs to ensure sustainability in the growth of the organized food retail sector," said CarrefourSA Executive Board Member Bulut Batum, adding: "In this respect, involving small tradespeople and entrepreneurs in the system is essential to strengthen organized food retailing. To expand the dealership system we launched in 2020, we are bringing together potential dealer candidates from across Turkey through the Dealer Meetings. After starting our dealership meetings in Adana, we continue with Antalya following Ankara. With the dealership system we have implemented, we offer our tradespeople and entrepreneurs the opportunity to trade with CarrefourSA assurance. We support the tradespeople who know their regions and neighborhoods best, making them part of our family with CarrefourSA assurance. With this system, we contribute to employment with local tradespeople and entrepreneurs while presenting local producers' products to customers with CarrefourSA assurance and helping to make their production sustainable."
520 Tradespeople and Entrepreneurs Joined the CarrefourSA Family
Batum stated that there is significant potential in Antalya within the dealership system, further explaining: "In 2020, we were the first to implement the dealership system in the sector as CarrefourSA. Since 2020, 520 tradespeople and entrepreneurs have joined our system in 65 provinces. Women comprise 60 of these dealers. The most advantageous aspect of this system for tradespeople and entrepreneurs aiming to become CarrefourSA dealers is that they feel the strength of CarrefourSA’s industry experience and the Sabancı brand behind them. Additionally, the expertise of Carrefour Group, one of the world's retail giants, also meets with our dealers. We also offer our 30 years of accumulated knowledge, strong purchasing power, logistics network, marketing communication, and robust technological infrastructure to the service of our tradespeople and entrepreneurs. We will continue to contribute to the economic vitality in the region with the support we provide to entrepreneurs in Antalya and surrounding provinces," he concluded.