date:Mar 06, 2014
Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, reported a rise in profits on Wednesday as work on turning round its French business started to pay off and said it would spend more this year on reviving its European hypermarkets and expanding in China and Brazil.
The company said operating profits rose a slightly better than expected 5.3 percent to 2.238 billion euros ($3.1 billion) last year thanks to a sharp improvement in profitability at home as well as robust growth in Latin America, altho