direct/ Carrefour announces Third Quarter 2006 Sales

Continued growth in group sales
+ 7.3% on constant exchange rates

* Consolidation of trends in France, sales up 5.3%
- Excluding petrol, sales in France grew 7.0%
- All formats grew like for like sales. Ex-petrol, hypermarket and supermarket sales were up 3.6% and 4.7% respectively, hard discount +1.7% and convenience +2.8%
- Growth was underpinned by growth in food volumes in both hypermarkets and supermarkets and by a better performance from non-food
- The Group won 0.3% food market share in France in the period *

* Accelerating growth in Europe ex-France, sales up 8.4% on constant exchange rates
- The acceleration is underpinned by a 2.9% like-for-like sales growth, mainly driven by a solid performance in Spain in all activities, and by Belgium, which shows the first signs of improvement across all formats
- Italy recorded a slight improvement in like for likes thanks to a robust performance from supermarkets and convenience stores. Hypermarket trends were in line with those of the Second Quarter.
- Other European countries have maintained the positive trends recorded in the First Half

* Growth in Latin America and Asia, sales up 9.9% and 14.0% respectively on constant exchange rates
- New engines for growth - for example Colombia, Indonesia and China - continued to show strong growth
- These trends were mitigated by Brazil, where we see strong deflation, and Taiwan, which has been impacted by a tightening of consumer credit and by cannibalisation

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