Saved from bankruptcy in March 2024, the Stéphanois distributor announced an increase in sales in all these store formats in the second quarter. However, the group will have to renegotiate its debt in 2026.
The inflection is certainly low, but after years of descent into hell, it looks like a light at the end of the tunnel. Over the first six months of 2025, the Casino group (Monoprix, Franprix, Petit Casino, Vival and Cdiscount), saw its sales increase by 0.5%, to 4 billion euros. Better still, in the second quarter, all of its formats (without the hypers and supermarkets sold after its 2023 rescue plan) display a clear growth in their turnover. “This is the first time for the new casino”, Summarizes Philippe Palazzi, the director general of the group responsible by his new shareholder, Daniel Kretinsky, to put the Stéphanois distributor on foot.
Whether in its 617 Monoprix and Monop ‘(+2.9%), its Franprix (+1.7%), its Small Casino, Vival, Spar and Sherpa specials (+2%) or its Bios Naturalia stores (+7.8%), turnover increases everywhere. “It is both due to a market and a more promising consumption environment , Decrypts the manager. But these are also the first fruits of the work carried out on the modernization of our concepts and our specialization on local brands. While large distribution has lost 8 billion euros in turnover in 5 years for the benefit of food and proximity shops, it is on the latter that the future growth of distribution resides…
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