On 13 September 2012, the Majid Al Futtaim Group - our franchise partner - opened its first Carrefour hypermarket in Georgia, in the city of Tbilisi.

The Tbilisi Carrefour will have a sales area of 11,454 m² over 2 levels and will be located in the east of the town in the "Tbilisi Mall" shopping centre, together with 150 stores, 5 cinemas and space for 3200 cars.

This is the Majid Al Futtaim group's first store in a non-Islamic region and will sell both alcohol and pork-based meat products.

Georgia has a population of 4,600,000, with 1,100,000 people living in Tbilisi.

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