Carrefour : Stopping the sale of Carrefour-brand eggs produced by caged hens in Europe

Carrefour has just reached a new milestone in animal well-being in becoming the first retailer to commit to ensuring that all of the Carrefour-brand eggs that it sells in Europe are the product of non-cage farming systems between now and 2025. This commitment now applies to eggs sold in Spain and Romania, and will be in addition to targets set for France, Italy, Poland and Belgium.

Encouraging the whole sector to adopt more virtuous practices
Carrefour will work closely alongside its producers and suppliers in meeting this goal.
Carrefour is calling upon national-brand suppliers to take up this European commitment and so ensure that this transformation applies as widely as possible to the market. Carrefour will support its suppliers and customers to extend this initiative to all eggs, so that by 2025, all of the eggs it sells are produced using non-cage farming systems.

In December 2016, Carrefour declared that it would stop getting supplies of own-brand eggs from cage-reared hens by 2020 in France. At the same time, the retailer is working with its partners on ending sales for national brands by 2025. Carrefour is the leading distributor of free-range eggs - 480 million units are sold every year (70% of total egg sales). All Carrefour brand eggs are produced by local and French lines.

Key figures:
. 1 billion Carrefour brand eggs sold every year in Europe
. 9500 Carrefour stores in Europe