Cora (hypermarket)

Cora SA

Company type	Private, SA
Industry	Retail
Founded	1974
Headquarters	Brussels , Belgium
Key people	Philippe Bouriez
Products	Hypermarkets
Parent	Louis Delhaize Group
Website	cora.fr

Cora is a retail group based in Belgium which owns several supermarket and hypermarket chains internationally. Formed in 1974, the corporation's brands include Match, Profi, Truffaut, Ecomax, Animalis, Sovena and Houra, as well as Cora-branded hypermarkets.

The name comes from the Greek goddess Persephone (Roman: Proserpina) who is also known as Cora.

interior of store in the southern Paris suburb of Massy.

Operations around the world

Country	Number of stores
France	59
Romania	12
Belgium	7
French West Indies	4
Luxembourg	29

As of 2011, Cora has twelve hypermarkets in Romania, three of which are in Bucharest, and six more in Arad, Baia Mare, Constanța, Cluj-Napoca,Poliesti and Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

External links

• Cora France
• Cora Belgium
• Cora Romania
• Cora Luxembourg
• Cora Antilles