date:Aug 01, 2014
Two of Europe's top retailers, France's Carrefour and Germany's Metro , are making progress in their quests to revive performance in their home markets, with Metro rewarding its chief executive with a contract extension.
Carrefour, Europe's biggest retailer, and Metro, the number four, have both suffered at home while expanding rapidly into faster-growing emerging markets.
But after cutting costs and revamping stores and product ranges they are starting to reverse years of underperformance fro