Paul-Louis Halley

Paul-Louis Halley is a business man born with Cherbourg (Handle) the September 16th 1934, died, in company of his wife, in an air crash the December 6th 2003 with Woodstock (center of the England).

Paul-Louis Halley created the group of large distribution Promodès in 1961 with Caen, with his father Paul-Auguste Halley and his brother Robert Halley by joining together several family companies of wholesale, established in Normandy.

President of the directory during twenty-five years, it made Promodès, through innovations and of repurchases, a particularly dynamic international group, the first in Europe, which will radiate in France under the signs Continent, Champion, Shopi and Eight to 8, and which was established successfully in Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland, Belgium and Turkey.

After having failed to buy the Group Casino in 1996, Paul-Louis Halley sealed in 1999 an alliance with another great group of distribution, Carrefour.

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