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Carrefour MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-08-30
Military Score 4.38 /10 C Carrefour - Complicity Index 409
Military 4.38

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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Carrefour’s Israeli retail presence operates through a franchise partnership with Electra Consumer Products and its subsidiary Yenot Bitan, rather than being identified in Carrefour’s disclosures as a Carrefour-owned Israeli operating subsidiary 1, 2. Carrefour reported approximately 50 Israeli stores open under that partnership in May 2023 2.

Two Calcalist reports stated that Carrefour’s Israeli operation had won a Ministry of Defence tender to supply food to approximately 200 Ministry hospitality or lounge rooms from the third quarter of 2026 3, 4. The reported initial term was one year at approximately NIS 35 million, with an option for up to four additional years and a reported potential value of NIS 175 million 3. The reports did not provide an IMOD tender number, award notice, executed contract, or evidence that deliveries had commenced 3, 4.

An Israeli Ministry of Defence statement reported by Ice said that Carrefour and Yenot Bitan ceased participating in the Behatzdaa reservist benefit-club arrangement on 15 August 2023 5. The reported arrangement concerned supermarket discounts for reservists and does not establish supply to military installations 5.

No public evidence identified.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

The reviewed corporate disclosures, business reporting, and civil-society materials do not identify Carrefour or its Israeli franchise operator as manufacturing or marketing tactical, ruggedised, military-grade, or security-specific product lines 2, 3, 4, 6. The reviewed sources also do not identify end-user certificates, export licences, export-control decisions, or military-specific product modifications concerning Carrefour supplies to Israel 3, 4, 6.

Carrefour’s disclosed Israeli activity concerns retail stores and the import of Carrefour-branded consumer goods, including food products and locally produced Carrefour Baby products 2. This consumer-retail activity is not, on the reviewed record, evidence of dual-use or tactical product supply 2, 6.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

The reviewed sources do not identify Carrefour as a manufacturer of heavy machinery or as a contractor for construction, demolition, checkpoints, barriers, detention facilities, or military-base engineering 1, 3, 4, 6. Carrefour’s Israeli commercial model described in its corporate material is a franchise retail arrangement, not an infrastructure-development operation 2.

A civil-society report described Carrefour, Yenot Bitan, and Mehadrin Market outlets in settlements or settlement neighbourhoods, including Neve Ya’akov and Maccabim/Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, while attributing the underlying outlet research to Who Profits 6. Who Profits and AFSC Investigate separately describe settlement-linked Carrefour or franchisee retail activity, but the reviewed materials did not include primary branch registrations, municipal records, or franchisee filings independently confirming each location 7, 8.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

The reviewed sources do not identify Carrefour, Electra Consumer Products, Yenot Bitan, or Global Retail as supplying components, manufacturing services, raw materials, or co-development services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI, or another Israeli defence prime 1, 3, 4, 6. The OHCHR’s 2023 database lists Electra Group Ltd. under specified settlement-related activities, but the reviewed record does not establish a precise primary-source ownership relationship between that listed entity and Carrefour’s disclosed franchise counterparty, Electra Consumer Products 2, 9.

Carrefour’s 2024 legal chart identifies a range of operating entities but does not identify a Carrefour-owned Israeli operating subsidiary 1. This does not resolve the ownership structure of the Israeli franchisee or establish any defence-prime supply-chain relationship 1, 2.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

The reported IMOD food tender is the strongest identified military-adjacent sustainment lead, because it concerns food supply to approximately 200 Ministry hospitality or lounge rooms 3, 4. The available reporting does not specify the locations of those rooms, whether they are on military bases, the personnel served, or the contract award identifier 3.

Who Profits reported that Carrefour Israel/Global Retail supplied food and beverages for COGAT events in 2024, citing reported amounts of NIS 9,610 and NIS 33,705 7. The underlying procurement award, invoice, purchase order, tender record, or COGAT confirmation was not located in the reviewed material, so this remains a civil-society procurement lead rather than verified direct-contract evidence 7.

The reviewed sources do not identify Carrefour-specific military shipping, freight forwarding, port handling, fuel, waste-management, telecommunications, facilities-maintenance, or base-services contracts 3, 4, 6, 7. Carrefour’s 2023 disclosure stated that photographs of employees donating food parcels to soldiers concerned individual initiatives rather than Carrefour Group activity, and that the photographs were removed 10.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

The reviewed sources do not identify Carrefour or its Israeli franchise operator as manufacturing, integrating, maintaining, or supplying weapons, munitions, military platforms, missile-defence systems, targeting software, or critical lethal-system components 3, 4, 6, 7. Carrefour’s documented Israeli activity is retail franchising and consumer-goods distribution, which does not by itself establish involvement in munitions or strategic platforms 2, 3.

The UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report cites a Carrefour franchise announcement in a footnote, but the reviewed document does not discuss Carrefour as a company involved in the report’s military, surveillance/carcerality, or heavy-machinery discussion 11. The footnote reference is therefore not evidence of weapons or defence-platform supply 11.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

The reviewed sources do not identify export-licence grants, denials, suspensions, sanctions enforcement, arms-embargo proceedings, or judicial challenges concerning a Carrefour defence-supply relationship with Israeli military or security end users 1, 3, 4, 6, 7. No reviewed source identifies Carrefour as a defence exporter or provider of export-controlled military goods 2, 9, 11.

Carrefour’s 2023 Universal Registration Document stated that its franchise partner had signed a contract barring development of Carrefour-banner stores in “the Palestinian territories” 10. The reviewed materials do not establish whether that contractual restriction remained operative after July 2024 or whether particular reported store locations complied with it 6, 7, 8, 10.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Who Profits profiles Carrefour Israel, formerly Yenot Bitan, and reports both alleged 2024 COGAT-event food and beverage supplies and Carrefour-branded or franchisee locations in Maccabim, Neve Ya’akov, and other settlements 7. AFSC Investigate presents Carrefour as having grocery stores in settlements and states that its research draws on Who Profits and other sources 8. These are corroborating civil-society findings, rather than primary procurement or location records independently reviewed here 7, 8.

The DBIO coalition report likewise presents settlement-location and COGAT-supply assertions while attributing outlet and procurement research to Who Profits 6. The reviewed record did not include the underlying invoices, tenders, purchase orders, branch registrations, or official COGAT statements needed to treat those assertions as independently verified direct-procurement or operational evidence 6, 7.

The BDS Movement maintains a public boycott campaign targeting Carrefour and calls for it to end its franchise arrangement with Electra Consumer Products/Yenot Bitan and cease sales of settlement products 12. That campaign establishes the existence and stated basis of the advocacy effort, but not its underlying allegations as verified facts 12.

Carrefour’s July 2024 written response to shareholder questions stated that certain October 2023 initiatives were individual initiatives, had been stopped immediately, and had their related photographs removed from social media 13. This corporate response is not independent confirmation of the underlying initiatives 13.

Carrefour is not listed in the OHCHR’s 30 June 2023 settlement-business database, while that database lists Electra Group Ltd. under specified activities 9. This document-scoped absence does not establish that Carrefour’s franchisee has no connection to the listed entity, because the precise corporate relationship was not established in the reviewed primary materials 2, 9.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.carrefour.com/sites/default/files/2025-03/CFR_URD_2024_EN_250328_MEL_1.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://www.carrefour.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/PR%20Carrefour%20comes%20to%20Israel.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  3. https://www.calcalist.co.il/market/article/1dx7rw54c ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  4. https://www.calcalist.co.il/market/article/sjod5vrbzx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  5. https://www.ice.co.il/consumerism/news/article/975456 ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2025/11/25/dbio-novemebr-2025-1764074548.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  7. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/7373/ar ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  8. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/carrefour ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://www.carrefour.com/sites/default/files/2024-03/Document%20d%27enregistrement%20universel%202023%20%28PDF%29_8.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-carrefour ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.carrefour.com/sites/default/files/2024-07/Writter%20answers%20GA%20Carrefour%202024.pdf ↩ ↩2