Cora (hypermarket)
Cora is a retail group of hypermarkets of Belgian origin located in France and elsewhere in Europe. Cora was founded in 1974 by the supermarket holding Louis Delhaize Group after taking over three Carrefour hypermarkets located in Belgium. These three were originally established around 1969 as a joint venture franchise between two other companies: the Carrefour Group and the Delhaize Group.
The Louis Delhaize Group owns several supermarket and hypermarket chains internationally, including Cora, Louis Delhaize, Match, Profi, Truffaut, Ecomax, Animalis, Sovena and Houra.
The name 'Cora' is borrowed from the Greek goddess Persephone who is also known as Cora.
As of December 2018, Cora has eleven hypermarkets in Romania, four of which are in Bucharest, and the other seven are in Baia Mare, Constanța, Cluj-Napoca, Ploiești, Bacau and Drobeta-Turnu Severin.
