어제 처음 스나얀에 있는 롯데마트에 가보았습니다..
까르푸에 비교해 훨씬 깨끗하고, 제품 quality도 좋아보이더군요..
그리고 한국제품들이 꽤 많이 눈에 띄어 즐겁더군요..
이젠 더이상 한국슈퍼에 집착안해도 되겠습니다..
한국슈퍼서 한국제품사고, 현지 슈퍼에서 야채사고, 과일사고..참 힘들었는데
이젠 롯데마트서 원스탑 쇼핑이 가능하겠더군요...

롯데가 아주 공격적으로 이곳에서 마케팅을 할거 같습니다.
하이퍼마트 인수설도 나오네요...
까르푸를 누르는 현지 최대 유통업체가 될수도 있겠습니다...잘만 하면요...

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Wal-Mart, Casino, Lotte Advance in Matahari Unit Sale, Sources Say
Reuters & JG | November 17, 2010

Hong Kong & Jakarta. Wal-Mart Stores, Casino Guichard-Perrachon and Lotte Shopping have advanced to the next round of bidding for Indonesian retailer Matahari Putra Prima’s $1 billion sale of its hypermarket business, sources with knowledge of the deal have said.

The auction comes on the heels of Carrefour’s sale of its outlets in Thailand, which brought the French retailer a higher-than-expected $1.2 billion including debt.

Matahari itself declined to confirm that its Hypermart business was for sale, other than to say that Merrill Lynch was undertaking a “strategic review” of the business in a bid to “enhance shareholder value,” Matahari’s president director Benjamin Mailool told the Jakarta Globe.

“We want to leverage the value of Hypermart,” Mailool said of the agreement between the company and Merrill Lynch. “But there is no direct contact between Matahari and Wal-Mart, Lotte or any of the other players.”

Mailool said Matahari had been encouraged by Merrill Lynch’s initial assessment of the value of the hypermarket business and “upbeat global sentiment” among investors looking to enter the Indonesian retail market.

He said Merrill Lynch’s final proposal on how to proceed was expected by the end of the year.

“We don’t have any bidding process under way at this point,” said Mel Regalado, Matahari’s chief operating officer, “We are just continuously expanding Hypermart.”

The reported sale has also drawn interest from the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity fund, but sources say it has not made it to the second round of bidding.

South Korea’s Shinsegae has also expressed interest, but it is not clear whether it is still in the running.

International retailers are jockeying for position in emerging markets as they look for sources of growth outside maturing US and western European markets, although the cost of competing is often too much to justify widespread expansion.

Matahari is selling Hypermart, Indonesia’s second-biggest hypermarket chain after Carrefour Indonesia, to focus on its core health care and property assets, sources have said.

The short-listed parties had been asked to submit their bids for the next round next month, one source added.

All companies mentioned as potential bidders in this report declined to comment.

The sources mentioned were not authorized to speak to media about the auction as the sale process is confidential.

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