The Mousquetaires Group (), formerly Les Mousquetaires, trading as in Portugal and as in Poland, is a French retail group operating internationally, founded in 1969. Its head office is in Bondoufle, France.
It operates several different brands for different retail segments, which are mostly suffixed by the term "marché" (French for market), like Intermarché or Bricomarché. The stores are independent businesses, but they are supplied with products and central services by Les Mousquetaires group.
The Mousquetaires Group operates in:
Initially, Jean-Pierre Le Roch, a member of the E.Leclerc retail cooperative, was a close associate of ÃÂdouard Leclerc. Although fruitful, the relationship between ÃÂdouard Leclerc and Jean-Pierre Le Roch deteriorated due to differences of opinion, with Leclerc moving towards consolidating supermarkets into hypermarkets, while Le Roch wanted to open more supermarkets. Their collaboration ended on 15 September 1969, when Jean-Pierre Le Roch resigned from the cooperative following yet another disagreement, taking with him, by ultimatum, ninety-two members at the time, or more than half, and forming a new cooperative called EX - Office de Distribution (EX implying ex-Leclerc), of which Le Roch was appointed president.
In 1973, the oil company Exxon (known outside the United States under the Esso brand) established itself in France and registered the trademark âÂÂExâ to avoid confusion, asking companies with the prefix âÂÂex-â to change it. Following the example of other brands such as Euromarché, EX chose to rename itself Intermarché.
On 9 June 2009, the Les Mousquetaires group announced that the Intermarché brand would be rolled out across all of its traditional food stores, with the exception of Netto (France), which sells low-cost products.
Intermarché stores are categorized according to their sales area and location: