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On the same day that it announced the institution of a R $ 25 million fund to promote actions to combat racism in Brazil, this Monday (23), Carrefour paid the second and last installment of the profits distributed by the company to its shareholders. this year. They received R $ 482 million in total. The French group that controls the supermarket chain had the right to R $ 345 million and the Peninsula, owned by the family of businessman Abílio Diniz, had another R $ 37 million.
Carrefour promises to present this Wednesday (25) the criteria that it will adopt in the distribution of money from the new fund, announced in response to the wave of indignation caused by the death of Beto Freitas, beaten and suffocated by security guards in a Porto Alegre supermarket , on Thursday (19).
The company says that it will also donate the results obtained with its sales in all stores in the country on Friday (20). Last year, Carrefour obtained R $ 1.98 billion in Brazil. This year, the results registered in the first nine months indicate a 49.6% increase in the chain’s profits.
The largest American companies pledged to make large donations in the United States after the death of George Floyd, a black man suffocated by a policeman in May. Information from 58 companies collected through the Axios website indicated commitments of US $ 3.3 billion through September.
Walmart, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, has committed to investing $ 100 million in initiatives focused on promoting racial equity over the next five years. Wholesaler Costco has allocated $ 25 million to black-led financial institutions and local communities. Target announced a donation of $ 10 million.
For Giovanni Harvey, chairman of the deliberative board of the Baobá Fund, which supports projects to promote racial equity, the most important thing is not the money from Carrefour. “They need to say what they are going to do in the operation so that this does not happen again,” he says. “They should look for measures that have a real impact on the Brazilian retail system.”
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