Uvesco, owner of BM Supermercados, suspends the sale operation to Carrefour

BILBAO Dec. 9 () –

The Uvesco group, owner of BM Supermercados, has officially informed Carrefour that it is suspending its sale to this distribution group of French origin, with which it was negotiating in recent months.

In this way, as sources familiar with the process have informed Europa Press, the negotiations between Carrefour and PAI Partners, the main shareholder of the Uvesco group, have come to an end, so the French company will not take over the 333 BM Supermecados establishments. which also has an online store, and four logistics plants.

BM operates in the Basque Country, Navarra, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid and Ávila and has more than 7,000 employees.

This possible sale operation brought to light the initiative of some Basque shareholders of BM who were preparing an offer to avoid the acquisition of the Uvesco group by Carrefour, in order to guarantee its roots, an initiative that received the support of the Basque Government, which indicated that it maintained “discreet” talks to support this project.