Armenia’s Business Reputation Damaged With The Attempts To Hinder Ca

ARMENIA’S BUSINESS REPUTATION DAMAGED WITH THE ATTEMPTS TO HINDER CARREFOUR’S ENTRANCE TO ARMENIA – ARMEN MARTIROSYAN

TERT.AM
14:08 ~U 01.02.13

Armenia’s business reputation is being damaged with the attempts to
hinder the entrance of the Carrefour French hypermarket to Armenia,
deputy leader of Heritage party Armen Martirosyan said, speaking
to Tert.am.

Asked to comment on the complaints of representatives of small and
medium-sized business representatives over the entrance of Carrefour to
Armenia, Martirosyan said, “Armenia’s economic system is monopolized
and like in the other cases now as well we are facing the issue of
decline of our reputation in the international arena.”

He said the situation with Carrefour is the same like in the case of
other international brands.

Asked whether the entrance of the French company to Armenia will
create impediments for the Armenian producers, Martirosyan said he
does not see such an issue.

“As far as Carrefour imports products the monopolies will suffer cracks
as they will be forced to set competitive prices,” Martirosyan said.

According to media outlets, a number of small and medium-sized
businessmen are going to conduct a protest rally against Carrefour’s
entrance being afraid that it will swallow the market and their
products will not be sold.

From: Baghdasarian