Carrefour's Chief Executive Alexandre Bompard issued an apology to Brazil's government after the French grocer became the center of a spat with Brazilian meatpackers that prompted a boycott. Bompard said last week that Carrefour would halt sales of meat produced in countries belonging to the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur at its French stores.

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