France - Fast food chain goes Halal

Posted in: France, Europe, Retail
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The Belgian fast-food chain Quick is experimenting with halal restaurants in France. The branches will only serve products which comply with the Islamic food requirements. Since mid-December, eight Quicks in France changed over completely to halal food: Toulouse, Marseille (2), Roubaix, Villeurbanne, Argenteuil, Garges-lès-Gonesse and Buchelay.

France today: a tale of halal foie gras and burkas Burka

Posted in: France, Europe, Retail
Sales of halal foie gras have increased ten-fold in the last two years, delighting supermarket chains across France. "It is one of our bestsellers, we were selling more than 30 a day" said the manager of a Parisian branch of Carrefour, while a spokesman for a leading meat wholesalers announced that demand for halal duck and halal capon has been "unprecedented" in 2009.

France: Fast-food chain opens halal branches

Posted in: France, Europe, Restaurants
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The Belgian fast-food chain Quick is experimenting with halal restaurants in France (see also here). Those branches serve only products which comply with the Islamic food requirements. Since mid-December, eight France Quicks changed over completely to halal food: Toulouse, Marseille (2), Roubaix, Villeurbanne, Argenteuil, Garges-lès-Gonesse and Buchelay.

Carrefour to open Singapore supermarkets with Halal sections

Posted in: Asia, Retail, France

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FRENCH hypermarket chain Carrefour will be opening six to eight supermarkets and a hypermarket in suburban areas in the next three years. It will invest more than $84 million in the upcoming supermarkets and hypermarket, which will be located in the northern, north-eastern and western areas of Singapore.

All of its new stores will also have halal sections - called Halal Select - in its bakery, butchery and fish departments, which were launched yesterday in its two existing hypermarkets in Suntec City and Plaza Singapura.


French halal restaurants try gourmet cuisine

Posted in: Europe, Restaurants, France
In a stylishly decorated restaurant in the heart of Paris, tucked between Bastille and Place de la Nation, Sophia Tabet is perusing a typical French menu, including foie gras, beef fillet and duck confit. But unlike other French eateries, this one offers no wine list, and all food is prepared strictly in accordance with the principles of Islamic sharia law.

How many more of these restaurants catering to the Muslim gourmet are hidden away in cities around the world? So refreshing to hear rather than a new Halal McDonald's! The Muslim youth of America, and other countries, are no different to the the French, I am sure they would become patrons of restaurants of this caliber.

France's army embraces its Muslim soldiers

Posted in: Europe, Travel & Hospitality, France
Muslims in France's army who go on the pilgrimage to Mecca this year will not have to travel on private commercial flights or bunk with ordinary civilians. In a break from tradition, the Defence Ministry will provide a plane to fly them to Saudi Arabia and organize their stay.

France: Growing halal market

Posted in: Europe, Retail, France
According to a recent study by the Solis agency, which specializes in 'ethnic marketing', the halal market (in France) is valued at close to 4 billion euro for 2009, and is estimated to grow at annual rate of 15%. According to Solis, 93% of North Africans and 55% of sub-Saharan Africans buy halal products.