I am taken aback to see such a fabulous project in Contonou, a city that I would never ever have believed to see the construction of such modern retail as it was more known for informal, sticky and shabby markets. Superb!

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/arton56279-430x289.jpg

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-7jours-sur-7-430x430.jpg

:banana::banana::cheers:

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-ouverture-Affiche-4x-440x330.jpg

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-Christine-Ouinsavi-5-430x288.jpg

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-coupure-ruban-7-430x289.jpg

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-produits-beninois-II-9-430x289.jpg

http://www.armenews.com/IMG/EREVAN-visite-guidee-8-430x289.jpg

http://www.aubenouvelle.info/IMG/jpg/Erevan.jpg


Le 25 septembre 2009 était inauguré avec faste l’hypermarché Erevan. Le premier du genre en Afrique occidentale, un ensemble de plus de 18 000 m², qui aura coûté quelque 6 milliards de francs CFA. Marcel Tchifteyan, le PDG du groupe Tchifteyan, homme d’affaires très connu au Bénin, venait une nouvelle fois de marquer un grand coup. Après sa société de matériaux de construction et ses complexes touristiques, avec le centre commercial Erévan en plein cœur de Cotonou, Marcel Tchifteyan réalisait l’un de ses rêves. Les grands noms du Bénin assistaient à l’inauguration de l’hypermarché Erévan, à commencer par le Chef de l’Etat béninois, Thomas Boni Yayi, accompagné d’un grand nombre de ministres et personnalités politiques. Le centre Erévan est un complexe moderne qui propose des articles d’homme et de femme, des produits vestimentaires et cosmétiques et d’autres gammes de produits. Il dispose également d’un centre multi média qui offre un grand confort à la clientèle.

« La terre béninoise m’a accueilli, m’a séduit et depuis plus d’un demi-siècle je ne l’ai plus quittée » dit dans son discours inaugural Marcel Thifteyan comme pour exprimer sa reconnaissance à cette terre qui a vu naître son épouse et ses trois enfants. M. Tchifteyan déclare « c’est un véritable mariage qui m’a uni au Bénin et c’est un mariage heureux et fécond ».

Le ministre du Commerce, Christine Ouinsavi annonçait à cette occasion que le Chef de l’Etat avait décidé d’admettre Marcel Tchifteyan dans l’Ordre national du Bénin pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre et « l’encourager à faire davantage ». Une marque de reconnaissance envers l’homme qui avait tant investi dans l’économie du Bénin. En compagnie du président béninois, Marcel Tchifteyan procédait alors à la coupure du ruban et invitait les personnalités à visiter les locaux. Situé près de l’aéroport international de Cotonou, l’hypermarché Erévan qui porte le nom de la capitale arménienne, rappellera aux millions de béninois cette terre d’Arménie dont sont originaires les parents de Marcel Tchifteyan « le plus arménien des béninois ». Né à Marseile en 1931, Marcel Tchifteyan est présent en Afrique depuis plus de cinquante ans


This is all 100% local Beninoise, no foreigner was involved in this project!!!

...and the first wine fair of Benin took place recently as well:cheers:



1ère Foire au Vin à EREVAN, Centre commercial à Cotonou
Dégustation de vin

L'augmentation constante du nombre de consommateurs de vin au Bénin a suggéré à M. Bernard BESSAEDE, Directeur de Château à Bordeaux, d'organiser, fin 2009, avec l'aide d'AG Partners Bénin, la première éditon de la Foire au Vin, à l'hypermarché EREVAN.

Les objectifs visés, pour cette Foire au Vin étaient :

* créer un contact avec les consommateurs,
* les fidéliser,
* faire découvrir d'autres types de vins au public Béninois.

La manifestation a drainé du beau monde : producteurs, distributeurs et consommateurs s'y sont côtoyés.

http://ag-partners.com/uploads/media/EREVAN-Foire-Au-Vin.jpg

:cheers::cheers:

My favorite part was that it was 100% Beninois. Love that.

Non mais Matthias, I actually skipped the article and relied on your statement.

This is not a Beninois' project, it's a Frenchman. I thought you read French.

18.000m² is really big! The biggest in Morocco is 10.000m², here in Casablanca!
Nice job Benin! ;)

oh yes for a hypermarket 18.000m² it's just big
this is cool , im happy pour le benin

The best is to come for Benin!! ;)

Non mais Matthias, I actually skipped the article and relied on your statement.

This is not a Beninois' project, it's a Frenchman. I thought you read French.

you are just so narrow-minded that it stinks:bash:

this guy has been living in Benin for more than 50 years - almost ALL HIS LIFE and is married to BLACK Beninoise woman and has kids. He was born in Marseille, yes...so what???.....but gooosh he is Beninman ans he doesn´t identify with France...but that´s difficult to understand for a someone like you who can only think in black and white terms. You just make me :puke:

This project is 100% Beninoise. This guys has alos been honoured with country´s highest ranks....and his contribution to the country is very good. lots of employment!

you are just so narrow-minded that it stinks:bash:

this guy has been living in Benin for more than 50 years - almost ALL HIS LIFE and is married to BLACK Beninoise woman and has kids. He was born in Marseille, yes...so what???.....but gooosh he is Beninman ans he doesn´t identify with France...but that´s difficult to understand for a someone like you who can only think in black and white terms. You just make me :puke:

This project is 100% Beninoise. This guys has alos been honoured with country´s highest ranks....and his contribution to the country is very good. lots of employment!

Matt, he is French. My parents are still Ghanaian even though they have lived abroad for 30 years now. But the project is indeed Benin-based.

Matt, he is French. My parents are still Ghanaian even though they have lived abroad for 30 years now. But the project is indeed Benin-based.

No surprise that such a comment came out of your mouth as well!

if someone has lived for more than 50 years in Africa and is married to a BLACK womam from Benin, has his kids grown up there.....has done so much for Benin, gets the highest orders by the president for his work (that project is not his first one, btw), of course he is still A COLONIAL EXPLOITATIVE "EVIL-HEARTED" " white European" whose sole goal in life consists in destroying Africa and its people.:nuts:

Surely, that´s what you wanted to say...

Popa1980, why don´t you go and settle somehwere in Atlanta or one of those "race-infested" areas down there rather than staying in liberal UK...your views would perfectly fit into the thinking of those narrow-minded people. Just give it a try, you won´t feel disappointed. :)

He is French. End of topic.

No surprise that such a comment came out of your mouth as well!

if someone has lived for more than 50 years in Africa and is married to a BLACK womam from Benin, has his kids grown up there.....has done so much for Benin, gets the highest orders by the president for his work (that project is not his first one, btw), of course he is still A COLONIAL EXPLOITATIVE "EVIL-HEARTED" " white European" whose sole goal in life consists in destroying Africa and its people.:nuts:

Surely, that´s what you wanted to say...

Popa1980, why don´t you go and settle somehwere in Atlanta or one of those "race-infested" areas down there rather than staying in liberal UK...your views would perfectly fit into the thinking of those narrow-minded people. Just give it a try, you won´t feel disappointed. :)





Still doesnt make him Beninoise. We knew this guy from Ghana who worked as an accountant in Scotland all his working life. He went homr recently and NEVER did he consider himself as Scottish and NEVER did the Scottish people consider him as such. Matt, bare in mind that I know of 3rd and 4th generation Malawians, of the settler community, who still consider themselves Scottish!!

No surprise that such a comment came out of your mouth as well!

if someone has lived for more than 50 years in Africa and is married to a BLACK womam from Benin, has his kids grown up there.....has done so much for Benin, gets the highest orders by the president for his work (that project is not his first one, btw), of course he is still A COLONIAL EXPLOITATIVE "EVIL-HEARTED" " white European" whose sole goal in life consists in destroying Africa and its people.:nuts:

Surely, that´s what you wanted to say...

Popa1980, why don´t you go and settle somehwere in Atlanta or one of those "race-infested" areas down there rather than staying in liberal UK...your views would perfectly fit into the thinking of those narrow-minded people. Just give it a try, you won´t feel disappointed. :)

…oh wow, what a major achievement, he married a Benin Woman after living in Benin for 50 years, what do you want us to do, give the guy a cookie or something?

Liberal and UK in the same sentence, I’m tired of your ignorance. Just watch this and educate yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLPkj3Od3s

Still doesnt make him Beninoise. We knew this guy from Ghana who worked as an accountant in Scotland all his working life. He went homr recently and NEVER did he consider himself as Scottish and NEVER did the Scottish people consider him as such. Matt, bare in mind that I know of 3rd and 4th generation Malawians, of the settler community, who still consider themselves Scottish!!

Exactly, a joke, why does he always play this game of reverse-psychology; like Europeans didn’t go to Africa and pillage the place, Matt it’s not funny!

Matt,

No body is against the project or the SuperMarket. They are all happy that Benin has something good that will generate longs of long term jobs.

But facts remain that the guy is not Benenois. He is French who has lived in Benin for longtime .

^^ Ditto.

Get it together Matt. Jeez.

So let me get this straight:

The man in question was born in France, so despite where else he may hold citizenship, and despite the fact that he's lived elsewhere for the majority of his life, he is nothing but French? So then we all agree that naturally by your own logic our dear Rdokoye always has and always will be British, despite his constant claims of Africanism in other threads?

Furthermore, why are you going out of your way to insist that the man in question in French? Instead of claiming the glory for the country in question and allowing them to bask in the joy of their accomplishment, you're trying to suggest that the only reason they got it right is because of the French? :nuts:

The contradictions in SSC Africa never cease to amuse me.

So let me get this straight:

The man in question was born in France, so despite where else he may hold citizenship, and despite the fact that he's lived elsewhere for the majority of his life, he is nothing but French? So then we all agree that naturally by your own logic our dear Rdokoye always has and always will be British, despite his constant claims of Africanism in other threads?

Furthermore, why are you going out of your way to insist that the man in question in French? Instead of claiming the glory for the country in question and allowing them to bask in the joy of their accomplishment, you're trying to suggest that the only reason they got it right is because of the French? :nuts:

The contradictions in SSC Africa never cease to amuse me.

You speak out of my mind...nothing to add from my part!

End of topic

That's huge, and why should people mind about his nationality ? The fact is that people there can enjoy shopping pleasantly in a stylish and organized way in clean, comfortable and modern atmosphere unlike shopping in open-air markets.

I need to study more about Benin :)

This is not a Beninois' project, it's a Frenchman. I thought you read French.
The guy is actually the son of Armenian immigrants (refugees from the Turkish genocide), as you can tell from his last name, plus the fact that he was born in Marseille where most of the Armenian refugees arrived, and the fact that he called his supermarket "Erevan" (the capital city of Armenia). He's been living in Africa since his 20s, i.e. for more than 50 years now.

French singer Charles Aznavour is also a French-Armenian....

So let me get this straight:

The man in question was born in France, so despite where else he may hold citizenship, and despite the fact that he's lived elsewhere for the majority of his life, he is nothing but French? So then we all agree that naturally by your own logic our dear Rdokoye always has and always will be British, despite his constant claims of Africanism in other threads?

Furthermore, why are you going out of your way to insist that the man in question in French? Instead of claiming the glory for the country in question and allowing them to bask in the joy of their accomplishment, you're trying to suggest that the only reason they got it right is because of the French? :nuts:

The contradictions in SSC Africa never cease to amuse me.

I don’t claim anything, I’m genetically African, which means, I belong to an ethnic group NATIVE to the continent; something you wouldn’t know anything about. :)

He is French. End of topic.

Yep the boss is French.
So 100% beninois is non accurate !!

I don’t claim anything, I’m genetically African, which means, I belong to an ethnic group NATIVE to the continent; something you wouldn’t know anything about. :)

Nonsense. We all genetically originate from Africa, hence we're all native to the continent :lol: Considering I'm majoring in the field in question, I could say I know about enough, thanks :nuts: You, however, I wonder about.

So, as I said, either this dude isn't French and you're not African, or he is French and you aren't British. You can't argue both ways :hilarious

Nonsense. We all genetically originate from Africa, hence we're all native to the continent :lol: Considering I'm majoring in the field in question, I could say I know about enough, thanks :nuts: You, however, I wonder about.

So, as I said, either this dude isn't French and you're not African, or he is French and you aren't British. You can't argue both ways :hilarious

I’m talking about identifiable ethnic groups, not some myth that begins hundreds of thousands of years ago; you don’t need to major in whatever to know that.

That's huge, and why should people mind about his nationality ? The fact is that people there can enjoy shopping pleasantly in a stylish and organized way in clean, comfortable and modern atmosphere unlike shopping in open-air markets.

I need to study more about Benin :)

Maybe you understand better why Africa still lags behind.

Instead of giving credit to him for creating good formla employment, people rant at him because he is not black and hence not considered african although he has lived there for over 50 years and is married to a Black woman and has kids...Africans are the worst ennemies to themselves.

I’m talking about identifiable ethnic groups, not some myth that begins hundreds of thousands of years ago; you don’t need to major in whatever to know that.

Some myth? Bwahaha :hilarious That got me lol'ing.

Case closed. Judgement: denial.

Maybe you understand better why Africa still lags behind.

Instead of giving credit to him for creating good formla employment, people rant at him because he is not black and hence not considered african although he has lived there for over 50 years and is married to a Black woman and has kids...Africans are the worst ennemies to themselves.

What are you on about, no one is faulting his actions; we’re simply making a point, that he’s NOT one of us. Simple!

Some myth? Bwahaha :hilarious That got me lol'ing.

Case closed. Judgement: denial.

You keep on laughing while I keep on living.

The guy is actually the son of Armenian immigrants (refugees from the Turkish genocide), as you can tell from his last name, plus the fact that he was born in Marseille where most of the Armenian refugees arrived, and the fact that he called his supermarket "Erevan" (the capital city of Armenia). He's been living in Africa since his 20s, i.e. for more than 50 years now.

True and patriotic African this man is!

You keep on laughing while I keep on living.

Oh make no mistake about it, laugh I will :lol:

Africans are the worst ennemies to themselves.
Sounds like it.

Man, the reaction to this is ridiculous.

Matthias, we are just calling you out on your LIE. That's all. I don't care where he's from, he could be from from Pandora for all I care, I just don't like being lied to like that. End of.