Système U is a French retailers' cooperative, comprising about eight hundred independent hypermarkets, and supermarkets; it owns the trademarks Hyper U, Super U, Marché U and Utile, which are used by its members.
It had a pre-tax turnover of 12.7 billion euro in 2002 and 13.8 billion in 2003 [1], rising to 15.6 billion euro in 2007; this makes the company the sixth largest retail group in France.