1 'Carrefour' means Every Happy Family in Chinese.
It is a famous business story. When translating 'Carrefour' (which means simply 'crossroads', because that's where the first store was located at) into Chinese, characters were chosen that phonetically resemble French 'Carrefour', but which are the characters for 'Happy-Family-Blessed'.
It is a famous case not only for the sheer luck that it could be done, but also for the clever means of penetrating business into China. Carrefour is quite succesful, and the name and the acute awareness of Chinese culture it showed are often credited.
For 2 and 3, I would say El Corte Inglés and Gold too.
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