Cencosud S.A. is a

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multinational retail company. It's the largest retail company in Chile and the third largest listed retail company in

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, competing with the Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição and the Mexican

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as one of the largest retail companies in the region. The company has more than 1045 stores in Latin America.

History

By the end of 2006, the operations of the company included 65 Jumbo hypermarkets, 165 Santa Isabel supermarkets; 249 Disco, Vea and Jumbo supermarkets; 60 Easy home improvement stores; 36 Paris department stores; 27 shopping malls and 52 offices of Banco Paris bank, totaling a sales area of 1.8 million square meters, or 19,375,038.75 square feet. It has more than 4.3 million active credit card accounts, issued under the brand Tarjeta Cencosud (in Chile, Peru and Argentina), Tarjeta Cencosud Colpatria (Colombia) and Cartão Cencosud Bradesco (Brazil). By the end of 2007, several new stores had been opened in Chile,

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and

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, and the company acquired Wong supermarkets, the largest retailer in Peru, and GBarbosa, a Brazilian retailer. In August 2011, Cencosud announced the acquisition of Johnson department stores.

Brands

Cencosud operates upscale

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department stores, the Costanera Center financial center, Easy home improvement and hardware stores,

Jumbo Jumbo (about December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan. Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes, a zoo in Paris, and ...

hypermarkets, Santa Isabel supermarkets, in Chile. Also operates Bretas supermarkets, G Barbosa super and hypermarkets, Prezunic supermarkets and Perini supermarkets in Brazil, Vea and Disco supermarkets in Argentina, Wong and Metro in Peru and in 2012 acquired the

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hypermarket operations in Colombia, which changed branding to Jumbo.

References

External links

Official website
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