Ripley S. A. is a Chilean
department store
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic app ...
,
financial services
Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companie ...
, and
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
s management company. Ripley is headquartered in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, who ...
, Chile
and also has operations in
Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
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, national_motto = "Fi ...
,
Argentina
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and
Colombia.
Ripley has 67 stores, with 38 in Chile and 29 in Peru. In the financial sector it operates a bank under the
Banco Ripley
Banco Ripley is a bank in Chile.
Overview
The bank was created in 2003.United Nations, ''Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2005'', 2006, p. 15/ref> It is a subsidiary of Ripley S.A. and is headquartered in Santiago
Santia ...
brand and manages credit lines through its Tarjeta Ripley cards. The company manages six shopping malls, three in Chile and four in Peru.
Ripley's main competitors are
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
,
Falabella
The Falabella is an Argentine breed of small horse. It is among the smallest of horse breeds, with a height at the withers in the range ..
History
The ancestral stock of the horse of South America descended from horses brought to the western he ...
and
Hites all operating similar shopping and lending ventures in the Chilean market.
References
External links
Banco RipleyBanco Ripley PeruRipley ChileRipley Perú
{{portal, Companies
Financial services companies of Chile
Companies based in Santiago
Financial services companies established in 1956
Retail companies established in 1956
Real estate companies established in 1956
Chilean companies established in 1956
Retail companies of Chile
Shopping malls in Chile
Chilean brands