Official website (http://www.cencosud.com/)
Cencosud
Sign in to saveCencosud S.A. is a publicly traded retail company based in Chile. It is the largest retail company in Chile and the third largest listed retail company in Latin America, competing with the Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição and the Mexican Walmart de México y Centroamérica as one of the largest retail companies in the region. The company has more than 1045 stores in Latin America.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Centros Comerciales Sudamericanos S.A.
- Company.logo
- Cencosud-2014.svg
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.location
- Santiago, Chile
- Company.key_people
- Horst Paulmann Kemna
- Company.industry
- Retail
- Company.num_employees
- 126,530
- Company.products
- Hypermarkets Supermarkets Shopping malls Department stores
- Company.revenue
- US$ 19.0 billion (2012)
- Company.net_income
- US$ 562.6 million (2012)
- Company.homepage
- www.cencosud.com
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Cencosud S.A. is a publicly traded retail company based in Chile. It is the largest retail company in Chile and the third largest listed retail company in Latin America, competing with the Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição and the Mexican Walmart de México y Centroamérica 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cencosud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.