Éxito is a Colombian

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chain owned by

Grupo Éxito Grupo Éxito is a South American retail company. It operates 2,606 stores in South America. The stores sell a wide range of food and non food products. Though originally a textiles maker and seller (under such brand names as Arkitect, People, Br ...

and headquartered in

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

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. It was founded in Envigado in the year 1949, by Gustavo Toro Quintero and now is one of the largest supermarket companies in the country, and has 390 stores ubicated in 175 municipalities of the Colombian territory.

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is the city with more stores.

History

In March 26, 1949, Gustavo Toro Quintero,(a businessman) opened the first store of "Almacenes Éxito" in the center of the Medellín. In its principles was a store dedicated to the selling of snippets and textile clothing. Gustavo Toro loves helping those in need and that help was reinforced in 1993 with the creation of "Fundación Éxito" that in its beginnings was dedicated to strengthening topics like education, social conditions, and civic and cultural. Today its work focus is children´s nutrition. In 1994 the company started its share opening entrancing to the Bogota, Medellín and West stock exchanges. In 1998 it created the virtual store of Éxito in association with NormaNet being a pioneer in Colombian online trading. In 2001, the company merged with "Cadenalco" disappearing in this way "Almacenes Super Ley" and then acquires to "Almacenes Ley". In 2005 "Grupo Éxito" forays into the property business and creates the "Tarjeta Éxito" in an alliance with Tuya. By 2010,

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owned 67% of Almacenes Exito. The company starts the absorption of "Almacenes Ley" process to was completed in 2012. In 2013 it created "Móvil Éxito" its telephone service supported by the infrastructure of "Tigo Colombia". In 2018 it created the modern-futurist hypermarket "Éxito WOW!" In 2022 "Almacenes Éxito" replaced the headquarters of the "Almacenes La 14" in Palmira, Cartago,

Jamundí Jamundí is a town and municipality in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Jamundí is located south of Cali (the capital of the department) in the west riverside of the Cauca River The average temperature is 23° Celsius. Histo ...

, Buenaventura, in the department of Valle del Cauca and the headquarter of Girardot in the department of Cundinamarca.

References

Retail companies established in 1905 Supermarkets of Colombia Grupo Éxito 1949 establishments in Colombia {{colombia-company-stub