Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição,

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GPA (formerly as Grupo Pão de Açúcar), is the biggest Brazilian company engaged in business retailing of food, general merchandise, electronic goods, home appliances and other products from its

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stores owned by the French conglomerate retail group

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. Its headquarters are in

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city. The company is the second biggest retail company in

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by revenue and the second largest online retailer in Brazil. The company operates its e-commerce through

Cnova Cnova N.V. is an e-commerce company, founded in June 2014. Cnova includes Cdiscount (operating in France, Belgium, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Colombia) and Cnova Brazil (operating in Brazil). Cnova N.V. is part of Groupe Casino, a French global ret ...

, a subsidiary of

Via Varejo Via, formerly Via Varejo, is a Brazilian retail company founded in 2010 through the merger of retail companies Casas Bahia, owned by the Klein family, and Ponto, owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar. Since June 2019, the Klein family own a controllin ...

. For 2013, the company planned to open more than 150 stores, targeting northeast and mid-west regions. In September 2013,

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, the son of the company's founder, has stepped down as chairman of the company.

Business units

GPA operates through different store concepts (and different banner logos):

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* and 74
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Pão de Açúcar Sugarloaf Mountain ( pt, Pão de Açúcar, ) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance t ...

(181 stores) ** Minuto Pão de Açúcar (98 stores) ** Pão de Açúcar Fresh (1) ** Pão de Açúcar Adega ** Posto Pão de Açúcar** *

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(72 stores; being converted into Assaí

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stores) ** Mercado Extra (146 stores) ** Mini Extra (141 stores) ** Drogaria Extra* ** Posto Extra** *

Compre Bem CompreBem was a supermarket chain in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, in Brazil, owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar. This banner's origins start by the Pão de Açúcar acquisition of the Comprebem (with a lowercase "B") supermarket chain in nort ...

(28 stores) ** Posto Compre Bem** * Assaí Atacadista ( spun-off in 2021; currently controlled by

) ** Posto Assaí

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(503 retail stores)

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 ...

(233 stores) ** Surtimax (72 stores) ** Surtimayorista (36 stores) ** Super Inter (61 stores) **

Carulla Carulla is a Colombian supermarket chain owned by Grupo Éxito and headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia. It was founded in 1905, and now is one of the largest supermarket companies in the country. Founded in the city of Barranquilla, it soon mo ...

(101 stores) ** Viva (

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)

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(92 retail stores)

* Grupo Éxito ** Devoto (60 stores) **

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(30 stores) *** Géant (2 stores)

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(25 retail stores)

* Grupo Éxito ** Libertad (10 stores) ** Paseo Libertad (15 stores; shopping center)

Ownership structure

Currently, GPA is owned by:"Ownership Structure"
''GPA''. Retrieved on 26 September 2020. * Grupo Casino – 41.2% *Board of Executive Officers and Board of Directors – 0.01% *

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– 0.1% *

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– 58.3%

References

External links

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Business units

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ... (503 retail stores)

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ... (92 retail stores)