Supermercados Santa Isabel () are a chain of supermarkets throughout Chile owned by

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. The markets are an average of 1,500 square meters.

History

Origins

Santa Isabel was founded in

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, Chile in 1976 by Eduardo Elberg. Until the mid-1990s he maintained organic growth within the

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and the historic Los Lagos province now split into Los Lagos and Los Ríos provinces. In 1996 an aggressive plan was started to expand the company both nationally and internationally. During this expansion the company went public and entered the Chilean capital region, Peru, and Paraguay under the subsidiary Supermercados Stock. In July 1996 the company bought Multimarket's 25 locations in Santiago and the country's south under the Multimarket and Gigante monikers. During September of said year Santa Isabel acquired ten Marmentini Letelier stores in the Metropolitana Region and

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areas. At the same time the company expanded to Ecuador. In 1997 the company was acquired by Velox Group, owner of Argentine stores

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. Towards the end of the 1990s the company operated 63 branches in Chile under the Santa Isabel namesake in Chile and also Hipermercados Stock in Peru and Ecuador. Santa Isabel Limache

In 1999 it was procured by

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during the purchase of Disco Argentina.Ahold acquires stores in Latin America , Royal Ahold
Previously Santa Isabel had absorbed Supermercados Agas (that also owned Supermercados Uriarte). At this time the company created the Tops en Hipermercados concept which replaced the Stock brand.

Cencosud era

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bought out Santa Isabel and Tops completely in 2003. Santa Isabel locations were used to complement and not compete with the corporation's existing

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