Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição

Grupo Pão de Açúcar (Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

for Sugarloaf Group) - trading name of Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição, formerly used as a secondary trading name - is the biggest Brazilian company engaged in business retailing of food, general merchandise, electronic goods, home appliances and other products from its supermarkets, hypermarkets and home appliance

Home appliance

Home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions, such as cooking or cleaning. Home appliances can be classified into:*Major appliances, or White goods*Small appliances, or Brown goods...

stores. Its headquarters are in Jardim Paulista

Jardim Paulista

Jardim Paulista is a district in the subprefecture of Pinheiros in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.Grupo Pão de Açúcar has its headquarters in the district.-References:...

, Subprefecture of Pinheiros

Subprefecture of Pinheiros

The Subprefecture of Pinheiros is one of 31 subprefectures of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It comprises four districts: Pinheiros, Alto de Pinheiros, Itaim Bibi, and Jardim Paulista....

, São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

city.

The company is the second biggest retail company in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

by revenue and the second largest online retailer in Brazil, the company operates e-commerce through Nova Pontocom

Nova Pontocom

Nova Pontocom is the second largest Brazilian and Latin America online retail company after B2W Varejo. The company was created in 2011 from an association between Grupo Pão de Açúcar and Casas Bahia....

, a subsidiary of its subsidiary Nova Casas Bahia

Nova Casas Bahia

Nova Casas Bahia is a major Brazilian retail company founded in 2010 through the merger of retail companies Casas Bahia owned by Klein family, Ponto Frio and the electronics stores Extra Eletro both owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar and the furniture business of Grupo Pão de Açúcar...

Today, the company has 1.577 stores throughout Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Grupo Pão de Açúcar operates through different store concepts (and different banner logos):

Pão de Açúcar (162 supermarkets);
Extra (204 supermarkets & 135 hypermarkets);
Assaí (61 stores).

Through its subisidiary Nova Casas Bahia

Nova Casas Bahia

, Grupo Pão de Açúcar operates more than 1.000 Stores under the Pontofrio (formerly styled as "Ponto Frio") and Casas Bahia brands.

Pontofrio (455 stores).
Casas Bahia
Casas Bahia
Casas Bahia is a in Brazilian retail chain which specializes in furniture and home appliances. It was founded in 1957 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, by Polish immigrant Samuel Klein , who began his career as a peddler selling products to immigrants from the Brazilian Northeast...

(560 stores).

Distribution and logistical centers are located in the cities of São Paulo

São Paulo

, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

, Fortaleza

Fortaleza

Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. With a population close to 2.5 million , Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil. It has an area of and one of the highest demographic densities in the country...

, Curitiba

Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...

, Recife

Recife

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

, Arujá

Arujá

Arujá is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2006 was 75,122. The area is 97.7 km².Its boundaries are Santa Isabel the north and the northeast, Mogi das Cruzes in the southeast, Itaquaquecetuba in the south and Guarulhos to the west and the northwest.-External links:*...

and Camaçari

Camaçari

Camaçari is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is located at . It is part of the Salvador Metropolitan Region , being the industrial city of the metropolis. Several factories and petrochemical plants compose one of largest industrial capabilities in Brazil, the largest of the Northeast region of the...

.

The company is jointly owned by the Brazilian billionaire businessman Abílio Diniz & family, and by the French Groupe Casino

Groupe Casino

Groupe Casino is a large French multinational corporation, formerly part of the CAC 40 index, whose main business is with retail and distribution in hyper and supermarkets. The company's head office is in Saint-Étienne....

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