Cencosud S.A. is a publicly traded multinational retail company. It’s 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.

Cencosud operates upscale Paris department stores, the Costanera Center financial center, Easy home improvement and hardware stores, Jumbo hypermarkets, Santa Isabel supermarkets, in Chile.

Also operates Bretas supermarkets, G Barbosa super and hypermarkets, Prezunic supermarkets and Perini supermarkets in Brazil, Vea and Disco supermarkets in Argentina, Wong and Metro in Peru and in 2012 acquired the Carrefour hypermarket operations in Colombia, which changed branding to Jumbo.

Traded as:           BCS: CENCOSUD, NYSE: CNCO

Industry:              Retail

Founded:             1960

Headquarters:    Santiago, Chile

Products:             Hypermarkets, Supermarkets, Shopping malls, Department stores

Website:              www.cencosud.com