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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Alfredo Coto |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Key people | Alfredo Coto (owner and president) |
| Products | Supermarkets Wholesale Logistics Credit cards |
| Brands | Coto |
| Revenue |  US$ 2.3 billion (2009[1]) |
| Owner | Alfredo Coto |
Number of employees | 14,000 [2] |
| Website | coto.com.ar |
Coto C.I.C.S.A., (mostly known for its tradename Coto) is an Argentine supermarket chain founded by Alfredo Coto in 1970 as a butcher shop. The first Coto supermarket was opened in the city of Mar de Ajó in La Costa Partido in 1987.[3] The chain currently has 120 supermarkets, most of them in Buenos Aires Province.
- ^ INDEC: Encuesta de Supermercados (in Spanish)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
cotowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ La parábola del Señor de las Góndolas on La Política Online, 29 Sep 2007