GPA (company)

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição
GPA
Company typePublic
IndustryRetail
Founded7 September 1948; 76 years ago (1948-09-07)
FounderValentim Diniz
Headquarters
São Paulo, SP
,
Brazil
Number of locations
1.429 stores (2021)[1]
Key people
Brands
RevenueIncrease US$9.19 billion (2021)[4]
  • GPA: US$4.81 billion
  • Éxito: US$4.36 billion
Decrease US$172 million (2021)[4]
Total assetsDecrease US$8.86 billion (2021)[4]
OwnerFree Float (71,8%)
Number of employees
84,464 (2021)[1]
Subsidiaries
  • GPA Malls
  • Multivarejo
Websitegpabr.com
Footnotes / references
[5][6][7]

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição, or GPA (from its former name 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 supermarkets, hypermarkets and home appliance stores. Its headquarters are in São Paulo city, and it is owned by Free Float.

The company is the second biggest retail company in Latin America by revenue and the second largest online retailer in Brazil. The company operates its e-commerce through Cnova, a subsidiary of Via Varejo.

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  2. ^ "Marcelo Pimentel, ex-Walmart, será novo presidente do GPA". Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Época Negócios. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Brazilian retailer GPA's CEO resigns". Reuters. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Relatório Anual 2021". GPA RI (in Brazilian Portuguese). SEC. 16 May 2022. pp. 12, 14, 40, 41, 42, 74, 75. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Board of Directors and Board of Executive Officers" Archived 16 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine, GPA. Retrieved on 17 September 2013.
  6. ^ "CIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUICAO", B3. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Results"[permanent dead link‍], Grupo Pão de Açúcar. Retrieved 7 March 2017.