The story
By the end of 2006, the operations of the company included 65 Jumbo hypermarkets, 165 Santa Isabel supermarkets; 249 Disco, Vea and Jumbo supermarkets; 60 Easy home improvement stores; 36 Paris department stores; 27 shopping malls and 52 offices of Banco Paris bank, totaling a sales area of 1.8 million square meters, or 19,375,038.75 square feet. It has more than 4.3 million active credit card accounts, issued under the brand Tarjeta Cencosud (in Chile, Peru and Argentina), Tarjeta Cencosud Colpatria (Colombia) and Cartão Cencosud Bradesco (Brazil).
By the end of 2007, several new stores had been opened in Chile, Argentina and Peru, and the company acquired Wong supermarkets, the largest retailer in Peru, and GBarbosa, a Brazilian retailer.
In August 2011, Cencosud announced the acquisition of Johnson department stores.
In 2022, Cencosud acquired a majority controlling share in The Fresh Market, a chain of specialty grocery stores in the United States. At the time of the announcement, The Fresh Market operated 160 stores across 22 states. In September 2025, Cencosud acquired the remaining 33% stake of the company for $295 million.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cencosud, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
