CENCOSUD on Santiago Stock Exchange

Cencosud

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Multinational retail company

Cencosud S.A. is a publicly traded retail company based in Chile. It is 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.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1960Founded1

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  • TickerCENCOSUD on Santiago Stock Exchange1
  • Industryretail1
  • HeadquartersSantiago1
  • Websitewww.cencosud.com
  • Legal formsociedad anónima1
  • Listed onNew York Stock Exchange, Santiago Stock Exchange (CENCOSUD)1
Oficinas centrales Cencosud, Las Condes, Santiago 20260731
Photo: Carlos Figueroa Rojas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Cencosud S.A. is a publicly traded retail company based in Chile. It is 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.2

Corporate structure

Cencosud sits at the top of its group. 15 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Cencosud reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

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

Products and brands

  • hypermarket

Listed on Wikidata.1

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

From Wikipedia’s article on Cencosud, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1960Founded Founded1

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