The story
The company was founded under the name JHS in São Paulo, Brazil in 1972 by brothers Fábio and José Roberto Auriemo and two other partners. The company focused on construction and real estate development at its inception. By 1990, JHS had split into two companies with Fábio Auriemo taking control of real estate market operations (JHSF Participações), and José Roberto Auriemo heading the other company (JHSJ).
In 2001, JHSF Participações expanded its business into the shopping center segment. The company developed the Shopping Metrô Santa Cruz in São Paulo, Brazil, which was the first mall in the country to have a subway station.
The company also became the majority shareholder of Fasano Group's hotels at that time.
In 2007, the company registered its IPO and began publicly trading. At the end of the same year, JHSF inaugurated the Fazenda Boa Vista development, a summer residential condominium with 12 million square meters, in the municipality of Porto Feliz, in São Paulo.
JHSF negotiated for Shopping Metrô Santa Cruz to be to sold to BR Malls in 2010. By 2016, Hemisfério Sul Investimentos Group had concluded the purchase of Shopping Metrô Tucuruvi. In 2014, JHSF inaugurated Catarina Fashion Outlet, the first outlet in Brazil in the luxury market. The mall is part of a project that includes São Paulo Catarina Executive Airport, the first private airport for executive aviation in the country. In the same year, Vice President Eduardo Camara took over as CEO and José Auriemo Neto became its chairman of the board of directors.
Camara remained in the position until February 2018, when he was replaced by Thiago Alonso de Oliveira, who remained in the position until the beginning of 2024. Augusto Martins took over as CEO of the company in February this year.
By 2017, JHSF had developed more than 6 million square meters of real estate projects.
From Wikipedia’s article on JHSF Participações, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4