Cencosud is one of the largest and most prestigious retail conglomerates in Latin America with operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. It uses a successful multiformat strategy that today gives employment to almost one hundred thousand people.
Brands under Cencosud
34 Jumbo hypermarkets, 120 Santa Isabel supermarkets; 239 Disco, Plaza Vea, Super Vea y Mini Sol supermarkets; 50 Easy home improvement stores; 23 Paris department stores; 20 shopping malls and 49 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 brands Más Jumbo, Más Easy and Más Paris
Mission
“To be the most profitable and prestigious retailer in Latin America, based on our excellent quality of service, our respect for the communities with which we live and the commitment of our team of collaborators to the basic tenets of our company: vision, challenge, entrepreneurship and perseverance.”
Operations
Its operations extend to businesses such as supermarkets, home centers, department stores, shopping malls and financial services, making it the most diversified company for Latin American capitals in the Southern Cone and with the greatest square meter offer. Cencosud also boasts other lines of business that complement its central operation, which include an insurance brokerage, family entertainment centers and a travel agency. All these receive excellent recognition and prestige among consumers, being well known for their quality, high level of service and customer satisfaction.
Main Objective
Cencosud’s main objective is to become the largest retailer in Latin America, bringing its maxims of quality of service, excellence and commitment to hundreds of thousands of clients. To achieve this task the company has been focused on an ambitious plan of internationalization since the late 1980s. With this base and thirty seven years of