Lojas Americanas
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Lojas Americanas is a Brazil
Brazil
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ian retail
Retail
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chain founded in 1929 in the city of Niterói
Niterói
Niterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeast region of Brazil. It has an estimated population of 487,327 inhabitants and an area of ², being the sixth most populous city in the state and the highest Human Development Index. Integrates the Metropolitan Region of Rio de...
, Rio de Janeiro, by Austrian Max Landesmann and Americans John Lee, Glen Matson, James Marshall and Batson Borger. Currently, the company has 578 stores in 23 Brazilian states and in the Brasília-area Federal District
Federal district
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Lojas Americanas (Portuguese
Portuguese language
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for American Stores) has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
and has 3 distribution centers, in Nova Iguaçu
Nova Iguaçu
Nova Iguaçu is a city in southeast Brazil in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. It was the state's second largest city until Mesquita was split off, and now is the fourth largest after São Gonçalo and Duque de Caxias. It lies northwest of the city of Rio de Janeiro, on the...
(Rio de Janeiro), Barueri
Barueri
Barueri is a Brazilian city in the state of São Paulo located in the northwestern part of the Greater São Paulo metropolitan area. The population in 2006 is estimated to be 265,549, the population density is 4,149.2 per km² and the area of 64 km²....
(São Paulo) and Recife
Recife
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(Pernambuco)
It is controlled by three Brazilian billionaires: Jorge Paulo Lemann
Jorge Paulo Lemann
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, Marcel Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira, the same trio that drives the AmBev
AmBev
Ambev formally Companhia de Bebidas das Américas is a subsidiary of global brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev and is the biggest brewery in South America and the fifth in the world...
subisidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev
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, GP Investments
GP Investments
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, América Latina Logística and other groups. The network sells over 80 thousand items of four thousand different companies.
In January 2007 Lojas Americanas acquired the Brazilian operations of the network of video rental Blockbuster for R$ 186.2 million and adapted to store the model Americana Express.