Nova Casas Bahia is a major Brazilian retail company founded in 2010 through the merger of retail companies Casas Bahia

Casas Bahia

Casas Bahia is a in Brazilian retail chain which specializes in furniture and home appliances. It was founded in 1957 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, by Polish immigrant Samuel Klein , who began his career as a peddler selling products to immigrants from the Brazilian Northeast...

 owned by Klein family, Ponto Frio and the electronics stores Extra Eletro  both owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar and the furniture business of Grupo Pão de Açúcar. Currently Grupo Pão de Açucar owns 52% of Nova Casas Bahia, Klein Family owns 47% and 1% from minority shareholders.

The company has 989 stores under distributed under the brands Casas Bahia and Ponto Frio .

The company operates retail online through the ist subsidiarey Nova Pontocom

Nova Pontocom

Nova Pontocom is the second largest Brazilian and Latin America online retail company after B2W Varejo. The company was created in 2011 from an association between Grupo Pão de Açúcar and Casas Bahia....

, a onlie retail company that was born by merger operations of e-commerce of Casas Bahia, Ponto Frio and Extra Hipermercados, a hypermarket chain owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar.