Pouso Alegre is a municipality in southern region of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, with a population of 152,549 in 2020. The area of the municipality is 543 km². It lies in the valley of the Sapucaí River.
The Brazilian Navy is the naval service branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces, responsible for conducting naval operations.
Daslu was an upmarket multi-brand boutique-department store in São Paulo, Brazil. The boutique is known as the "fashion designers mecca" of Brazil as it houses more than 60 labels plus 30 store-in-stores and is the place where Brazilian socialites, ranging from multi-millionaire soccer players to conglomerate bigwigs shop for the latest accessories and clothing. It is also a renowned shopping institution in South America for being a "purveyor" in chic and exclusive couture. The brand "Daslu" is a reference to the nickname "Lu" that was common to both partners who founded the store.
Bompreço is a chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets in Brazil. Its name means "good price" in Portuguese. As of March 2004, Bompreço is owned by Walmart.
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição, doing business as GPA, is the biggest Brazilian company engaged in business retailing of food, general merchandise, electronic goods, home appliances and other products from its supermarkets, hypermarkets and home appliance stores owned by the French conglomerate retail group Casino. Its headquarters are in São Paulo city.
CompreBem was a supermarket chain in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, in Brazil, owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar.
Tec Toy S.A., trading as Tectoy since late 2007, is a Brazilian toy and electronics company headquartered in São Paulo. It is best known for producing, publishing, and distributing Sega consoles and video games in Brazil. The company was founded by Daniel Dazcal, Leo Kryss, and Abe Kryss in 1987 because Dazcal saw an opportunity to develop a market for electronic toys and video games, product categories that competitors did not sell in Brazil at the time. The company stock is traded on the Bovespa.
Penalty is a Brazilian sporting goods manufacturer that was established in 1970 in São Paulo. The brand is operated by its owner and creator, Grupo Cambucci.
The Midway Mall, located in the city of Natal, is the largest shopping center in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and one of the largest in the Northeast Region if Brazil. It has a floor space of 231 acres (930,000 m2) distributed over three levels. The mall offers 300 shops, among them 13 anchor stores and seven satellite cinema multiplex network Cinemark stadiums with a capacity of 2,140 seats. The six-level parking garage accommodates 3,500 vehicles. The property belongs to the Guararapes Group, which also owns the network of department stores Riachuelo.
Lojas Renner is a Brazilian department store clothing company, headquartered in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was the first Brazilian corporation with a hundred percent of shares traded on the Stock Exchange and listed on the Novo Mercado, the highest amongst the different levels of corporate governance in São Paulo Stock Exchange (B3). Its main competitors are Lojas Riachuelo, C&A, and Hering.
Lojas Americanas is a Brazilian retail chain founded in 1929 in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, by the Austrian-Brazilian Max Landesmann and Americans John Lee, Glen Matson, James Marshall and Batson Borger. Currently, the company has 1,945 stores in all 26 Brazilian states and in the Federal District. Lojas Americanas is the sixth largest retailer in Brazil.
Companhia Zaffari is the tenth largest Brazilian company that has a chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets in Rio Grande do Sul, and São Paulo.
Máquina de Vendas is the one of largest Brazilian retail company together with GPA, Viavarejo, Lojas Americanas and others. The company was founded in 2010 through the merges of two retail companies, being the Belo Horizonte-based Ricardo Eletro and Salvador-based Insinuante.
The Boulevard Shopping Feira de Santana, was inaugurated on April 23, 1999 in the municipality of Feira de Santana, with the name of Iguatemi, but in October 2008 had its name changed to Boulevard Mall.
Mappin was a traditional department store in Brazil, based in São Paulo, with the official name of Casa Anglo-Brasileira S/A. With origins in 1774 in the city of Sheffield, England, it was later brought to Brazil by the brothers Walter and Hebert Mappin.
Cacau Show is a Brazilian chocolate manufacturer based in Itapevi, São Paulo. The company was founded by seventeen-year-old Alexandre Tadeu da Costa in 1988 from his sales of chocolate Easter eggs using door-to-door catalogs.
Flávio Gurgel Rocha is a Brazilian former federal deputy and businessman, current CEO and Chairman of Lojas Riachuelo, one of the largest retailers in the country.
RD is the largest drugstore company in Latin America by revenue and market capitalization. With its headquarters are in São Paulo, it has more than 2.500 stores in 24 Brazilian states.
Iron Studios is a Brazilian company based in São Paulo specializing in the manufacture of collectible statues. The company works with property licenses from Disney, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Star Wars. It produces models in 1/10th scale and larger models in 1/6th and 1/4th scale. The statues are made from Polystone, a high-density resin that offers resistance to heat and humidity. Real fabric or die-casting is used to produce other details.
US$ 1.9 billion (2017)
