Tag Archives: retail
Brazil’s Real-Time Facebook Likes Posted by Rachel on May 7, 2012
C&A, a large retailer in Brazil, decided to try an experiment that combines social media and fashion in a mall in São Paulo. From Vila Mulher: Estamos sempre sendo bombardeadas com novidades fashion que acabam hipnotizando a gente para ficar sempre de olho no que há de melhor nas fast fashions. A C&A inventou mais…
Brazilian Retailers Punish Deforesting Ranchers Posted by Rachel on Jun 15, 2009
This week, Brazil’s three biggest retailers announced that they will not purchase beef from blacklisted ranchers in the Amazon. According to a recently released report from Greenpeace, certain ranchers in the state of Pará are responsible for deforesting the Amazon and are causing destruction at a rapid rate. In fact, the report shows that ranching…
Major Brazilian Retail Merger Announced Posted by Rachel on Jun 9, 2009
This week, the Brazilian retailer group CBD, which owns the Pao de Acucar supermarket chain, announced that it would buy electronics and home appliance store chain Ponto Frio. The merger makes Pao de Acucar the largest retail chain in the country, with annual sales estimated at 26 billion reais, overtaking the previous leader, French retail…