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During this year, major national retailers modemakers continue speeding up the pace, with a focus on their foreign operations will take a controlling weight in total revenues in view of local reforms and domestic consumption situation. The challenges are varied.
A while Chilean retailers are expanding their presence in Latin America, and this year will accelerate the stride, with a focus on their foreign operations will take a controlling weight in total revenues in view of local reforms and the internal modemakers situation consumption.
The retailer of families Solari, Cuneo and Del Rio, has now 43% of its sales outside the fourth quarter of last year after buying the chain home improvement and construction modemakers Maestro in the Inca market, including to Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Brazil. But with his onslaught in Uruguay by Sodimac, the figure would exceed 45%, without discarding surprise with a new country.
One transaction that has best left to Falabella is Colombia, where its retail department store revenues expanded 15.2% and its area of home improvement and construction Sodimac 13.9%. This is due to the strong increase in sales in the same premises.
In the case of Banco Falabella in the nation coffee, a steady increase is observed in loans in recent quarters, accounting modemakers for 17% increase in financial income of the group's operations in the country.
In Peru, revenues from the retail business of its department stores grew 17% in 2014, while 27.5% Tottus its supermarkets and home improvement 110.3% for the acquisition of Master. modemakers
The progress made in the Inca retail operations is explained by higher sales area in the period since the slowdown in consumption observed in recent quarters affected the income index, same store Tottus even managed to increase and gain share.
In Argentina, the Falabella retail revenues at department stores fell 1.4%, hit by the situation in the country, although Sodimac rose 18.7%. In Brazil, after its entry taking control of the chain of home improvement and construction Dicico, sales decreased 3.1%, disrupted by a lower level of economic activity. modemakers In fact, only the margins of the Latin American giant fell for the company.
The holding of Horst Paulmann, meanwhile, has a number of challenges ahead in the region, where its revenues outside Chile and account for over 60% of global. After multiple acquisitions of supermarkets abroad -business it means of its total sales, they have not had the results modemakers expected by the group.
In Brazil, this division had an increase modemakers of only 0.9% in same store sales in the latter part of 2014, which in any case was an advance on contraction of 3.3% in the same period of 2013 by transformations applied signature. The EBITDA of this nation to Cencosud, however, fell by 97%.
Colombia has also been a tough nut to crack for the company, where its EBITDA fell 17.5% in the fourth quarter 2014. However, it has shown significant improvements reflecting the strong retail environment, modemakers for its supermarkets grew 4.3% terms of retail and area of home improvement and construction Easy is also increased 4.3%.
Peru is the country that best behaved for Cencosud, with a significant increase in EBITDA of 53.6% and a rise in the activity of its supermarkets 4.3%. In Argentina, has done well despite the difficult economic situation in the country, an increase of 17.8% in EBITDA, 28.7% in their retail chains in terms of retail and 26.6% for Easy .
The chain Calderón family, has been gradually taking steps abroad, and their sales beyond national borders represent 31% of the total. The last chips put in Colombia, a country that produces negative modemakers EBITDA modemakers in 2014 by the immaturity of their shops open, although this meant an improvement compared to 2013.
Peru, however, has shown positive modemakers results modemakers for the firm. The retail business modemakers EBITDA grew 21.3% in the fourth quarter due to increased sales, following the addition of four stores, which was accompanied by an improvement of 0.66 points PERCENT
