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Colombia: Insights from Hard Discount 2024

The Discount Retail Chain phenomenon keeps brands, traditional supermarkets and local shopkeepers (tiendas) awake at night in Colombia....

Dec 8, 20243 min read

Colombia: Discounters will exceed 4,200 stores soon

Discount Retail Chain D1 initially appeared in 2009, and little by little two more competitors joined that, together, have changed the...

Nov 25, 20242 min read

Discount Retail Chain Tiendas ARA, got a sustainability-linked loan of up to US$120million from the International Finance Corporation...

Aug 4, 20244 min read

Discount Retail Chain Tiendas Ara revolutionized the Colombian market in just 11 years. In a decade, Tiendas Ara has managed to position...

Apr 11, 20243 min read

Essential products in the family shopping basket, such as milk, oil or toilet paper, among others, are part of the products that families...

Jun 6, 20231 min read

The evolution of discount stores in Colombia is growing swiftly. In the meanwhile, also the 3rd discount player, Isimo, is aiming for 600...

May 11, 20236 min read

Discount Retail Chains D1, ARA, Olympic or Jumbo, increase their competition in Colombia to serve consumers looking for the lowest...

May 4, 20233 min read

Jerónimo Martins, owner of discount retail chains ARA in Colombia and Biedronka in Poland, saw net income rise across the group to 140...

Mar 24, 20231 min read

Discount Retail Chain Ara (owned by Jeronimo Martins), which is in Colombia and has just celebrated 10 years of operations. Ara said that...

Mar 23, 20232 min read

Portugal's second-largest retailer, Jerónimo Martins (owner of discount retail chains Biedronka in Poland and Ara in Colombia), has...

Mar 16, 20232 min read

More investment in Colombia! The group behind Tiendas Ara reported that over the next five years they expect to open 3,000 new jobs and...

Nov 27, 20223 min read

The hard discount stores D1 and Ara are strongly positioned among the largest companies in Colombia – despite the decline of discounter...

Nov 27, 20222 min read

After almost 10 years of presence in Colombia, through its brand Ara, the Portuguese company Jerónimo Martins opened this week its...