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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....
Jan 72 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...
Dec 8, 20243 min read


Colombia: Tiendas Ara receives US$120 million loan from IFC for logistics expansion
Discount Retail Chain Tiendas ARA, got a sustainability-linked loan of up to US$120million from the International Finance Corporation...
Nov 25, 20242 min read


Colombia: How Tiendas Ara revolutionized the Colombian market
Discount Retail Chain Tiendas Ara revolutionized the Colombian market in just 11 years. In a decade, Tiendas Ara has managed to position...
Aug 4, 20244 min read


Research: Colombian household shopping habits have changed: 9 out of 10 prefer to shop at discount stores such as D1 or Ara
Essential products in the family shopping basket, such as milk, oil or toilet paper, among others, are part of the products that families...
Apr 11, 20243 min read

Colombia: discount keeps on growing rapidly
The evolution of discount stores in Colombia is growing swiftly. In the meanwhile, also the 3rd discount player, Isimo, is aiming for 600...
Jun 6, 20231 min read

Colombia: In less than 15 years, hard discount stores revolutionized the supermarket business.
Discount Retail Chains D1, ARA, Olympic or Jumbo, increase their competition in Colombia to serve consumers looking for the lowest...
May 11, 20236 min read

Portugal: Jerónimo Martins' profits grow 59% between January and March
Jerónimo Martins, owner of discount retail chains ARA in Colombia and Biedronka in Poland, saw net income rise across the group to 140...
May 4, 20233 min read


Colombia: Ara discounter results over 2022
Discount Retail Chain Ara (owned by Jeronimo Martins), which is in Colombia and has just celebrated 10 years of operations. Ara said that...
Mar 24, 20231 min read

Portugal: Jerónimo Martins sees inflation boost profits
Portugal's second-largest retailer, Jerónimo Martins (owner of discount retail chains Biedronka in Poland and Ara in Colombia), has...
Mar 23, 20232 min read

Colombia: a new 1-billion-euro investment-boost for discounter ARA will create 3,000 jobs
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...
Mar 16, 20232 min read


Colombia: Discounters D1 and Ara making their position stronger amid top 35 Colombian companies
The hard discount stores D1 and Ara are strongly positioned among the largest companies in Colombia – despite the decline of discounter...
Nov 27, 20223 min read


Colombia: Discounter Ara opens its 1000th store in Cartagena, Colombia
After almost 10 years of presence in Colombia, through its brand Ara, the Portuguese company Jerónimo Martins opened this week its...
Nov 27, 20222 min read
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