What happened to large stores pumped in Aarapu, Messbla, Mapin and Jumbo Eletro: 80s
No. The 20th centuryHighlighting the 1970s and 1980s, when there is no computer to buy with some clicks, go big Department Store – famous Magazines – It is almost like a particular event.
Most families went together to visit the corridors and find the moments in the giants ArapuãWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. MessblaWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. MapinWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. Arapuã E. Jumbo Electro.
This phenomenon has lost strength over the years 40 years ago. Many have been in turmoil for the financial and understanding of this sector and closed the doors. Others recently returned with online activities and tried to restore brands.
Exam has separated the five main stores that bombed the bombings in the last decades of the last century and tells you what happened to each of them. Good from time to time! And good shopping.
Arapuã
It was in the 1970s and 1980s Arapuu shops It is one of the largest retail networks in the country. The company has more than 220 stores around Brazil, selling, mostly accessories.
In 1996, when other retailers were already facing crises, Arapuu’s billionaire’s income also beat 2.2 billion RiyasAs reported in the test at the time. Net profit reached 119 million Riyas.
However, this business is still suffering from one of the evils affecting big retail companies: a high -time sales default. With this, the debts have also been overcome 1 billion Riyas.
In 1998, the company agreed, a device that was equivalent to judicial recovery today. From the agreement, he tried to rebuild the business by raising the product portfolio. But failed to balance economically again.
Since then, it has entered the legal Inbroglyo, which has been pulled for 22 years. In July 2002, the court decided in the first case to decree the bankruptcy of Arapua. The company reversed the decision until it reached STJ in 2009. There, the Superior Court of Justice decided to decree to the bankruptcy of the company. But amidst the decision and the campaign of the judgment, Arapus went to the restoration. The lenders appealed and the STJ only ruled the case in 2020, when the company’s bankruptcy was taken.
Messbla
For decades, there is no way to talk about the 1980s department stores without mentioning the market leader Messbla. The Rio de Janairo began in 1912, and this network was at least the largest retailer in the country, at least in the early decades of the last century.
In the 1980s, it has 180 points of sale and deposits nationwide, with huge iconic stores in many states such as Sao Palo, Rio Grande Do Sul and Rio de Janeiro.
In units, it is common to say that employees are almost everything. “We didn’t sell the coffin,” they played. It has accessories, clothes, machinery and bedding. In 1986, the company was elected by the Year Exam.
No. At the beginning of the 1990sHowever, the popularity of unique retailers, those who sold more cracked products made a big sector Magazines Shake. Entrance Shopping malls Through the country they also collaborated for the company’s crisis. It was added to the hyperinflation in the late 1980s, which caused many companies to increase their production stocks, which climbed the debt.
In 1995, the Messbla came to Konkordata, which was a recovered device, now updated for judicial recovery. At that time, the process included 930 million rhyas with tax authorities, states, union and about 2,000 suppliers. The process lasted for two years. In 1997, he was sold to businessman Rarko Mansur, he tried to get out of the company, focusing on prices and focusing on the lower classes. But it didn’t work. The company took bankrupt in 1999.
In 2010, the brand re -umption started through online stores, but the project did not move forward. In 2022, founders invested nearly 500 thousand Riyas to re -activate the Marcel Jeronimo and Ricardo Viana Empesa website. Today, Messbla works as a market on the Internet.
Mapin
A year after the birth of Messbla in Rio de Janeiro, she was born in the main competitor Sao Paulo Mapin. The brand became a reference to Brazilian retail in the nearly 20th century and brought many news to the Brazilian market. It is her, for example, the first stores with glass showcases on the facade.
Like Messbla, it is known for iconic stores. The largest of them was opened in 1939 at Ramos de Azewo Square in Sao Palo.
In the 1940s it was sold to businessman Alberto Alves Philho, he changed the shop. Until then, only the sale of imported products, which also traded national goods, was creating credit and popular.
In the 1980s, it reached the highest level, and also overcome competitors like Messbla. In 1983, it was recognized as one of the major retail companies in the decade by Exam.
However, financial problems follow the rhythm, similar to the opponent. In the early 1990s, the company purchased Sears, which is another important network. However, the growth is larger than the expected torch, and the internal accounting has been produced uncontrolled. In 1995, it almost accused the weakness 20 million Riyas.
In 1996, the company was sold to businessman Rarko Mansur, who also bought the messbla for the next year. The executive worked to turn the company’s business model into a franchise, but it didn’t work. The company took bankrupt in 1999.
In 2010, Red Marabraz bought the rights to use the Mapin brand for 5 million Riyas at a public auction. From there, he started the e-commerce that worked to this day.
Ultralar
Ultralar was born in 1956 as a Brazilian Home Gas Company’s arm – later called it UltragasOne of the major gas suppliers in the country. The initial idea of the store is to sell gas stoves and promote this type of product in Brazil, at a time, selling cylinders.
The operation has earned a scale and started selling other types of production, one of the country’s leading retailers, listed in the stock market. There was a lot of growth, in 1974, the company launched its first hypermarket, Ultralar Ultralar, and later sold to the Carrofor.
In the 1990s, due to business rebuilding, Ultra Group began selling businesses related to major operation, sales and gas distribution. With this, the Altralar was sold to the Susa Wendx group (which was also controlled by the National Integration Victor Malzoni Dutchman Wendx), which also controled the Sandiz and Sears stores. He was then sold to businessman Paulo Dose Santas.
In the late 1990s, the company faced competition from specialty stores and failed to modernize. There is no space in the market, ended its operations in 2000 and was then 17 points of sale Casas Bahia bought.
Jumbo Eletro and EletroBraz
In the last decade, another successful retailer Eletroobraz was born in Sao Paulo Bros in the 1940s. She began to solve radios and small accessories, but over time, she began to sell new products. With this, a huge seven -story department store has been fixed in the same address, similar to radios.
In the following years, he decided to bet on the supermarket business. In 1971, he opened his first hypermarket in the vicinity of Sao Palo’s Agua Branka. Five years later, he was facing administrative and financial problems and sold operations to the Poi de Akar Group.
With this, the supermarkets of the Eletrioobraz have become sugar bread and hypermarkets, jumbo electromes. A few years later, the company decided to change the name of the company, and the Jumbo Eletro became additional. In 2021, the company decided to leave the hypermarket sector, and 71 additional stores were sold to Assa.
