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Type
  
Key people
  
CEO
  
Michael Klein (2009–)

Industry
  
Retail

Area served
  
Founder
  
Number of locations
  
745

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Products
  
Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewellery, beauty products, electronics, toys, tools, sports equipment, appliances, housewares

Founded
  
Headquarters
  
Parent organizations
  
Via Varejo, Atento Brasil S/A.

Profiles

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Casas Bahia (English: Bahia Houses) is a Brazilian retail chain which specializes in furniture and home appliances. It was founded in 1952 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, by Polish immigrant Samuel Klein, who began his career as a peddler selling products to migrant workers from the Brazilian Northeast. The chain is currently owned by Grupo Pão de Açúcar, which purchased it in December 2009.

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Operations

Casas Bahia, unlike many of its competitors, does not rely on an internet presence as a cornerstone of its strategy—only in February 2009 it launched its online store, pressed by an increasing number of online sales in Brazil.

Rather, Casas Bahia makes the majority of its profit by charging interest on installment plan purchases, making it possible for low-income customers to purchase products which they would not be able to pay off in a single payment.

Another sales technique of the store is to locate cashiers in the back of the store, which requires clients to pass by all the products on the floor each month in order to pay their next monthly payment. Salespeople also consider the lines at the cashiers appropriate potential sales targets (which they refer to as bocas de caixa "open cashiers").

As of 2004, the company employed 22,000 people and was generating $2 billion in profits. By 2010, it had more than 500 stores in eleven states (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and even Bahia), besides the Federal District.

As of March 2016, the company has 745 stores in Brazil. The state with the largest number of Casas Bahia stores is São Paulo, with 324 stores.

References

Casas Bahia Wikipedia