Coto Supermarkets

Coto Supermarkets
Coto C.I.C.S.A.
Type Private company
Founded (1970)
Headquarters Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key people Alfredo Coto, sole proprietor and President
Products Supermarkets
Wholesale
Logistics
Credit cards
Revenue increase US$ 2.3 billion (2009)[1]
Employees 14,000 [2]
Website www.coto.com.ar

Coto is an important supermarket chain based in Argentina.

Overview

Childhood memories of the downtown Buenos Aires butcher shop opened by Joaquín Coto, an immigrant from Galicia (Spain), inspired his son, Alfredo, to open his own, in the Boedo neighborhood, in 1970. Building on the customer base he and his wife, Gloria, had cultivated through wholesale delivery, Coto owned a slaughterhouse and 34 retail outlets by the time he opened his first supermarket in Mar de Ajó, a seaside tourist destination, in 1987.[3]

Front view of Coto supermarkets style

Coto Supermarkets expanded rapidly during the 1990s, and by 1996, netted over a billion US dollars in sales. The company opened five shopping malls from the late 1990s onwards (each anchored by a Coto hypermarket), beginning with those in Lanús and Temperley, as well as a wholesale distribution and production center in Monte Grande.[4] The acquisition of the Norte chain by French retailer Carrefour in 2000 left Coto as the largest, domestic supermarket retailer in Argentina, and Citi remained third overall (behind Carrefour and Chilean retailer Cencosud).[5]

Coto's most significant competition (and that of Argentine supermarkets in general) is that of the growing number of Asian Argentine grocers, which by 2010 numbered around 8,000, and whose combined earnings approached those of the Coto chain.[6]

The Coto group enjoys a 17% market share nationwide (reaching 28% in the metro Buenos Aires area), and operates 95 supermarkets, 16 hypermarkets, 5 shopping malls, 3 slaughterhouses, the distribution center, and a logistics unit of 183 trucks.[2] The company launched the Tarjeta Shopping credit card in 1996, and the TCI store card, in 2005; the two cards were used by over 540,000 clients in late 2007.[7]

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