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The company has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro and has 3 distribution centers, in Nova Iguaçu (Rio de Janeiro), Barueri (São Paulo) and Recife (Pernambuco) It is controlled by three Brazilian billionaires: Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira, the same trio that drives the AmBev subisidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, GP Investmentos, América Latina Logística and other groups. The network sells over 80 thousand items of four thousand different companies. In January 2007 Lojas Americanas acquired the Brazilian operations of the network of video rental Blockbuster for R$ 186.2 million and adapted to store the model Americana Express. |