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- Updated Aug 21, 2026
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Casas Bahia: Samuel Klein’s Credit Empire and Its Hardest Reinvention
Retail as social finance: the carne’s genius, the conglomerate drift, and the turnaround’s credit-first thesis.
Americanas: The R$43 Billion Collapse That Rewrote Brazilian Governance
A century of retail royalty, years of invisible leverage, seventeen days to judicial recovery — governance’s Brazilian syllabus.
Mercado Livre: The Infrastructure Empire That Won Latin America
Twenty-five years of building what the region lacked — the commerce-fintech-logistics stack that rules Latin retail.
Magalu: The Store That Digitized Itself Into a Legend — and Through a Storm
Emerging-market retail’s digitization playbook — written in Franca, tested by Selic.