C&A
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Template:B3 (stock exchange) (only the unit in Brazil, C&A Modas SA)[1] | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1841 (in Sneek, Netherlands) |
| Founders | Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer |
| Headquarters | Vilvoorde, Belgium Düsseldorf, Germany |
Number of locations | 1290 (2022)[2] |
Area served | Much of Continental Europe, Brazil, plus China and Mexico via licenses |
Key people | Giny Boer, CEO of C&A Europe |
| Products | Apparel/footwear specialty |
Number of employees | 50,000 |
| Parent | COFRA Holding AG |
| Website | www |
C&A is a multinational retail clothing company, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany. It started in 1841. The company has about 1,300 stores in Europe and 300 stores in Brazil as well as websites for online shopping. It also licenses the C&A name for stores in Mexico and China, which are under different ownership.[3]
The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company COFRA Group. There are about 60 members of the family involved, since the 1990s including women.[4]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Dutch fashion retailer C&A, shareholders to raise about $445 million in Brazil IPO". Reuters. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ↑ "C&A sluit in jaar tijd bijna 70 winkels". RetailTrends (in Dutch). 14 October 2022.
- ↑ "Stores | C&A". www.c-and-a.com. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ↑ "Family business and the succession trap". Financial Times. 12 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.