Cencosud growing

The Chilean retailer Cencosud increased its sales in the home improvement division by 4.1 per cent to CLP 1 226 bn in 2014. In Argentina, the biggest market for this business, the 42 Easy and eight Blaisten stores recorded sales of CLP 693 bn, a rise of 1.6 per cent compared with the previous year. The increase in like-for-like sales was 27.5 per cent. The 33 Chilean Easy stores saw sales increase by 3.7 per cent to 466 bn and like-for-like sales by 2.7 per cent. In Colombia, the number of Easy outlets grew to ten. Sales were up by 45.5 per cent to CLP 67 bn, but sales on a comparable store area declined by 3.4 per cent.