Lojas Americanas

"John H. Patterson —National Cash Register Simon Marks —Marks & Spencer Sol Price —FedMart & Price Club Les Schwab —Les Schwab Tire Centers Herb Kelleher —Southwest Airlines Chester Cadieux —QuikTrip F. Kenneth Iverson—Nucor 3G partners —Garantia, Lojas Americanas, and Anheuser-Busch InBev"

"The trio’s timeline 1971: Jorge Paulo Lemann buys the Garantia broker dealer in Rio, with financing from private individuals 1976: Garantia earns a banking license with the Brazilian Central Bank 1982: Garantia partners acquire a controlling stake in Lojas Americanas, a retailer. Beto becomes its CEO 1989: Garantia partners acquire a controlling stake in Cervejaria Brahma, a beer brewing company. Marcel becomes its CEO 1998: Banco Garantia is sold to Credit Suisse First Boston. Most of its executives won’t work with the trio anymore on a full-time basis (although many remain co-investors in many of their deals) 1999: Brahma merges with (i.e., buys) Cervejaria Antartica, forming Ambev, Brazil’s largest beer brewing company 2004: The trio enters an agreement with Belgian giant Interbrew’s controlling shareholders where the two groups become controlling shareholders of Inbev, the resulting company 2008: Inbev buys Anheuser-Busch, America’s most iconic brewery, on the brink of the subprime mortgage crisis, forming Anheuser-Busch Inbev, AB Inbev, for short 2010: 3G Capital, the trio’s private equity firm, does its largest deal to date, buying Burger King from another private equity fund…"