Nações Shopping to Receive Seven New Stores

By the end of December, Nações Shopping – the newest venture of the Almeida Junior chain – receives seven major brands that increase the mix of operations. La Brasa, Pizza Hut, Avatim, Botoclinic, Tabacaria Estoril, Bagaggio, Lojas Centauro, and Hope open to the public bringing the best trends of each segment for 2020.

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The La Brasa franchise chain brings novelties in the gastronomy sector. The famous Pizza Hut will arrive in full force as it is considered the largest pizza chain in the world. In the beauty and cosmetics sector, Avatim has gained space by presenting the inspirations in Brazilian biodiversity. Still in this segment, Botoclinic – which is the first aesthetic company specializing in the application of botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid fillers – will enrich and enhance the details of each person.

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For those who enjoy cigars, tobaccos, and pipes, Tabacaria Estoril is a space that is already standing out for the variety of items offered. Bagaggio arrives to complete the mix and provide an even wider range of travel products such as luggage, bags, briefcases, wallets, and accessories. Centauro, a reference brand in sporting goods, comes to expand the option with a complete line of products.

One of the first and best known lingerie brands in the country, Hope, will also make a difference at Nações. “Following the market news, where entrepreneurs seek new ways for their investments, Nações Shopping accelerates its commercialization of operations. For 2020, the anticipated news will be even cause even more impact,” states Julio Cesar Geesdorf, Marketing Manager.

Almeida Junior in the RD Summit: the company follows world-wide trends

Almeida Junior was present in the greatest marketing and sales event in Latin America, the RD Summit, which happened in Florianópolis in the beginning of November. There were 120 lectures, many of them international, which brought much content, connections and inspirations. The company’s marketing team followed everything closely and made a summary of the main trends indicated in the event.

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Experience

Marketing must be oriented to experiences that may take one to excellence, always with a genuine look to the users. Another point that was noted is about integration of platforms, improvements and adjustments with the latest technologies to attract, convert and captivate even more users.

The humanization of the relationships and of the contents generated by the companies was cited by some of the speakers. The age of the pasteurization of content is over. Corporations must really talk to their publics in a genuine way and bringing aggregating content.

The human capital of companies gained relevance in the themes. For this, it’s required that companies empower people; after all, everyone has something to contribute with. And, in the age of machines, of AI and Machine Learning, among others, people miss humanization. Chatbots that communicate through a simpler and more human language have much more conversion in the funnel than something which is robotized.

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Innovation

The innovation theme also pervaded many lectures. But, for purposes of simplification, the message was delivered: to innovate is something that is much more dependent on people than on tools and technology. It can be a new way of doing something that has always been routine in the company, and this depends on people. To achieve this, companies must create an internal environment and a mindset focused on innovation.

The speakers highlighted that great companies are much more concerned with behavior and culture than with the competition. It’s necessary to seek, anticipate, not just follow what everyone else is doing. It’s acceptable to make mistakes, but hard work must be substituted by intelligent work.

Finally, future is analytical. Decisions must be taken with grounds applied over data. Argumentation based on opinions and intuition are fated to end.

“The event brought us many great insights of tendencies in marketing and sales, but the main point was to verify that Almeida Junior is already treading a path that goes through many of these concepts, from technology integration to this humanized perspective towards people”, analyzes the Marketing and Digital Director of Almeida Junior, Rafael Almeida.

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Almeida Junior’s CEO is elected entrepreneur of the year

Almeida Junior’s CEO, Jaimes Almeida Junior, was elected Entrepreneur of the Year by the LIDE SC (Entrepreneurial Leaders’ Group of Santa Catarina). The award happened on yesterday’s night (28th) during the awarding ceremony of the Prêmio Líderes de Santa Catarina 2019 (Santa Catarina Leaders Prize 2019). The founder of the greatest shopping mall chain from Southern Brazil competed in the Entrepreneur of The Year category, along with two more businessmen, Luciano Hang, from Havan, and Rafael Kuerten, president of the Grupo Guga Kuerten (Guga Kuerten Group).

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In his speech after receiving the prize, Jaimes Almeida Junior thanked for the acknowledgement of the business community and emphasized Santa Catarina as a distinct state. “Homages like this one stimulate us to focus and to invest even more in our State”, he said.

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The founder of Almeida Junior also left a message for the entrepreneurs in this new moment for Brazil. “Take the advantage to surf the Catarinense wave. I have no doubts about our privilege to be here, sharing this small piece of paradise in Brazil”, he affirmed.

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