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The award is the national recognition of the talent, competence, and commitment of companies with active management in the country for a better and more competitive Brazil.

 

ALMEIDA JUNIOR is the winner of the Leaders of Brazil 2020 Award in Santa Catarina. The announcement of the award carried out by LIDE Unidades, was made last night (12/14), in an online ceremony that brought together more than 300 businessmen from all over Brazil. The award is considered the greatest national recognition of the talent, competence and commitment of companies and executives operating in the country, for a better and more competitive Brazil. In the 2020 edition, the award is even more relevant due to the atypical scenario that the world has faced.

ALMEIDA JUNIOR was chosen in Santa Catarina for the launch of a bold and winning project: AJPLACE, the group’s marketplace that brings together tenants from the company’s six shopping malls, in addition to other national and international brands not yet present in SC.

In seven months, the company created and launched AJPLACE, an innovative platform for a marketplace that is already born large and has been preparing to consolidate itself as the largest online platform for shopping mall tenants in southern Brazil.

“Receiving this award in such a challenging year for any company in the world has an even more special meaning. The recognition consolidates our belief that innovation is essential and motivates us to continue this path of doing beyond the obvious”, says the company’s CEO, Jaimes Almeida Junior, who received the award.

Only 16 companies were awarded throughout the country. The companies were chosen by the Management Committee of each LIDE unit, in a remote voting. The committee is composed of business leaders from different sectors of the Brazilian economy.

“The design and launch of the AJPLACE project represent a revolution in Brazilian retail, with impact and value creation for millions of consumers. Certainly, this is one of the main and most relevant business highlights in the country in 2020 and represents the workforce, innovation, and pioneering spirit of the entire Santa Catarina market”, says Delton Batista, president of LIDE SC.

Grupo Almeida Junior has just announced another initiative to the market, AJ Realty, a company whose purpose is to incorporate buildings with disruptive projects exclusively around its six shopping centers. With expertise in building more than 700,000 square meters in seven shopping centers, Almeida Junior brings its construction know-how of over 30 years to AJ Realty.

The purpose of AJ Realty is to bring to clients and investors in the real estate market differentiated architectural projects with buildings connected to the six shopping centers of the Almeida Junior chain in Santa Catarina, providing residents with an exclusive experience with the coexistence between buildings and shopping centers in a “unique body”.

The first building will be launched in the coming months in Balneário Camboriú. It will be a residential one with the name THE SPOT ONE, connected to Balneário Shopping, one of the main shopping centers in the South of the country. With an innovative and exclusive architectural project signed by Manoel Dória, and interiors by architect Roberta Zimmermann, the development will provide its residents with an innovative living experience.

“It took over two years of studies to define the right product for THE SPOT ONE, where we sought inspiration and references with what is most modern and cosmopolitan in the world to bring a new way of life,” says the company’s CEO, Jaimes Almeida Junior.

The great differential of the building is the connection with Balneário Shopping, which offers a complete mix with national and international brands, the best of gastronomy, cinema, fashion and design.

AJ Realty will present THE SPOT ONE later this month in December in a stand located on the upper floor of Balneário Shopping.

To learn more about the new company and The Spot One project, visit: www.ajrealty.com.br

 

The group delivered 12 devices to hospitals in cities where there are malls

In addition to helping save lives in cities where there are malls, the action of the Almeida Junior group to donate 12 mechanical respirators to hospitals in Santa Catarina was recognized by ADVB/SC. The recognition took place at the Citizen Company Award ceremony this Thursday, November 26, in a hybrid event  The award has been closed only to award winners and guests, and the public can follow it online, through live streaming on ADVB/SC platforms.

The Empresa Cidadã Award honors and awards Santa Catarina companies that make social responsibility their best example, product and result. Besides strengthening private social investment, the award is a tool for transformation and state development.

Almeida Junior’s contribution to fighting the coronavirus pandemic received honorable mention. In September, 12 respirators, imported directly from Germany, models Dräger Savina 300 were donated to hospitals in the Metropolitan Region of Florianópolis – one to Hospital Regional de São José and one to the Instituto de Cardiologia de Santa Catarina; in Joinville – one respirator to the Hospital São José and one to the Hospital Hans Dieter Schmidt; in Blumenau – one respirator for the Hospital Santa Isabel, one for the Hospital Santa Catarina, one for the Hospital Santo Antônio and one for the Hospital Municipal Misericórdia; in Balneário Camboriú – two for the Hospital Municipal Ruth Cardoso; and in Criciúma – one for Hospital São José and one for the Unimed Criciúma.

The choice of hospitals that received the respirators was made together with the mayors and public authorities of each city where the Almeida Junior enterprises are located.

Additionally developing strict care and safety protocols inherent to the Covid-19 pandemic period, the action has collaborated decisively for the communities in the regions where its enterprises are located.

In the photo, Almeida Junior’s CAO, Marcelo Monteiro, receives the  the Company Citizen Award.