Eki-Discount

www.ekidiscount.com.ar

Eki-discount is a leading chain of urban discount stores for groceries, household cleaning products and toiletries. Its value proposition is to maximize the proximity/price relation for urgent and/or periodic purchases. It aims at getting a significant share of the USD 5B grocery sales currently in the hand of traditional shops in the Buenos Aires area.

The company had 140 outlets at the end of 2006 and boosted sales of EUR 75M.

G Partners supported in the company from its first round in 1999 and currently manages a minority interest in the company held through the GRI holding in Luxembourg.