Lojas Riachuelo

Lojas Riachuelo S.A.

Company type	Private
Industry	Department store
Founded	1952
Headquarters	Natal , Brazil
Key people	Flávio Rocha (Chairman and CEO)
Revenue	US$ 1.9 billion (2017)
Number of employees	44,000
Parent	Grupo Guararapes
Website	riachuelo.com.br

Lojas Riachuelo (English: Riachuelo Stores) is a Brazilian department store company founded in 1947 in the city of Natal, Brazil. Currently, the company operates 302 stores.

The company its headquartered in Natal, and have a central office in São Paulo and has 3 distribution centers, in Natal and Guarulhos (São Paulo).

In 1979, the company was purchased by the Grupo Guararapes, the largest textile group in Latin America which also controls the Natal shopping center Midway Mall and the financial company Midway Financeira.

The Riachuelo's major competitors are Marisa, Lojas Renner, Cia. Hering and C&A

The company owns and operates an Embraer Legacy 650 aircraft (as of August 2016).^[1]