(Bloomberg) — French grocer Carrefour SA submitted a proposal for a take-private of its Brazilian subsidiary Atacadao SA.
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Atacadao said in a statement that its management had received a proposal from Carrefour — its controlling shareholder — that would make it a wholly owned subsidiary. The statement confirmed an earlier report by Bloomberg News that Paris-listed Carrefour was working with advisers on a deal to acquire the Atacadao shares that it doesn’t already own.
Carrefour is offering 7.70 Brazilian reais each for Atacadao’s shares, representing a 19% premium to their closing price Monday. Carrefour owns nearly 70% of Atacadao, also known as Carrefour Brasil, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Peninsula, the family office of the Diniz family and Atacadao’s second largest shareholder, intends to participate in the transaction and adhere to the proposal that allows it to transform its shares in the Brazilian company into shares of Carrefour in France, according to a separate statement from Carrefour. Peninsula owns about 7% of Atacadao’s shares, according to Carrefour. Peninsula also owns 8.9% of Carrefour’s stock, the data from Bloomberg show.
Shares of the Brazilian unit, which went public in 2017, jumped as much as 13% Tuesday before trading was halted in Sao Paulo. After trading resumed, the stock soared as much as 19% and closed up 10% to 7.10 reais a share, giving the company a market value of almost 15 billion reais ($2.6 billion).
Under the proposal, Atacadao would be delisted from Novo Mercado market segment and would become a category B issuer, according to its statement. Atacadao shares would be merged into a Brazilian company wholly owned by Carrefour, with each common share of Atacadao replaced by one class A, B or C share issued by that company.
Bloomberg News reported in November that Carrefour was in the early stages of studying ways to boost its valuation, more than three years after Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. abandoned talks to merge with the company.
–With assistance from Michelle F. Davis.
(Updates with Peninsula participation in fourth paragraph)
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