Companhia Brasileira de Distribui o announced a reorganization of its structure and Peter Paul Estermann takes office as CEO of Via Varejo. Libano Barroso, so far CEO of Via Varejo, takes the newly created position of Vice President of Operations of GPA. During the month of October, L bano Barroso and Peter Estermann will lead together the processes of integration in GPA and Via Varejo.

The creation of the Vice Presidency of Operations stems from advances verified in the processes of integration between the companies of the group and starts to gather all the areas and projects with scope common to all the group's businesses. Ahead of the Vice Presidency of operations, Líbano Barroso will lead the areas of strategic planning, commercial, logistics, IT, customer relations, shared purchase and services center and marketing. Besides these activities, it is part of this structure the conduction of the synergies fronts, promoting the exchange of best practices between all the company's businesses, including the Group Exito.