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Continente belongs to Sonae Distribuição, the biggest retailer in Portugal. The hypermarket Continente chain is in spread all over Portugal as well on Madeira and in Azores. The supermarket chain Continente Modelo, formerly named just Modelo, has also a nationwide presence. Sonae Distribuição, SGPS, SA, is a subsidiary company of Sonae SGPS. ==History== Sonae Distribuição started in 1985 by the merger of two large retailers, Modelo and Continente. Modelo was owned by the Sonae holding, while Continente was the Portuguese and Spanish operation of the French retailer Promodès, known by the ensign Continent elsewhere. Thus, it was part-owned by its French competitor, Carrefour, who sold their stake to Sonae for €345 million on 16 November 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Carrefour announces the divestment of its stake in Modelo Continente and the acquisition of 13 hypermarkets in Poland from Ahold. )〕 In 2008, Carrefour sold its Portuguese retail ventures existing under the Carrefour ensign to Sonae. Continente used to have one branch in Dubai, which was later purchased by Carrefour. The Continente ensign disappeared from Spain after the 1999 Carrefour-Promodès merge. In April 2011 Angolan business woman Isabel dos Santos signed a joint partnership between her own Condis enterprise and the Portuguese Sonae group, for the development and operation of a retail trading company in Angola. They opened the first Continente supermarket brand in 2013 in Angola.〔(Portuguese group Sonae authorised to open hypermarkets in Angola ) Aicep Portugal Global, retrieved 27 December 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Continente (Supermarket)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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