Who owns Cemaco?
Cemaco is owned by Corporación Favorita (Ecuador, BVQ: SLU), which has owned the brand since 2014.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Corporación Favorita — Informe Anual 2025, Corporación Favorita C.A, 1 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Corporación Favorita C.A. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador, Quito
- Origin
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Founded
- 1986
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › General merchandise own brands
- Parent ticker
- BVQ: SLU
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Cemaco
Cemaco is a Costa Rican homeware retailer created in 1986 and part of Corporación Favorita since 2014, selling decoration, linens, personal care, storage and appliances. It renewed its shelving and store layout in 2025 and ran a campaign called Cema Canje offering half price on new mattresses in exchange for donating an old one, with the donated mattresses going to organisations working with vulnerable older people.
Ownership timeline of Cemaco
- 2014 – present Corporación Favorita [1] reported
Where Cemaco sits in Corporación Favorita
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Corporación Favorita
Corporación Favorita controls 16 brands on Brandtree, 16 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in general merchandise own brands, and who owns them
The 162 brands in general merchandise own brands on Brandtree belong to 68 owners. The largest is JD Sports, with 15; Corporación Favorita has 12.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Blacks | JD Sports | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Innom | Reitan Retail | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| B&Q | Kingfisher | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Anko | Wesfarmers | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Basualdo | Cencosud | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Bike Republic | Colruyt Group | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Glans | Hagar | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Arenal | Sonae | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
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About the owner: Corporación Favorita
Corporación Favorita is a publicly listed company headquartered in Quito, Ecuador, founded in 1952. Brandtree records 16 brands under its control, and it is listed as BVQ: SLU.
Corporación Favorita is Ecuador's largest retailer, and it runs a different store for almost every kind of shopping rather than one banner that does everything. It began in 1952 as Bodega La Favorita, a small shop selling staples in central Quito, opened the country's first self-service store as Supermercados La Favorita in 1957, and in 1976 became the first company in Ecuadorian supermarket retailing to open its capital to the public; it now has around 19,700 shareholders. Beyond supermarkets it runs bookshops, hardware stores, toy shops, pharmacies, homeware and technology chains, together with industrial operations in bakery, meat, stationery, catering, renewable energy and waste, a telecoms and e-commerce services arm, and sixteen shopping centres. It trades in Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Peru, and holds more than 99 per cent of Grupo Rey, the Panamanian supermarket, convenience store and pharmacy group it bought into in 2019.
Corporación Favorita: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇨🇷 Cemaco and other Costa Rican brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 13 brands that began in Costa Rica. 3 of them (23%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Cemaco among them.
- Almacenes AV — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Liberty Costa Rica — Liberty Latin America 🇧🇲
- Pet's Market — Grupo Melo 🇵🇦
- SANSA — SANSA 🇨🇷
- Coronado — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Delactomy — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cemaco?
The parent company of Cemaco is Corporación Favorita, a publicly listed company headquartered in Ecuador.
Is Cemaco Costa Rican or Ecuadorian?
Cemaco originated in Costa Rica in 1986, but it is owned today by Corporación Favorita, which is headquartered in Ecuador. So Cemaco is a Costa Rican-origin brand under Ecuadorian ownership.
Since when has Corporación Favorita owned Cemaco?
Corporación Favorita has owned Cemaco since 2014.
Is Cemaco still owned by Corporación Favorita?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Cemaco is still owned by Corporación Favorita. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Corporación Favorita — Informe Anual 2025 — Corporación Favorita C.A., Annual report, published 1 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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