The Spanish Bäbler Font, who has the reins of the D1 stores since 2021, found a large location to install his office and that of his powerful team in the El Nogal neighborhood, one of the residential and also commercial sectors of more prestige in Bogotá. He is a neighbor of the Andean Shopping Center and the club that bears the same name and there is also the building where Valem operates, the business conglomerate of the Santo Domingo family and in a Penth House has the Alejandro Santo Domingo office when it comes to Bogotá. There is also the office of former president Juan Manuel Santos.
The building subjected to a expensive remodeling belonged to the Western Gringa oil company Petroleum Company (Oxi) and the investment that D1 is making is millionaire, according to the great profits that it has obtained in recent years. It is located in race 11 with 77 in front of Cai Oxy and a couple of blocks from Carulla.
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The Oxy that was one of the first foreign oil companies to arrive in the country forty years ago occupied the building until October 2020 when it sold its land assets, which included exploration and production fields in the Llanos basins, Magdalena Medio and Putumayo, to the Carlyle group, an organization that assumed them through the creation of a new company: Sierracol Energy.
-Bäbler Font, the CEO of D1 stores, is an executive of the major commercial leagues that has started the company that will now integrate an offer of products other than those of the market. On the first floor of the new headquarters there will be a store with a new format. All this is part of the competition with the Carulla, that the Calleja family, its new owners, are modernizing. You may also be interested as: El Salvadoran, owner of success, preferred Bogotá to Medellín to handle his commercial emporium
Bäbler Font was hooked by Santo Domingo and its partners after having worked in Aldi and managed to get the retail model to continue growing throughout Colombia, with the motto of low prices, its own marks and zero luxuries, focusing on the lowest strata, but also reached high strata as it will demonstrate with its great headquarters of El Nogal.
Since then the building had remained without occupants, but guarded by security guards, until the Spanish Bäbler Font decided to expand the stores in this strategic location where Carulla will compete to remain a few blocks. The building has four floors, will have the supermarket, warehouse and there will also be space space, a strategic location in the north of the city that will bring customers of Chapinero and the old country.
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