C&A

C&A is a multinational retail clothing company, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany.  It started in 1841. The company has about 1,300 stores in Europe and  300 stores in Brazil as well as websites for online shopping. It also licenses the C&A name for stores in Mexico and China, which are under different ownership.

The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company COFRA Group.  There are about 60 members of the family involved, since the 1990s including women.

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Category:Companies of the Netherlands
Category:Clothing companies
Category:Companies of Belgium
Category:Companies based in Düsseldorf
Category:1841 establishments in Europe
Category:19th-century establishments in the Netherlands