The story
1889: Salvatore Falabella opened his first great tailoring store on Ahumada Street, Santiago, Chile.
1937: Alberto Solari joined the company, transforming it into an important clothing store.
1958: Household products were introduced, laying the foundations for the first department store in Chile, and Ahumada Street became known as "Falabella Street".
1962: The first store outside Santiago was opened in Concepción.
1980: Falabella launched CMR, its own credit card and the first of its kind in Chile.
1990: Mallplaza opened its first shopping mall in Chile, Mallplaza Vespucio, in La Florida.
1993: Falabella entered Argentina and Sodimac entered Colombia.
1995: Falabella entered Peru by acquiring Saga.
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1996: S.A.C.I. Falabella goes public and its shares begin to trade on the Santiago Stock Exchange.
1997: Viajes Falabella and Seguros Falabella created.
1997: S.A.C.I. Falabella formed a partnership with The Home Depot in Chile, and acquired it four years later.
1998: Banco Falabella was formed, by acquiring a license from ING Bank Chile.
1999: Falabella.com launched internet sales in Chile.
2002: S.A.C.I. Falabella opened the first Tottus supermarket in Lima, Peru.
2003: S.A.C.I. Falabella and Sodimac merged, launching the first regional home improvement chain in Latin America.
2004: S.A.C.I. Falabella acquired the San Francisco supermarket chain in Chile.
2006: Falabella Retail entered Colombia with its first department store in Bogotá.
2007: Banco Falabella was launched in Peru.
2007: Aventura Plaza was launched in Peru.
2007: Sodimac acquired 60% of the Imperial home improvement chain in Chile.
2008-09: CMR formed a partnership with Visa in Peru and Chile. Then formed a partnership with MasterCard in Argentina and Colombia in 2011.
2009: Homy was launched in Chile.
2011: Banco Falabella was launched in Colombia.
2012: Mallplaza opened its first shopping mall in Colombia.
2013: S.A.C.I. Falabella entered Brazil by acquiring 50.1% of the Dicico home improvement chain.
2013: Móvil Falabella was launched in Chile.
2014: Sodimac acquired the Maestro home improvement chain in Peru.
2014: Hiperbodega Precio Uno was launched in Peru
2015: Sodimac entered Uruguay by opening its first two stores.
2015: S.A.C.I. Falabella opened its first two Sodimac stores in Brazil.
2016: S.A.C.I. Falabella was admitted into the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.
2016: Separation of Aventura Plaza S.A. in Peru. S.A.C.I.
2016: S.A.C.I. Falabella and Soriana signed final contracts to jointly develop Home Improvement (Sodimac) and Financial Services (CMR) businesses in Mexico.
2017: The first Falabella-Soriana credit card was issued in Mexico, and the company acquired 50% of Servicios Financieros Soriana S.A.P.I de C.V.
2018: in Peru the name "Saga Falabella" was deleted and the denomination changes simply to "Falabella" just like in the other countries.
2021: Falabella left Argentina.
From Wikipedia’s article on S.A.C.I. Falabella, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4