C&A

This article is about the clothing retailer C&A. For other uses, see C&A (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Canda.

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.

C&A

Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	B3: CEAB3 (only the unit in Brazil, C&A Modas SA)
Industry	Retail
Founded	1841 (1841) (in Sneek, Netherlands)
Founders	Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer
Headquarters	Vilvoorde, Belgium Düsseldorf, Germany
Number of locations	1290 (2022)
Area served	Much of Continental Europe, Brazil, plus China and Mexico via licenses
Key people	Giny Boer, CEO of C&A Europe
Products	Apparel/footwear specialty
Number of employees	50,000
Parent	COFRA Holding AG
Website	www.c-and-a.com

C&A store in Sneek, Netherlands

C&A store in Berlin, with the Swissôtel Berlin on the upper floors

C&A Barcelona, Pelai 54, Can Damians Bldg.^{(ca, es)}

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.