首页新闻资讯海尔智家签约巴西两大零售巨头,巴西家电市场迎来新变局丨Haier Signs Strategic Agreement with Two of Brazil's Leading Retail Giants
海尔智家签约巴西两大零售巨头,巴西家电市场迎来新变局丨Haier Signs Strategic Agreement with Two of Brazil's Leading Retail Giants
2026.09.08
来源:Haier Overseas微信公众号
Born in 1999 as a Stanford dorm-room plan to build "eBay for Latin America," Mercado Livre is now the region's largest e-commerce platform, worth ~$15B with 211M users. In 2016, Brazilian retail chain Magalu went digital, turning its 1,245 stores into pickup points and fulfillment hubs for online orders.
On September 5, Haier Smart Home signed strategic partnership agreements with both retailers in Paris — securing Brazil's largest online traffic pool and largest offline appliance network in one move.
Why it matters: Brazilian consumers rely heavily on installment payments and shop across offline experience and online price comparison; no single channel wins. Magalu covers 19 states with 1,245 stores, holds 30% of the refrigerator market, and gets 70% of store traffic online. Mercado Livre has 70M+ monthly active buyers — a third of the population — with ~6,000 searches and 9 transactions per second. Haier now has a dual-engine position.
With Magalu: co-developing hit products, innovating delivery, and upgrading end-to-end service — pairing Magalu's channel strength with Haier's premium smart products, using MagaLog logistics for integrated delivery and installation. A pilot already shipped: 1,428 premium units worth R$5.19 million.
With Mercado Livre: using it as the core e-commerce channel to scale mid-market volume while building premium brand awareness through its advertising and retail media — access to not just sales but data-driven user operations.
The bigger picture: Haier skips the cold-start of building traffic, embedding directly into Brazil's most mature commerce ecosystem — a leap from "channel expansion" to "omnichannel brand operations." With local AC and TV production lines already running, and refrigerator/washing machine capacity being planned, this deal completes the "local manufacturing + omnichannel sales + data-driven operations" loop. Globalization ultimately comes down to capability; Haier's heavy, operation-intensive model digs the deepest moat.