 Brazils GPA sees its wholesale unit Assaí reaching 50 billion reais 11.91 billion in gross sales by the end of 2022 from expected 30 billion reais this year, as the food retailer continues to organically expand its operations, its chief executive said on Wednesday. It plans 20 new stores per year in Brazil and will expand the chain to Colombia in 2020, CEO Peter Estermann told journalists in a press conference before a meeting with investors in Sao Paulo. It will be our first Assaí store outside Brazil, Estermann said. 