It began as a bookstore called Livraria do Globo, created in Porto Alegre, in December 1883, by Laudelino Pinheiro de Barcellos and Saturnino Alves Pinto.

The bookstore "Livraria do Globo" begun as in a little store located at "Rua da Praia" Number 268.

With a little business success, the bookstore started working as a copy and paperwork center, making bookbidings and other small services and the building where it was located underwent a slight remodeling.

[1] Its first branch store was created in Santa Maria, near the old ferryway center of Rio Grande do Sul.

In the 1940s, the bookstore company reached its top success, with three branch stores in Brazil's South Region and offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.