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Sears expanded into Latin America and Spain starting with a small store in Downtown Havana, Cuba in 1942. Sears opened its first store in Mexico City in 1947; the Mexican stores would later spin off into Sears Mexico, now owned by billionaire Carlos Slim's Grupo Sanborns, which by the end of 2022 operated 97 stores across Mexico.
Soriana 1920s logo. The very first Soriana store. The Soriana company has its origins in 1905, the year in which Don Pascual Borque (from Soria, Spain) founded a fabric business and perfumery under the name 'LA SORIANA' in Torreón, Coahuila, later incorporating in 1920, a wholesale merchandise offer, which with this became a benchmark in terms of purchases and consumption in Torreón.
Colombia is a planned community founded in 1992 by the Mexican state of Nuevo León in the Anáhuac Municipality. It lies on the southern banks of the Río Grande, across from the U.S. city of Laredo, Texas. According to the INEGI Census, in 2010 Colombia had a population of 514.
It is known as the market in the city where one can find produce and goods from other countries in Latin America such as Colombia and Cuba, whose flags hang from many stalls, as well as from Yucatán in Mexico. [2] [3] It has been nicknamed "La Pequeña Habana" (Little Havana), and there are over 500 stalls in total. [4]
Suburbia is a Mexican chain of department stores now part of the El Puerto de Liverpool group and founded in 1970 in Mexico City.Its main activity consists of the sale of clothing, appliances, electronics and cell phones aimed at the middle and lower economic classes.
Oxxo was founded in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, in 1976. In the first stores, the only products sold were beer, snacks, and cigarettes. The success of the stores was such that the project kept growing and Oxxo built new locations rapidly, becoming ubiquitous in Mexican cities and towns.
Palacio de Hierro Polanco, Mexico City Inside of an El Palacio de Hierro store Art Nouveau stained-glass ceiling by Jacques Grüber at the downtown flagship (1921) [1]. El Palacio de Hierro (English: The Iron Palace) is an upscale chain of 16 full-line Palacio de Hierro department stores, 3 Boutique Palacio junior department stores, 2 Casa Palacio home stores, and 2 outlets located in Greater ...
An old house recently painted. Santa María la Ribera, Mexico. The colonia's borders are marked by the following streets: Avenue Ricardo Flores Magon to the north, Ribera de San Cosme to the south, Insurgentes Norte to the east and Circuito Interior to the west. It consists of 116 city blocks located just west of the historic center of the city ...