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Grupo Sanborns S.A. de C.V. is a retailing arm of the Carlos Slim-run Grupo Carso that includes the namesake Sanborns restaurant and junior department store chain, Mixup music stores, iShop Apple/electronics stores, Sears department stores in Mexico, and until October 2023, Mexico's sole Saks Fifth Avenue store.
Modern multistory Sanborns department store in Mexico City with the facade of a 19th-century home being used as an entrance area. Sanborns is a chain of stores with a format combining a restaurant with a junior department store, with locations across Mexico and dates to 1903.
Grupo Carso S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican global conglomerate company owned by Carlos Slim.It was formed in 1990 after the merger of Corporación Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa.
On 26 February 1947, the first Sears in Mexico was opened in Colonia Roma, Mexico City (now the site of the Plaza Insurgentes mall) by Sears, Roebuck and Co. [3] [4]. In the initial three days after opening, approximately 110,000 customers visited the store, with total sales reaching about $600,000.
Sanborn maps, maps of U.S. cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries, published by The Sanborn Map Company Daniel Alfred Sanborn , surveyor and founder of Sanborn Map Company Grupo Sanborns , a large restaurant chain in Mexico, owned by business magnate Carlos Slim Helú
Illustration of the Chase & Sanborn building at 87 Broad St., Boston, Massachusetts. Chase & Sanborn Coffee is an American brand of coffee created by the coffee roasting and tea and coffee importing company of the same name, established in 1864 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Caleb Chase (1831-1908) and James Solomon Sanborn (1835-1903). [1]
1994: In association with the commercial chain of French origin Carrefour, the first Carrefour store in Mexico was opened, in what was the Hiper G branch on Av. Eduardo Molina in Mexico City, thus marking Carrefour's incursion into the Mexican territory. 1997: Grupo Gigante breaks ties with the French retail chain Carrefour.
Sanborn held a monopoly over fire insurance maps for the majority of the 20th century, but the business declined as US insurance companies stopped using maps for underwriting in the 1960s. The last Sanborn fire maps were published on microfilm in 1977, but old Sanborn maps remain useful for historical research into urban geography. The license ...