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Grupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retail corporation founded in 1950 by Hugo Salinas Price. The company currently operates over seven thousand points of contact across Mexico, United States , [ 5 ] and Central America, [ 6 ] through two business divisions: commercial and financial. [ 7 ]
DolarToday was founded on May 18, 2010. It is headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States.Prior to the election of Nicolás Maduro in 2013, DolarToday was the second most popular exchange rate reference in Venezuela, behind Lechuga Verde.
In 1999, Elektra acquired 94.3% of the capital of Salinas y Rocha, a store chain founded in 1906 by Benjamín Salinas Westrup, [6] through an auction. To capitalize on the e-commerce sector, Elektra restructured its online store in 2017, transforming it into an e-commerce platform. [7]
The international dollar (int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$. , Intl$. , Int$ ), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$ ), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time.
He studied at the Wharton School from University of Pennsylvania, at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and law from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Elektra began as a factory assembling electronic appliances for the Salinas y Rocha chain, a national retailer of appliances. Hugo ...
Waldo's (officially Waldo's Dólar Mart de México S. de R.L. de C.V., Waldo's L.L.C.) is a privately held company operating three chains of retail stores. The namesake chain Waldo's consists of more than 800 discount stores across Mexico as of May 2023, with a merchandise selection similar to that of a dollar store in the United States ...
The Junta de Gobierno produced by the July Revolution (Revolución Juliana, July 9, 1925) wished to create a central bank, despite violent opposition. There were then six banks of issue: del Ecuador, Commercial y Agricola, de Pichincha, Credito Agricola e Industrial, del Azuay, and the recently opened (1920) Banco de Descuento.
As on the first US flag, the stars and stripes stand for the 13 original states of the union. The eagle holds a ribbon in its beak reading "E PLURIBUS UNUM", a Latin phrase meaning "Out of many [states], one [nation]", a de facto motto of the United States (and the only one until 1956). Both the phrases "E Pluribus Unum" and "Annuit coeptis ...