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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.
The namesake Sanborns chain began in the early 20th century as a transplant of the American coffee shop to Mexico City. As of 2021, there were 197 Sanborns across Mexico, from Tijuana in the northwest to Cancún in the east. [1] Almost all Sanborns branches have sit-down restaurants and usually a cocktail bar as
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.
19.0 0.7 18.8 5.5 Conglomerate: 7 1118 Inbursa: Mexico City 4.1 0.9 25.9 10.2 Finance 8 1230 Grupo Elektra: Mexico City 5.4 0.8 14.1 12.7 Conglomerate 9 1306 Grupo Bimbo: Mexico City: 15.0 0.3 13.4 10.1 Food processing: 10 1419 Arca Continental: Monterrey 8.3 0.5 12.1 10.0 Beverages 11 1508 El Puerto de Liverpool: Mexico City: 7.0 0.6 8.9 8.5 ...
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
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 ...
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