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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
Part of the facade, with azulejos. It is known that the original construction was built in the 16th century, and that it is actually made up of the union of two stately mansions, of which the one that was originally located on the south side was the one that belonged, together with the so-called Plazuela de Guardiola to a man named Damián Martínez. [6]
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
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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 ...
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]