Armando Martín Borque was a Spanish entrepreneur. He was born in

Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 (INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial population. ...

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on April 15, 1921. But soon thereafter, at the age of 5, he arrived to the

Comarca Lagunera The Comarca Lagunera or La Comarca de la Laguna ("region of lagoons") is a region of northern Mexico occupying large portions of the states of Durango and Coahuila, with rich soils produced by periodic flooding of the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers. ...

. Living in Torreon, he began working for his uncle Don Pascual Borque in the family's cloth store La Soriana. In 1968, together with his brother,

Francisco Martín Borque Francisco Martin Borque (1917-1998) was a Mexican businessman. He was born in Soria, Spain on August 9, 1917, and died on December 24, 1998, in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port on October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with ...

, he began the expansion of the local family business and thus founded what is today known as Organización Soriana, the second largest retail chain in Mexico. Armando Martin Borque died on July 20, 2011 in Torreon,

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

, the desert city where Soriana was founded.

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