Soriana
Organización Soriana is a Mexican public company and a major retailer in Mexico with more than 824 stores. Soriana is a grocery and department store retail chain headquartered in Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The company is 100% capitalized in Mexico and has been publicly traded on the Mexican stock exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), since 1987 under the symbol: "Soriana". Overview Soriana was founded in 1968 by Mexican entrepreneurs and brothers, Francisco Martín Borque, Francisco and Armando Martín Borque, in Torreón, Coahuila. The company currently, as of 2013, operates under the brands Soriana, Clubes City Club, Hipermart, Mercado Soriana, and Super City (store), Super City. Super City is the company's convenience store division brand. It operates supermarkets and department stores for consumer and wholesale markets. Soriana competes primarily with H-E-B, La Comer, Chedraui, S-Mart and Walmex. Soriana emphasizes that it is Mexican-owned and operated. It i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chedraui
Chedraui (Chedraui Group) is a publicly traded Mexican grocery store and department store chain which also operates stores in the U.S. in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada under the banner name El Super and stores in Texas under the banner name Fiesta Mart. It is traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the symbol CHEDRAUI. History Chedraui was founded in 1927 in Xalapa, Veracruz, by Lebanese immigrant Lázaro Chedraui Chaya and his wife Ana Caram. They founded towards 1920 a haberdashery in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. Originally the business was called the Port of Beirut, clearly showing its origin, but for 1927 would adopt the name ''House Chedraui: the Only One to Trust''. In 1971 it opened the first supermarket in Xalapa, Veracruz. In 2005 it bought 29 supermarkets from Carrefour in Central and Southern Mexico. Chedraui's primary competition includes large grocers and hypermarkets such as Soriana, Walmart and Comercial Mexicana. Accordi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clubes City Club
Clubes City Club is the wholesale club of Mexican grocery store Soriana founded in 2002, in this same year it opened the first club in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, in Fundadores Square, that also has a Soriana store. As of 2024 it has 40 stores. History On 17 July 2002, Tiendas Soriana began to implement its multi-format strategy and with this the price club format was created under the name ''City Club''. Like Tiendas Soriana (its owner), its first branch was opened to the public in the city of Torreón, Coahuila, where the brand would later begin to venture into various cities in the country, such as Monclova, Chihuahua, Saltillo, Colima, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Cancún, Pachuca and Villahermosa, among others. Likewise, in February 2004, City Club opened its first branch in Monterrey, Nuevo León (San Jerónimo). In 2008, after the purchase of 199 Gigante stores by Soriana on 6 December 2007, although of those 199 Gigante stores that the original company in Torreón bought, most ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hipermart
Hipermart is a Mexican hypermarket (supermarket) chain owned by the Soriana Organization. The chain opened its first stores in 1989 (San Pedro and Cumbres in Monterrey, and San Lorenzo in Ciudad Juárez). Later, the company opened new stores in Tecnológico in Chihuahua, Independencia and Oriente in Torreón, and Santa María in Monterrey. In 1995, the company was bought out by the Martin families from Torreón and Monterrey, who merged it into Soriana. Almost all the Hipermart stores have been renamed Soriana; only Independencia still operates under the original name. History Hipermart emerged in the 80s, when the brothers Francisco and Armando Martín Borque (at that time the owners of Soriana) had serious differences that led them to separate business, so Don Armando continued to lead Soriana with the right "Tiendas de Descuento del Nazas" (Sorimex), while Mr. Francisco Martín Borque traveled to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico to later create the Hipermart store ch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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La Comer
Comercial City Fresko, S. de R.L. de C.V. is a Mexican holding company of hypermarkets headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It operates the hypermarkets La Comer, City Market, Fresko and Sumesa, which have a strong presence in Mexico City and Central Mexico. Founded in 1944 as Controladora Comercial Mexicana, it reported revenues of US$3.6 billion for 2014. Controladora Comercial Mexicana was listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1991 and is a constituent of the IPC, the main benchmark index of Mexican stocks. In 2016 Controladora Comercial Mexicana was rebranded to La Comer after selling the brand to Organización Soriana. Formats As of January 4, 2016, the new company "La Comer" was born, successor to the original company founded in 1930, which intends to manage the four profitable formats of the company, identified as City Market, Fresko, Sumesa and the new entity, known as "La Comer". Unlike the previous company, it will not offer massive discounts but exclusi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Supermercados Gigante
Supermercados Gigante was a large supermarket chain in Mexico. The chain expanded north of the border as well, as it also had locations in predominantly working-class Mexican-American communities of the United States. The supermarket chain was owned by parent company Grupo Gigante, which also operates the restaurant chain Toks, and US retail chains such as RadioShack and Office Depot in Mexico. Supermercados Gigante competed with several other chains, such as Soriana, Comercial Mexicana, Chedraui, Wal-Mart, H-E-B, Falabella (retail store), Falabella, Cencosud and Distribución y Servicio, D&S. It was not uncommon to see Wal-Mart receipts around the store touting the fact that said items are cheaper at Supermercados Gigante. Supermercados Gigante in pop culture The chain appeared on the ''Ahí Viene Verónica'' film, and on miscellaneous TV Azteca shows. Store closures On February 28, 2006 Gigante closed some stores in Mexico (1 in Torreon, 7 in Monterrey, 1 in Matamoros, 2 in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Armando Martín Borque
Armando Martín Borque was a Spanish entrepreneur. He was born in Soria, Spain on April 15, 1921. But soon thereafter, at the age of 5, he arrived to the Comarca Lagunera. 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, 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, is one of the 31 states of Mexico. The largest city and State Capital is the city of Saltillo; the second largest is Torreón and the thi ..., the desert city where Soriana was founded. Sources Zocalo Saltillo See also * Francisco Martín Borque Spanish businesspeople Soriana 1921 births 2011 deaths Sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras. He married Ana María Bringas on February 15, 1949, and with his brother Armando Martín Borque, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana Organización Soriana is a Mexican public company and a major retailer in Mexico with more than 824 stores. Soriana is a grocery and department store retail chain headquartered in Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The company is 100% cap .... In 1999, Fernando and Ana María would go on to found the Innovasport chain selling athletic shoes, activewear and sporting goods stores, and from there the Innvictus brand (focused more intensely on sneakers), with, combined, more than 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wal-Mart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded in 1962 by brothers Sam Walton and Bud Walton, James "Bud" Walton in nearby Rogers, Arkansas. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 10,586 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 46 different names. Walmart is the List of largest companies by revenue, world's largest company by revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 list in October 2022. Walmart is also the List of largest United States–based employers globally, largest private employer in the world, with 2.1 million employees. It is a publicly traded family-owned business (the largest such business in the world), as the company ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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S-Mart
S-Mart is a Mexican grocery store chain in the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. S-Mart competes with Soriana and Wal-Mart. S-Mart opened its first store in Ciudad Juárez, then later expanded to 33 stores in Ciudad Juarez. S-Mart now has 38 stores in Ciudad Juárez, 8 in Chihuahua, 17 in Monterrey, 6 in Reynosa, 5 in Nuevo Laredo and 4 in Matamoros. Sponsor S-Mart is the shirt sponsor of the Liga MX team FC Juárez Fútbol Club Juárez, also known as Bravos de Juárez or simply Juárez, is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, that currently competes in Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football .... Supermarkets of Mexico Retail companies established in 1975 1975 establishments in Mexico Companies based in Ciudad Juárez {{supermarket-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |